Marlene Dumas

Después de que una fiesta deje su casa destrozada, Miku está condenado a pasar resto del verano en la casa de campo familiar, donde sus padres evitan lidiar con su crisis de pareja. Pero la calma en el campo finlandés da un giro inesperado cuando Miku conoce a Elias. Los dos chicos no tienen nada en común excepto su edad y sus familias disfuncionales. Aun así algo los está uniendo.

A journalist (Liane Balaban) meets “Man of Today” (Paul Ahmarani) who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters. As an experiment to see if she can turn his pessimistic view around, the journalist sends him on a journey of enlightenment to prove that the future does matter. Travelling the globe, he finds himself in surprising encounters with great minds in the arts and sciences. Starting with an unexpected poetry reading and conversation with experimental poet Christian Bök, Man of Today engages with architect Shigeru Ban, activist Francis Dupuis-Déri, philosopher Alain de Botton, artist Marlene Dumas, novelist Rivka Galchen, leading scientists and a ghost. Will the journalist succeed in turning a cynic into an optimist? Will it matter? What can one person do?

S8 experimental short by Marlene Dumas, her only film.

A film about the artist Marlene Dumas: - There's no right way to portray or to understand someone. It's just an acknowledgment , not a denial of reality. Here are my paintings.