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Actor Erik Lieshout

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To Stay Alive: A Method 2016 ( 5.4)

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.

The Room 2001 ( 6.5)

A man explains how he was obsessed when he was younger by a mysterious room and an extraordinary rarefied piano music that drifted through its open window during the night. Forty years later, returning to his home town after having spent most of his life abroad, in "a bunch of different places", he asks one of his friends to rent a room for him. As chance would have it, it turns out to be the same room which attracted him when he was a young man. What drew him again to this room?

Actor Erik van Lieshout

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Rotterdam-Rostock 2006

Erik van Lieshout is on a bike trip from Rotterdam to Rostock. In abruptly shifting scenes filmed with a wobbly hand-held camera, Rotterdam–Rostock processes impressions of a society which Lieshout approaches with a seemingly carefree attitude that is paired with touristic voyeurism and unscrupulous directness.

Beer 2019

Erik van Lieshout wonders how you can be free to be politically critical and uncompromising as an artist, in a Western arts tradition, if you receive a major cash prize from a multinational. In his case by winning the Heineken Prize for Art. Do you accept the prize? And, if so, what do you do with the money? Indirectly he reflects on the historical position of the white male in both the arts and the capitalist system.

Art Blasé 2021

Erik van Lieshout was invited to contribute to the ‘Art is a lie that just don’t die’ exhibition that was to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Art Basel art fair, which now faces unexpected developments. Van Lieshout inimitably outlines the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the art world.