Afgelopen week won regisseur Rosa Ruth Boesten met Master of Light de Grand Jury Award voor beste lange documentaire op South by Southwest (SXSW).
Master of Light ging tijdens South by Southwest in wereldpremière binnen de Documentary Feature Competition. De documentaire vertelt het verhaal van Amerikaanse kunstenaar George Anthony Morton en is geproduceerd door One Story Up (Verenigde Staten) en het Nederlandse documentairemakerscollectief Docmakers.
Het juryrapport:
“In both substance and form, Master of Light is a gift. The earnest and gifted painter George Anthony Morton embeds viewers in his world as he struggles to render his mother — both on the canvas and in his psyche. Boesten disabuses us of static tropes about America’s merciless drug war and about contemporary art. With astonishing intimacy, the film’s visuals build an artful bridge between two- and three-dimensional realms that are deeply rooted and utterly transcendent. Put this painting of film in a museum, next to a Rembrandt and a Morton.”
De Dutch Directors Guild feliciteert DDG-lid Rosa Ruth Boesten en het hele team met deze geweldige prestatie!
Bron: SXSW | Beeld: Still Master of Light door Jurgen Lisse