Written, directed and filmed by
Renzo Martens

Edition
Jan De Coster

Editing consultant
Eric Vanderborght

On-line facilities
Condor

Sound editor
Raf Enckels

Sound mixing
Federik van de Moortel

Production
Renzo Martens Menselijke Activiteiten
Peter Krüger / Inti Films

With the support of
The Netherlands Film Fund, The Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Nationale Commissie voor Internationale Betrekkingen en Duurzame Ontwikkeling, The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Prins Bernard Cultuur Fonds,VPRO, LICHTPUNT, YLE, TSR, ORF

Renzo Martens (°1973) has been working for a number of years on a series of three films that attempt to interpret the world through the function the world has for the viewer. A project that wishes to explore the relation between viewer and viewed, rather than subject itself to it, it cannot allow itself to re-present. These films are thus not so much an attempt to represent external phenomena, as an attempt to embody the inner functioning of these phenomena. The first film in the series, Episode I, is a recording of Martens’ activities in Chechnya. It was first presented in late 2003 at the Fons Welters Gallery in Amsterdam. A clip from Episode III was shown in 2008 at De Appel in Amsterdam, at Manifesta 7 and at the first Brussels Biennale.