Big River Man
John Maringouin / US, 2009 / 100 min.
What makes humans seek out their physical limits? Guido van der Werve, an artist who regularly goes to extremes, selected the documentary Big River Man about an environmental activist swimming the length of the Amazon to accompany his retrospective at Eye.
Everyone said he’d lost his mind, yet Slovenian Martin Strel completed his self-appointed task of swimming the 5,000 km length of the Amazon river to draw attention to pollution and rainforest destruction.
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Director
John Maringouin
Production year
2009
Country
US
Original title
Big River Man
Length
100 min.
Language
English
Format
DCP
Part of
Guido van der Werve
In the world of Guido van der Werve, Romanticism, nature and the sublime are never far away. His films explore the futility of existence, yet they also capture its endless beauty.
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