FILM

An van. Dienderen was commissioned in 2000 by the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts to make the film Site, a topographic portrait of José Besprosvany, based on the testimonies of immigrant artists, as part of the project D’ici et de là-bas/Van hier en ginder (From here and there). What’s identity? To what extent does origin determine the work of an artist? An van. Dienderen analyses the matter by means of a visual anthropological portrait of José Besprosvany. This choreographer of Mexican-Jewish-Slavic origins tests out his multiple identity through the personal trajectory of his work. The mechanism of cultural exclusion proves to be active in the arts as well.