What if you could hire someone to BE you? This artist actually tried it.
How much of your identity can you outsource? In an attempt to escape her workaholism, visual artist Karina Beumer hires multiple substitutes for herself. What do the substitutes gain from assuming someone else's identity? And what does it cost Karina? It's about losing control and finding yourself.
Direction
Beumer turns her own life into conceptual art.
Writing
Questions that'll haunt you for days.
Director
Karina Beumer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Beumer belongs to a Dutch tradition of 'relational aesthetics' where the artwork IS the social experiment.
The film quietly interrogates gig economy logic: if we can outsource driving and cleaning, why not being?
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