Director Mathieu Wijdeven’s great-great-grandfather is the Surinamese artist G.G.T. Rustwijk (1862-1914). In his work, he was an early critic of the colonial regime. How is he remembered in present-day Suriname?
How far ahead of his time was the enlightened Surinamese Luci? This is the starting point of this archive documentary, which is Mathieu Wijdeven’s debut. Luci was the pseudonym under which Wijdeven’s great-great-grandfather, the Surinamese artist G.G.T Rustwijk (1862-1914), made a reputation at the time. Rustwijk was a remarkable man who, as a Surinamese person of colour shortly after the abolition of slavery, stood out because of his criticism of the colonial regime and his multidisciplinary art. Eventually he sunk into oblivion. But what was Rustwijk’s 'light' and what remained of it?
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