To Stay Alive: A Method

To Stay Alive: A Method
Directed by Erik Lieshout
Arno Hagers
Reinier van Brummelen
Produced by Marc Thelosen
Screenplay by Erik Lieshout
Based on "To Stay Alive" by Michel Houellebecq
Starring Michel Houellebecq
Iggy Pop
Cinematography Reinier van Brummelen
Edited by Reinier van Brummelen
Production
company
Serious Film
Release date
  • 19 November 2016 (2016-11-19) (IDFA)
  • 2 February 2017 (2017-02-02)
Running time
 70 minutes
Country Netherlands
Language French
English

To Stay Alive: A Method is a 2016 Dutch documentary film directed by Erik Lieshout, Arno Hagers and Reinier van Brummelen. It is based on Michel Houellebecq's 1991 essay "To Stay Alive", about struggling artists, the role of the poet, and mental health problems. It features marginal artists as well as Houellebecq and the rock singer Iggy Pop, who reads from the original essay.

Production

Michel Houellebecq and Iggy Pop first met in 2009 after having admired each other's works for a long time. Houellebecq been a big fan of The Stooges since he was a teenager and Pop ended up recording two albums in French as a consequence of his encounter with Houellebecq. The director Erik Lieshout had first met Houellebecq when he interviewed him for Dutch television during the promotion of the novel The Possibility of an Island, and ended up directing Last Words, a behind-the-scenes documentary for Houellebecq's own film adaptation of the novel.[1]

To Stay Alive: A Method was produced by Serious Film with co-production support from AT-prod and VPRO. It was completed in April 2016.[2]

Release

The film was screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on 19 November 2016.[3] It is set to be released in Dutch cinemas on 2 February 2017.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Macnab, Geoffrey (2016-11-22). "When Iggy Pop met Michel Houellebecq: They admitted that they were die-hard fans of one another". The Independent. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  2. ↑ "To Stay Alive - a Method". Eye Internaitonal. Film Institute Netherlands. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  3. ↑ "To Stay Alive - A Method". International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  4. ↑ "To Stay Alive: A Method". Filmtotaal. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
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