Synopsis
How does creativity change when death is near? What counts when you must go? Diagnosed with a brain tumour and given three more years to live, the Romanian filmmaker Razvan Georgescu decides to overcome the solemnity of the issue and to explore the realm between Life and Death in order to meet some of its prominent inhabitants: famous artists who have had a traumatic brush with mortality and survived or who only have three more years to live. Death and illnes – motor for creativity? Is the creative spirit in everything we do the armour against oblivion? TESTIMONY: a film about finding beauty in the face of death, about the healing qualities of art. A roadmovie full of twists and turns. It’s not about watching bodies surrender to disease. It's a film about life before death. It will make you think and it will make you laugh. "A very well constructed and inspiring film on the healing nature of art" (Tue Steen Muller in "Filmkommentaren"/Denmark) “TESTIMONY- This documentary transforms in a surprising way a very hard and frightening private situation into a constructive and thoughtfull journey about life on this earth. The director succeeds in giving his own illness a philosophical approach to time, life and art and he reminds us of the simple message that we have to live when we are alive.This outstanding programme tells the story of life and death and life again.” (Jury of PRIX EUROPA, Berlin 2008)
