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Convento

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A Dutch family leaves Holland and transforms a 400-year-old monastery into a home, workshop and nature preserve.

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Steve Dollar Wall Street Journal 12/12/2012
Against the sacred and time-tossed setting, the artist's creations cast an uncanny spell: Inanimate yet alive, abandoned as scrap or carrion, yet newly born. Go to Full Review Eric Kohn IndieWire 12/12/2012
B+
The real star of this show is not the family but the otherworldly objects they churn out. Go to Full Review Matt Singer IFC.com 12/12/2012
This unortho-doc ultimately doesn't need to explain much more about its subjects' motivations because its images provide their own explanation. Go to Full Review Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film 02/10/2013
4/5
Alterman's camera languidly soaks up the landscape, lingering long enough so that we can appreciate both the beauty of the setting and the surprising dialogue created between it and Christiaan's artwork. Go to Full Review Noah Lee Film Threat 12/12/2012
3/5
A complex melding of the natural and the machine, his robotic art pieces are at once beautiful and yet things nightmares are made of. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Jarred Alterman

Director

Jarred Alterman

Executive Producer

Evan Meszaros

Producer

Lawrence Dolan

Original Music

Jarred Alterman

Cinematographer

Jarred Alterman

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Movie Info

Synopsis A Dutch family leaves Holland and transforms a 400-year-old monastery into a home, workshop and nature preserve.
Director
Jarred Alterman
Producer
Evan Meszaros
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 9, 2017
Runtime
50m