Stealing Rodin

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In the style of Exit Through the Gift Shop, Stealing Rodin is a critical and humorous statement about Art and the market around it. The documentary traces the story of Luis Onfray’s artistic and criminal act. In 2005, the Palace of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile, hosted a collection by celebrated French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The morning after the exhibit’s opening, museum guards were dismayed to find that one of the Rodin pieces had gone missing. This shocking discovery sparked a frantic search involving the museum’s staff, and soon the Santiago police. Meanwhile, public curiosity was sparked and the desire to witness the empty pedestal on which the masterpiece should have been made the Rodin collection the most visited exhibition in the history of Chile.

Interviews with famous artists such as Guillermo Frommer and Adrián Valenzuela, lawyers, cops, and theorists help us relive this infamous and daring event, while art student Luis Onfray himself explains the personal and artistic reasons for pulling off Chile’s greatest art theft.

"Transgression and art are totally compatible. Stealing Rodin is one of the most complex and narratively rich documentaries of its time." — Q.V. Hough, Vague Visages

"A not-to-be-missed for visual arts." — Arte Limite

"Robar a Rodin can either be a hilarious, off-the-wall tale meant to mercilessly troll its audience, or it can be an important statement on the nature of art and our relationship to it...one of the most ingenious documentaries to come along in a while." — Ernesto Zelaya Miñano, Screenanarchy

"Both lines, the police stuff and the comedy, worked as an interesting way to talk as a background of topics like contemporary art, its function, the definition of art and the artists role in societies." — Cristóbal Valenzuela Berríos, Director

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Main credits

Valenzuela Berríos, Cristóbal (film director)
Valenzuela Berríos, Cristóbal (screenwriter)
Onfray Fabres, Luis Emilio (on-screen participant)
Furché Rossé, María Luisa (screenwriter)
Rioseco, Sebastián (screenwriter)
Paz González, María (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, David Bravo; editor, Juan Eduardo Murillo; music, Jorge Cabargas.

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Palace of Fine Arts, museum, Auguste Rodin, Luis Onfray, Guillermo Frommer, Adrián Valenzuela, art theft, exhibit, sculpture, Rodin Case, performance, ; documentary; doc; culture; visual arts; crime; arts; sculpture; art; Spanish; Chile; "Stealing Rodin"; theft; crime;