Artist Rory Pilgrim (Bristol, 1988) received the Prix de Rome 2019, the oldest and most prestigious award in the Netherlands for artists under the age of 40, from the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen Máxima. Pilgrim received this award for his new film The Undercurrent (2019-ongoing). The award comes with a 40,000 EUR cash prize and a work period at the American Academy in Rome. The international jury unanimously selected Rory Pilgrim, an artist who has shown himself as a master in making films that combine cinematography, music, content, form and topicality. In the fifty-minute film The Undercurrent he transports the visitors to the world of a group of young people in the American city of Boise (Idaho). The film features beautiful cinematography,
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