Blue Orchids
Johan Grimonprez België 2017 48 min.
A double portrait of two experts representing the two opposite extremes in the playing field of global arms trade. Blue Orchids shockingly unveils how greedy the war industry actually is.
DOCVILLE 2024
Artist in focus Johan Grimonprez
The stories of former New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges and of Riccardo Privitera, former arms dealer for the now defunct Talisman Europe Ltd, form a paradoxical parallel. Both show signs of the same traumas, but from a completely opposed perspective. The one spent his time debunking lies, the other made those very lies his foundations. Grimonprez introduces the arms trade as a symptom of a serious illness: greed.
Two shorts by Johan Grimonprez are screened before the main film:
Raymond Tallis | on tickling - 2017, 8min
every day words disappear | Michael Hardt on the Politics of Love - 2016, 15min
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Johan Grimonprez
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