Blue Orchids

Original Title: Blue Orchids

48' | 2017 (Completed)

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Director:	Johan Grimonprez
Writer:	Johan Grimonprez

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In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated at opposite ends of the same issue - the global arms trade.

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In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated at opposite ends of the same issue - the global arms trade. The stories of Chris Hedges, the former war correspondent of The New York Times, and Riccardo Privitera, a former arms and equipment dealer at Talisman Europe (now dissolved), provide an unusual and disturbing context for shocking revelations about the industry of war. While interviewing Privitera and Hedges for Grimonprez's recently released feature Shadow World (2016), it became clear that the two men were describing the same anguish and the same trauma, but from paradoxical perspectives. One has dedicated his life to unmasking lies and the other has built his life on lies. Both their personal and political histories gradually reveal the depths of suffering and duplicity, situating the arms trade as a symptom of a profound illness: greed.

Credits

Director
Johan Grimonprez
Writer
Johan Grimonprez
Editing
Dieter Diependaele
Photography
Nicole Mackinlay Hahn
Sound
Torston Goddon
Music
Karsten Fundal

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2017
Production status
Completed
Original title
Blue Orchids

Technical specs

Running time
48'
Available in
2D
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
stereo (2.0)
Available formats
DCP
Colour
Colour

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1000 Brussel
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T +32 488 467 117
info@zapomatik.com

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2017: Paradocs - IDFA (NL)

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Blue Orchids

synopsis

Credits

Director

Writer

Editing

Photography

Sound

Music

Format

Creation details

Type

Category

Production share

Genre

Year of production

Production status

Original title

Technical specs

Running time

Available in

Aspect ratio

Sound format

Available formats

Colour