Johan Grimonprez (Firm)
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed experimental documentary tracing the history of airplane hijacking as portrayed by mainstream television media. Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam** and **Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival**.
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this short film, British neurologist Raymond Tallis argues that consciousness is not an internal construct, but rather relational. Through the intriguing notion that humans are physically unable to tickle themselves, Tallis explores the philosophical notion that we become ourselves only through dialogue with others. Shouldn’t Descartes’ first tenet “I think, therefore I am” rather be: we dialogue, therefore we are? A view underscored by...
3) What I Will
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An anthropologist, who tries to decode corporate culture, gets obsessed with the story of a parachutist who died after his equipment malfunctioned. In the parachutist’s finitude - caught in an ultimate meditative moment of plunging to an approaching death - the anthropologist sees a sudden and catastrophic voiding of the webs that hold and cradle us all.
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Arabic
Description
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
6) Blue Orchids
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
BLUE ORCHIDS creates a double portrait of two experts situated on 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 & equipment dealer of Talisman Europe Ltd (now dissolved), provide an unusual and disturbing context for shocking revelations about the industry of war. While interviewing Privitera and Hedges for director...
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it would be better for the Prince to be feared, than loved. Some 500 years later, Michael Hardt, political philosopher and co-author of *Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth*, asks what it would mean to base a political system on love, rather than on fear. How can we transform a society that is increasingly defined by a permanent state of war and cultivated by an industry of fear? How can we realize the paradigm shift...
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Investigative journalists Robert Fisk, Jeremy Scahill and Vijay Prashad approach the concept of terror from their respective angles. Fisk dismantles terror as a term that is rendered meaningless to alienate political movement from its origins: justice and injustice. Scahill points out that terror is a relative term, as its interpretation depends on which side of the bombing you’re on. Using the absurd example of the ‘The Hague Invasion Act’,...
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This short film weaves an unexpected narrative from Hitchcock’s trail of walk-on parts, in which the master himself is pursued by a number of shadowy doppelgängers, caught up in a world of mistaken identity. Playing out a multi-leveled ‘reality’, Grimonprez’s cinematic twists and turns echo the trademark of the Master of Suspense, while radiating a quiet and beguiling surrealism reminiscent of that other great master, Rene Magritte.
