Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms...
Shadow World
Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of...
Looking for Alfred
In 1980 an extraordinary demonstration hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Sorocaba. Under the military dictatorship, a court had outlawed...
kiss-o-drome
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that...
Two Travellers to a River
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period....
Double Take
In January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if I would be in for a trip to Lost...
LOST NATION, January 1999
In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade....
Blue Orchids