BELLUM - THE DAEMON OF WAR

By David HERDIES, Georg GÖTMARK

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Documentary - Completed 2021

A provocative meditation on the ways in which the West tells the narratives of war.
Who, if not everyone, is complicit?

Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2021
Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • DENMARK, SWEDEN
    • Languages
    • DARI, ENGLISH, SWEDISH
    • Duration
    • 97 mn
    • Director(s)
    • David HERDIES, Georg GÖTMARK
    • Producer(s)
    • Michael KROTKIEWSKI (MOMENTO FILM), David HERDIES (MOMENTO FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • A bored military contractor in Nevada pining for his return, an American war photographer in Afghanistan attempting to capture the horrors, and a Swedish engineer developing A.I. for the defense industry. Three disparate individuals in three disparate locations provide the unlikely focus of BELLUM - THE DAEMON OF WAR, a documentary triptych on the abstraction of conflict in an increasingly technocratic world.

      Zooming in from the digital realms of coding and silicon to the physical and psychological front lines, directors David Herdies and Georg Götmark have crafted a provocative meditation on the ways in which Western Nations tell the narratives of war that ultimately asks: who, if not everyone, is complicit?