Double Take

Johan Grimonprez België 2009 80 min.

Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, getting unwillingly involved in another perspective on the Cold War era. A very creative collage film where images of the legendary director, his doppelganger and his films are fascinatingly placed in a parallel with historical events.

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Artist in focus Johan Grimonprez

By using meticulously chosen images and with The Birds as essential metaphor, Grimonprez tells a layered story about the American search for an enemy after the Fall of the Iron Curtain, about the ambiguity of love and murder in Hitchcock’s thrillers and the continuous stream of images in our times. A groundbreaking archive film confirming Grimonprez as an idiosyncratic video artist.

 

Two shorts by Johan Grimonprez are screened before the main film:

from SATIN ISLAND [ in collaboration with Tom McCarthy ]. 2015, 3min

Hitchcock didn't have a Belly Button [ Karen Black interview by Johan Grimonprez ]. 2009, 1min10, soundpiece