Mar 21, 2009 double take sean kelly gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of new work by belgian artist johan grimonprez his first since joining the gallery. Johan grimonprez was born in roeselare, belgium in 1962. Double take director johan grimonprez on hitchcock, the. This slippery fish of a docuessay, packed to the gills with stimulating archive footage, is at once fun and deadly serious. Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the johan grimonprez directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so. Looking for alfred 2004 was a first step in johan grimonprez s long pursuit of the iconic but elusive figure of alfred hitchcock. Philosophy, the unknown knowns, and the public use of reason slavoj zizek 2006.
His critically acclaimed work dances on the borders of practice and theory, art and cinema, documentary and fiction, demanding a double take on the part of the viewer. The director of double take, johan grimonprez, shows us two things which obsess himthe cold war and the life of alfred hitchcock. Grimonprez gives us two simultaneously living versions of alfred hitchcockone from 1962, the alfred hitchcock who had just completed making the film the birds, and. Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his film essay, dial history. He is most known for his films dial history and double take. Watch double take movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. Johan grimonprez s ingenious documentaryfiction hybrid a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia looks at alfred hitchcocks late 50s and early. Ierimonti gallery, in collaboration with castello 925, is delighted to present double take by the acclaimed director johan grimonprez, a film that explores how our vision of reality and the socio political situation are influenced and altered by the media. Download the tv guide app for iphone, ipad and android. Johan grimonprez s ingenious documentaryfiction more. One has dedicated his life to unmasking lies, while the other has built his life on them. As of 2014, grimonprez s upcoming project includes the feature films how to rewind your dog. Johan grimonprez s ingenious documentaryfiction hybrid a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia looks at alfred hitchcocks late 50. As the cast continues to move beyond hitchs work, they take a look at double take.
Double take is a 2009 avantgarde documentary from director johan grimonprez. An official selection at both the berlin and sundance film festivals, johan grimonprez s double take is a unique film that combines early 60s advertising. Johan grimonprez in conversation with tom mccarthy by fvu. Doubletake is a unique new puzzle game featuring fast action gameplay, gorgeous graphics, and captivating music. Acclaimed director johan grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Thats the implicit premise of johan grimonprezs double take part documentary, part essay, part prankish fantasy, and altogether a. Double take johan grimonprez exhibitions sean kelly. Cinema scope interviews if you meet your double, you. It premiered at sundance and berlin, and traveled the international film festival circuit, winning. As of 2014, grimonprez s upcoming projects include the feature films how to rewind your dog and shadow world.
Acclaimed director johan grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold. Double take zips and zaps like the most addictive of television shows. Double take doesnt approach it in suggesting that some events and some fears, like the crows at bodega bay, can shatter language. I n double take, grimonprez reinserts hitchcock himself into a deadly dual relationship, yet the directors encounter with himself as a dying manhitchcocks encounter, in the first instance, but by a curious twist of fate also grimonprez s encounter, since the main hitchcock double ron burrage he identified would also prove to be a dying. Johan grimonprez born 1962 is a belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator.
He is most known for his films dial history 1997 and double take 2009 and shadow world. Hitchcock didnt have a belly button karen black interview by johan grimonprez listen to audio. Mirroring hitchcocks fascination with the double with a focus on the phenomenon of the lookalike, this densely layered short video spawned multiple offshoots, including the featurelength double take 2009. Johan grimonprez s award winning films include dial history 1997 and double take 2009.
In the course of several sections, grimonprez brings his works face to face with. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clamber to say the right things, live on tv. In his new film double take, acclaimed director johan grimonprez dial history casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war. Johan grimonprez s ingenious documentaryfiction hybrid a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia looks at alfred hitchcocks late 50s and early 60s films against the climate of cold warera political anxiety. Download catalogue pdf 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 written and directed by johan grimonprez zapomatik, 2009 weve got the same birthday title. Each friday, a film will be made available on our website, up for a week, entirely free of charge. Double take watch shadow world online watch online anytime. Johan grimonprez, double take 2009, courtesy of zapomatik. There are elements from the looking for alfred film, and lots more from the casting material. Double take also recounts an apocryphal tale, based on a borges anecdote, in which hitchcock meets his own future self while. Inside the global arms trade, based on the book by andrew feinstein. Choose to exercise your quick reflexes in the time trial mode, take it back a. Double take was inspired by the 1957 drama across the bridge, which was in turn based on a short story by graham greene.
His fulllength feature, double take, 2009, received the black pearl award at the abu dhabi film festival, a spirit award, and was an official selection of both the. The backdrop of the film charts the rise of the television in the domestic setting and with it, the ensuing commodification of fear during the cold war. Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the johan grimonprezdirected movie via subscription can be difficult, so. With its premiere at centre pompidou in paris, france and documenta x in 1997, it eerily.
The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clamor to say the right things, live on tv. Hitchcock, famous for cameos in his own works and his pranks, is rumoured to have come second in a hitchcock lookalike contest. I still remember the episode in which a housewife kills her husband. Thats only the start of grimonprez s essay on doubling. Argos tv brings new and old works from the argos collection to your personal computer, tablet, or smartphone. Artwork page for double take, johan grimonprez, 2009. Johan grimonprez celebrity profile check out the latest johan grimonprez photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Johan grimonprezs latest work double take 2009 is part of the magasin 3 collection and is here presented for the first time at an institution in europe.
Double take a film by johan grimonprez exhibitions. Johan grimonprez s double take looks at events around alfred hitchcocks 1962 classic the birds. With ron burrage, mark perry, delfine bafort, leonid brezhnev. A more than worthy successor to grimonprez s dial history, double take shifts from documentary to essay to speculation, capturing the essential stylistic pleasures of hitchcocks works. Or he will kill you acclaimed director johan grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take. The plot is set during the cold war and combines both documentary and fictional elements. Double take is a 2009 essay film, directed by johan grimonprez and written by tom mccarthy. While interviewing privitera and hedges for grimonprezs recently released feature shadow world 2016, it became clear that the two men were describing the same anguish and trauma, but from paradoxical perspectives. Oct 19, 2016 the boys have returned for a new episode of the cast who knew too much. Grimonprez premiered his new film, double take, which was written by. A midcareer survey will take place at blaffer gallery, the art museum of the university of houston, in 2010. Nov 20, 2017 in 2009, grimonprez made double take, which targets the global rise of fearascommodity. He studied at the school of visual arts and attended the whitney museum independent study program in new york.
Johan grimonprez 1962, roeselaere, belgium is a renowned filmmaker and artist. We should make it clear that double take is a project that doesnt yet exist as a finished work and is very different to the gallery film of looking for alfred. Double take, johan grimonprez, 80 mins, 12a the independent. Johan grimonprez belgium, 1962 studied at the school of visual arts and attended the whitney museum independent study program in new york. Double take written and directed by johan grimonprez zapomatik, 2009 20th century most extaordinary diplomatic maneuvers walter cronkite. Jorge luis borges 1956 if you meet your double, you should kill him. Artist johan grimonprez and author tom mccarthy became acquainted at a 2005.
Doubletake is for mac users who like compact cameras, but sometimes wish they could magically pull a wide angle lens out of their pocket, or plug in a sensor with a few extra megapixels for that large print doubletake handles this by giving you both automatic and manual control of how to stitch photos perfectly, with simple draganddrop. An official selection at both the berlin and sundance film festivals, johan grimonprez s double take is a unique film that combines early 60s advertising, hysterical red menace newsreels, and alfred hitchcock featuring his hilarious introductions to his tv show and movies, and interviews with actual hitchcock impersonator ron burrage into. The opening will take place on friday, february 6th from 6pm until 8pm. The cover image of this book is extracted from double take grimonprez, 2009, a fi lm that, as i will explore in chapter 3, features a complex juxtaposition of different kinds of images. In his new film double take, acclaimed director johan grimonprez dial history casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take. On the work of johan grimonprez can be downloaded from the same sites. Herman asselberghs and johan grimonprez hijackorama. Subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using the birds as an essential metaphor, double take traces catastrophe cultures relentless assault on the home, from moving images inception to the present day. If you meet your double, you must kill him, or he will kill you is the eerie watchword of johan grimonprez s double take, which opens at film forum next week and is the third film directed. Who says theres only two of us, he said mischievously, maybe theres three. Double take johan grimonprez exhibitions sean kelly gallery. Grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Thats only the start of grimonprezs essay on doubling.
Johan grimonprezs ingenious documentaryfiction hybrid a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia looks at alfred hitchcocks late 50s and early. Double take may not reach as high, but it does offer ninety minutes in hitchcocks company, and a welcome opportunity to revisit a. Or he will kill you acclaimed director johan grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Looking for alfred 2004 was a first step in johan grimonprezs long pursuit of the iconic but elusive figure of alfred hitchcock.
Its a poor sort of memory that only works backwards s. Double take 2010 stream and watch online moviefone. The film is anchored by a chronological recap of the usussr cold war relationship, the time when catastrophic culture was at the point of formation. Grimonprez gives us two simultaneously living versions of alfred hitchcockone from 1962, the alfred hitchcock who had just completed making the film the birds, and alfred hitchcock from 1980, old, revered by. Johan grimonprezs ingenious documentaryfiction more. Grimonprez s work dances on the borders of practice and theory, art and cinema, documentary and fiction, demanding a double take on the part of the viewer. Grimonprez s enthusiasm keeps trying to break through the frame. Rent double take 2009 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Synopsis if you meet your double, you should kill him. The protagonist is a fictionalised version of alfred hitchcock. Traveling the main festival circuit from the berlinale to sundance, they have garnered several best director awards, the 2005 zkm international media award, a spirit award and the 2009 black pearl award at the abu dhabi film festival.
Rent double take 2009 starring ron burrage and mark perry on dvd and bluray. The film is a tribute to alfred hitchcock and his popular role as presenter in his own tv series the alfred hitchcock hour 195565. Its impossible to summarize a collection of fiction that is so vast and so varied, so below youll find a small selection of fiction from the archiveincluding excerpts from a few novels. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clammer to say. Double take is a 2001 buddy action comedy film starring eddie griffin and orlando jones. An interview with johan grimonprez and tom mccarthy by alexander provan 2009. Informed by an archeology of presentday media, his work seeks out the tension between the intimate and the bigger picture of globalization. Inside the global arms trade 2011, based on the book by andrew feinstein.
Director johan grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Ron burrage, mark perry, delfine bafort, johan grimonprez, double take double take, double take. Subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using the birds as an essential metaphor, double take traces catastrophe cultures relentless assault on. Acclaimed belgian director johan grimonprez dial history casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. An ingenious hybrid, double take is part mockdocumentary, part conceptual experiment, and altogether a thoughtprovoking, hugely entertaining and hilarious piece that does for alfred hitchcock what orson welles did for himself in his mythmaking f for fake. Subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using the birds as an essential metaphor, double take traces catastrophe cultures relentless assault on the home, from moving images inception to the. Double take sean kelly gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of new work by belgian artist johan grimonprez his first since joining the gallery. Double take is by no means meant to be a ripoff of craig baldwin, however. Want to watch double take in the comfort of your own home.
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