Johan Grimonprez, Double Take, video projection, still image: Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock presents, Number Twenty-Two. Courtesy of Universal & Zapomatik
DOUBLE TAKE (2009), Video projection, 80 minutes
Still image: Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Number Twenty-Two. Courtesy of Universal & Zapomatik

Johan Grimonprez at Magasin 3

28 March 2009

Johan Grimonprez
28 March - 7 June 2009
Curator: Tessa Praun

Johan Grimonprez's latest work Double Take is part of the Magasin 3 Collection and is presented for the first time at an institution in Europe. The film is a tribute to Sir Alfred Hitchcock and to a certain extent an adaptation and continuation of Grimonprez's film Looking for Alfred (2005).

Johan Grimonprez, Double Take, video projection, still image: Leonid Brezhnev - Nikita Khurshchev, April 17, 1964. Courtesy of Universal & Zapomatik
DOUBLE TAKE (2009), Video projection, 80 minutes
Still image: Leonid Brezhnev - Nikita Khrushchev, April 17, 1964.
Courtesy of Universal & Zapomatik

Material by and about Hitchcock is interwoven with TV footage of the Cold War - a period where prosperity and the American idyll were disrupted by political turbulence. Fact and fiction merge in this experimental film investigating how our perception of reality is influenced by mass media, advertising and Hollywood.

Johan Grimonprez was born in 1962 in Belgium and currently lives and works in both Brussels and New York.

Read more:
"iloveyouihateyou", Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer at Magasin 3
(7 February - 24 May 2009)
Santiago Sierra at Magasin 3 (18 February - 7 June 2009)
Outdoor Project, Truls Melin: "Mental Togetherness" at Magasin 3 (From 28 March 2009)
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