Johan Grimonprez Movies
- 2016
Shadow World
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A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms...
- 2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
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In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita...
- 2017
Blue Orchids
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In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade....
- 2009
Double Take
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Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period....
- 1997
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
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An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the...
- 2018
Three Thoughts on Terror
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In Three Thoughts on Terror, investigative journalists Robert Fisk, Jeremy Scahill and Vijay Prashad approach the concept of terror from their...
- 2015
Every Day Words Disappear
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In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it is better for the Prince to be feared than loved. Some 500 years later, Michael Hardt, political philosopher and...
- 2018
Two Travellers to a River
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When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that...
- 2023
Four Chambers to the Heart
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"I painted the worlds entering the eyes." In her day, painter and portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola was much celebrated. In this sumptuous animation,...
- 2005
Looking for Alfred
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Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of...
- 2013
What I Will
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An anthropologist, who tries to decode corporate culture, gets obsessed with the story of a parachutist who died after his equipment malfunctioned....
- 2017
Raymond Tallis - On Tickling
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Dozens of couples dance in a circle, a house topples down a slope, a cat manically revolves around itself. A few seconds beforehand, an admonishing...
- 2009
Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Belly Button: Karen Black Interview by Johan Grimonprez
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During the making of Double Take, professional Hitchcock doppelgänger Ron Burrage pointed director Johan Grimonprez to a story doing the rounds...
- 1989
Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea
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In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an...
- 1992
Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter
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Kobarweng reconstructs the first encounter between a remote village set in the highlands of the island of New Guinea and the outside world. Mainly...
- 1999
LOST NATION, January 1999
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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...