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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. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clammer to say the right things, live on TV. DOUBLE TAKE targets the global political rise of ‘fear as a commodity’, in a tale of odd couples and double deals. As television hijacks cinema, and the Krushchev and Nixon debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself emerges in a dandy new role on the TV, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't refuse. The novelist Tom McCarthy writes a plot of personal paranoia to mirror the political intrigue, in which Hitchcock and his elusive double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder – of each other! Subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, Grimonprez traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images’ inception to the present day.
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 detailed information
| status |
completed |
| type |
documentary (features) |
| title |
Double Take |
| director |
Johan Grimonprez |
| screenplay |
Johan Grimonprez |
| editing |
Dieter Diependaele & Tyler Hubby |
| sound |
Ranko Paukovic |
| music |
Christian Halten |
| cast |
Ron Burrage & Mark Perry |
| flemish producer |
Emmy Oost |
| supported by |
Flanders Audiovisual Fund, ZDF/Arte, Nordmedia, Dutch Film Fund, Rotterdam Film Fund |
| original version |
English |
| running time |
80' |
| format |
Beta Digit, 1:1.85, Dolby SR, Colour |
| year of production |
2009 |
| release |
February 2009 |
| contact |
Zapomatik
Emmy Oost
Brandhoutkaai 37 / 6
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
T +32 (0)2 219 00 18
F +32 (0)2 219 00 18
info@zapomatik.com
www.zapomatik.com |
| website |
www.zapomatik.com |
| festivals |
2009: Festival International du Film d’Amiens (FR) / 1989 – Kunsthalle Wien (AT) / Artist Rooms (on tour) (UK) / Artist Rooms (on tour) (UK) / Athens International Film Festival (GR) / Bangkok International Film Festival (TH) / Berlin International Film Festival (DE) / Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum (US) / Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Films (AR) / Canberra International Film Festival (AU) / Cinéma du Réel (FR) / CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (DK) / Docboat – Warsaw Nonfiction E-Fest (PL) / Era New Horizons International Film Festival (PL) / European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck (DE) / Festival International De Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Montréal (CA) / Flanders International Film Festival Ghent (BE) / Garage, Center for Contemporary Culture (RU) / Image Forum Festival Kyoto (JP) / Image Forum Festival Nagoya (JP) / Image Forum Festival Tokyo (JP) / Image Forum Festival Yokohama (JP) / IndieLisboa – International Independent Film Festival (PT) / International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam - IDFA (NL) / International Euro-Arab Film Festival, Paris (ES) / Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (BR) / Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (CZ) / L’image document: entre réalité et fiction (FR) / La Cinémathèque Française (FR) / Labyrinth :: Freedom (IT) / London Film Festival (UK) / Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall (SE) / Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) (AE) / Oslo International Film Festival (NO) / Reina Sofia – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte (ES) / Säo Paulo International Film Festival (BR) / Sean Kelly Gallery, Nex York (US) / Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (TW) / The Fruitmarket Gallery (UK) / The Uncertainty Principle (ES) / Torino Film Festival Cinema Giovani (IT) / Vancouver International Film Festival (CA) / Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH) /
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| awards |
2009: Special Mention (Era New Horizons International Film Festival) / 2009: Special Mention (Image Forum Festival Yokohama) / 2009: Black Pearl Award for Best Documentary Director (Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) ) |
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