Double Take

Original Title|Double Take

1' 20" | 2009 (Draft)

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Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using The Birds as an essential metaphor, director Johan Grimonprez traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from the inception of moving images to the present day.

synopsis

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 Khrushchev and Nixon debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself emerges in a dandy new role on 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!

Credits

Music
Christian Halten

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Doc
Genre
Year of production

2009
Production status
Draft
Original title
Double Take
Original language
English

Technical specs

Running time
1' 20"
Aspect ratio
16:9
Available formats
Digital Betacam
Colour
Colour

Contact & sales

Contact

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Festivals & awards

Festivals

2010: Sundance Film Festival (USA) / Witte De With (NLD) / San Francisco Independent Film Festival (USA) / !f Istanbul (TUR) / Doc Fortnight (USA) / The State of Things - NAMOC (CHN) / Québec City Biennial (CAN) / Seattle International Film Festival (USA) / The Fruitmarket Gallery (solo show) (GBR)

Awards

2009: Special Mention (Era New Horizons International Film Festival) / Special Mention (Image Forum Festival Yokohama) / Black Pearl Award for Best Documentary Director (Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) )