Film Festival 09 - Double Take
Double Take
Belgium/Germany/The Netherlands 2008, 80m
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Festivals: Berlin 2009
Belgian video artist Johan Grimonprez offers a smart-as-hell
mash-up of Hitchcock TV intros and movie moments, doppelgänger
plotting from Borges, 60s newsreel footage and instant coffee ads
(calculated to instill the fear of catastrophe in any decent
American woman). Mediaphiles and 60s-watchers can expect to be
highly entertained and left with an unshakeable impression that
film and television were the primary battlefield of the Cold War,
with the Master of Suspense its presiding jester and genius. - BG.
"Double Take starts off with Hitchcock saying, 'I think my mother
scared me when I was three months old.' &But then he says, 'You
see, she said 'Boo!'' and turns it into a joke. It's like the whole
cold war - the entire world was like, 'Oh, they are scaring us,'
but in the end all either side actually did was say 'Boo!' in order
to boost their defense industries, and people started to wonder,
was this all a big joke?" - Johan Grimonprez, Artforum
www.doubletakefilm.com
