Johan Grimonprez Movies

  • 2024
    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    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...

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
  • 2016
    Shadow World

    Shadow World

    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...

    Shadow World
  • 2018
    Two Travellers to a River

    Two Travellers to a River

    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...

    Two Travellers to a River
  • 1997
    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

    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...

    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
  • 2009
    Double Take

    Double Take

    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....

    Double Take
  • 2015
    Every Day Words Disappear

    Every Day Words Disappear

    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...

    Every Day Words Disappear
  • 2018
    Three Thoughts on Terror

    Three Thoughts on Terror

    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...

    Three Thoughts on Terror
  • 2017
    Blue Orchids

    Blue Orchids

    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....

    Blue Orchids
  • 2023
    Four Chambers to the Heart

    Four Chambers to the Heart

    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,...

    Four Chambers to the Heart
  • 2005
    Looking for Alfred

    Looking for Alfred

    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...

    Looking for Alfred
  • 2017
    Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

    Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

    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...

    Raymond Tallis - On Tickling
  • 2013
    What I Will

    What I Will

    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....

    What I Will
  • 2009
    Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Belly Button: Karen Black Interview by Johan Grimonprez

    Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Belly Button: Karen Black Interview by Johan Grimonprez

    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...

    Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Belly Button: Karen Black Interview by Johan Grimonprez
  • 1989
    Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea

    Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea

    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...

    Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea
  • 1992
    Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter

    Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter

    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...

    Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter
  • 1999
    LOST NATION, January 1999

    LOST NATION, January 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...

    LOST NATION, January 1999