Double Take


Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, DOUBLE TAKE traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images’ inception to the present day.


The most intellectually agile of this year’s crop of film.

 – The New York Times

 

Wildly Entertaining!

 – Variety

 






 

Cast and Crew

director

 Johan Grimonprez

producer

 Emmy Oost

editing

Dieter Diependaele
Tyler Hubby

music

Christian Halten
production

Zap-o-matik Belgium

Nikovantastic Germany

Volya Films

Netherlands
co-production ZDF/Arte
with participation of

YLE, Raisat

length

 80'
genre documentary
year 2009

Sales and Distribution

distributor

 Filmmuseum Netherlands

int. sales

UMedia

Funding

The Flanders Audiovisual Fund
Netherlands Film Fund
Rotterdam Film Fund
Nordmedia


festivals

Berlin International Film Festival 2009
Bangkok International Film Festival 2009
Cinema du Réel Paris 2009, Closing film
Visions du Réel Nyon, Switzerland 2009
Middle East International Film Festival Abu Dhabi 2009 -
Best Documentary Award
London International Film Festival 2009
Era New Horizons International Film Festival Warsaw, Poland 2009, Special Mention
Flanders International Film Festival Ghent 2009
Sao Paolo International Film Festival 2009
Jihlava Film Festival 2009
TATE Artist Rooms tour: firstsite, Colchester, UK 2009
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2009
CPH: DOX 2009
Torino Film Festival 2009 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2009
Oslo International Film Festival 2009
Sundance International Film Festival 2010
DocFortnight/MoMA New York 2010
Québec City Biennial 2010
Cinema release: Film Forum New York 2010
Melbourne International Film Festival 2010