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

    7.42016HD

    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
  • 2009
    Double Take

    Double Take

    Double Take

    5.92009HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    6.91997HD

    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
  • 2018
    Two Travellers to a River

    Two Travellers to a River

    Two Travellers to a River

    52018HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2023
    Four Chambers to the Heart

    Four Chambers to the Heart

    Four Chambers to the Heart

    02023HD

    "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
  • 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
  • 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