DOUBLE TAKE
Synopsis
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.
Technical Details
Essay Film, 80 min, Digibeta and 35mm, Colour and B/W
© 2009 Nikovantastic Film, ZAP-O-MATIK, Volya Films, ARTE
Film Fund: The Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, nordmedia Fonds GmbH in Lower Saxony and Bremen, Rotterdam Film Fund
Cast
Ron Burrage (Hitchcock Double) · Mark Perry (Hitchcock Voice)
Crew
Producers: Emmy Oost, Hanneke van der Tas, Nicole Gerhards, Denis Vaslin
Writer and Director: Johan Grimonprez
Story written by: Tom McCarthy (Remainder)
Inspired by the Essay “25 August, 1983” by Jorge Luis Borges
Music: Christian Halten
Editor: Dieter Diependale, Tyler Hubby
Comissioning Editor: Doris Hepp