Johan Grimonprez, Double Take

Belgian artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez--perhaps best known for his video installations--compiles TV commercials, footage of the famous "kitchen debate" between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev and extensive clips of Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock Presents to advocate the case he makes in his film-essay, Double Take for a parallel between America's Cold War tensions and Hitchcock films. Using a story by Tom McCarthy as its impetus, Grimonprez further adds to the conspiratorial frenzy with a famous Hitchcock lookalike and interviews of his own creation (28 minutes).

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