Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez (b. 1962) is a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator. He is most known for his films 'Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y' (1997), which the Guardian included in its article "From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works" (2009); and 'Shadow World' (2016), based on the book by Andrew Feinstein. Most recently, Grimonprez wrote and directed the documentary 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat' (2024) about the promise of decolonization, the hope of the non-aligned movement, and the dream of self-determination.

  • Title: Johan Grimonprez
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  • Known For: Directing
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  • Place of Birth: Roeselare, Belgium
  • Homepage: http://www.johangrimonprez.be/
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Johan Grimonprez Movies

  • 1989
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    Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea

    Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea

    1 1989 HD

    In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an...

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  • 2013
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    What I Will

    What I Will

    1 2013 HD

    An anthropologist, who tries to decode corporate culture, gets obsessed with the story of a parachutist who died after his equipment malfunctioned....

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  • 2009
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    Double Take

    Double Take

    5.9 2009 HD

    Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period....

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  • 2009
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    Double Take

    Double Take

    5.9 2009 HD

    Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period....

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  • 1997
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    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

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

    6.9 1997 HD

    An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the...

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  • 2018
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    Two Travellers to a River

    Two Travellers to a River

    5 2018 HD

    When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that...

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  • 1992
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    Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter

    Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter

    1 1992 HD

    Kobarweng reconstructs the first encounter between a remote village set in the highlands of the island of New Guinea and the outside world. Mainly...

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  • 2024
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    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    8 2024 HD

    In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita...

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  • 2018
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    Three Thoughts on Terror

    Three Thoughts on Terror

    1 2018 HD

    In Three Thoughts on Terror, investigative journalists Robert Fisk, Jeremy Scahill and Vijay Prashad approach the concept of terror from their...

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  • 2016
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    Shadow World

    Shadow World

    7.2 2016 HD

    A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms...

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  • 2015
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    Every Day Words Disappear

    Every Day Words Disappear

    1 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Four Chambers to the Heart

    Four Chambers to the Heart

    1 2023 HD

    "I painted the worlds entering the eyes." In her day, painter and portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola was much celebrated. In this sumptuous animation,...

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  • 2005
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    Looking for Alfred

    Looking for Alfred

    1 2005 HD

    Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of...

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  • 2005
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    Looking for Alfred

    Looking for Alfred

    1 2005 HD

    Obsessed with de/reconstructing our corrupted visions of media, celebrity and appearance, Johan Grimonprez assembled a bewildering gaggle of...

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  • 1999
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    LOST NATION, January 1999

    LOST NATION, January 1999

    1 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

    Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

    1 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

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

    6.9 1997 HD

    An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the...

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  • 1997
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    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

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

    6.9 1997 HD

    An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the...

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  • 2017
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    Blue Orchids

    Blue Orchids

    1 2017 HD

    In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade....

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  • 2017
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    Blue Orchids

    Blue Orchids

    1 2017 HD

    In Blue Orchids, Johan Grimonprez creates a double portrait of two experts situated on opposite ends of the same issue—the global arms trade....

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  • 2016
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    Shadow World

    Shadow World

    7.2 2016 HD

    A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms...

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  • 2016
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    Shadow World

    Shadow World

    7.2 2016 HD

    A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms...

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  • 2024
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    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    8 2024 HD

    In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita...

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