ART IN AMERICA

"THINK AGAIN. With Double Take, Johan Grimonprez extends his exploration of the mirror worlds of news and

entertainment, using Alfred Hitchcock – and his doubles – as suitably duplicitous guides."

ART PAPERS

"NVT: 'In your essay film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997, you explored the subject of hijacking in order to hijack the media. You also used the writings of Don DeLillo to comment on the images you appropriated."

CINEMASCOPE
"To write about Hitchcock today—nay, to think about Hitchcock today—is, as Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take admits in its dizzying construction, simply vertiginous."

“'They say that if you meet your double, you should kill him.' The mantra in Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez’s eighty-minute film Double Take, 2009, suggests that the real must assert itself against its image to prevent its own defeat in an ongoing battle between fiction and reality."