Johan Grimonprez

Johan GRIMONPREZ (1962, Belgium) is a renowned filmmaker, multimedia artist and curator. He was educated in photography and mixed media at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent an later received an MFA in Video & Mixed Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, that premiered in 1997 at Centre Pompidou and Documenta 10 in Kassel and was awarded Best Director at San Francisco International Film Festival. Grimonprez’ work can be characterised by a criticism of contemporary media manipulation, drawing from such diverse sources as documentary material, found footage, historical items from archives, his own home videos, news pictures, advertising, video clips and excerpts from Hollywood films. His films have travelled the main festival circuit, winning several Best Director awards and his curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including MoMA and Pinakothek der Moderne among others.

Filmography

(selection) Nimdol June 18, 1959 – Nimdol July 6, 1987 (1990, short), Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter? (1992, short), Well, You Can't Go to California, That's the First Place They’ll Look for You (1992, short), Besmette Stad (1993, TV short), Smell the Flowers While You Can (1993, short), Corner of Canal and Broadway (1994, short), La force fait l’union fait la force (1994, short), It Will Be Allright If You Come Again, Only Next Time Don’t Bring Any Gear, Except a Tea Kettle (1994-2001, short), Beware! In Playing the Phantom, You Become One (1994-1998, short), Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), LOST NATION, January 1999 (1999, short), Looking for Alfred (2004, short), Ron Burrage, Hitchcock Double (2005, short), The Hitchcock Castings (2005, short), Double Take (2009), I May Have Lost Forever My Umbrella (2011, short), ...Because Superglue Is Forever! (2012, short), What I Will (2013, short), From SATIN ISLAND (2015, short), Shadow World (2016, doc), Every Day Words Disappear (2016, short), Raymond Tallis on Tickling (2017, short), Blue Orchids (2017), Three Thoughts on Terror (2018, short), Two Travellers to a River (2018, short)

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