Johan Grimonprez: screening of DOUBLE TAKE

Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce that Johan Grimonprez's award-winning documentary film DOUBLE TAKE (2009) will be screened at Documentary Fortnight 2010, the Museum of Modern Art's International Festival of Nonfiction Film, New York (February 17 – March 3, 2010). There will be two consecutive screenings on March 3, 2010 at 6:00pm and 8:00pm at the museum's Celeste Bartos Theater, in the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, 4 West 54th Street. The 6:00pm screening will include an introduction by the artist and the 8:00pm screening will include a discussion with the artist.

DOUBLE TAKE is a hybrid narrative/documentary feature that casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the Cold War period. DOUBLE TAKE targets the global political rise of "fear as a commodity," in a tale of odd couples and double deals. As television hijacks cinema, and the Khrushchev and Nixon debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Hitchcock himself emerges in a dandy new role on TV, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't refuse. Award-winning novelist Tom McCarthy writes the plot for this film. Starring Alfred Hitchcock himself in confrontation with Hitchcock double, Ron Burrage, and Hitchcock sound-alike, Mark Perry.