It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. On the work of Johan Grimonprez.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. On the work of Johan Grimonprez.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. On the work of Johan Grimonprez.

This reader brings together the most insightful dialogues and critiques on the work of Johan Grimonprez (*1962 in Belgium) and assembles various fragments of his film scripts. Kobarweng or Where is Your Helicopter? strikes at the heart of what constitutes a bastard child of colonialism: the legacy of anthropological discourse. dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y unwraps the hidden dimensions of our mediatised culture in terms of the news spectacle and its cultivation of fear, oblivion and catastrophe. Double Take uses the image of Alfred Hitchcock to navigate through a bedazzling doubling of cinema with television, capitalism with communism, and commercials with warfare. Maybe the Sky is Really Green, and We’re Just Colorblind serves as an artist’s sketchbook to expand on existing themes and explore new ones.

author: Johan Grimonprez & Benoit Detalle
publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
year: 2011
book: 14,9 x 21,3 cm, 352 pages, English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-3130-0
price: €29,80