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Symposium on Double Take (2009), a film by Johan Grimonprez
October 15th, 2009, 10:00 – 18:00. Domzaal, Art Centre Vooruit
Organized on the occasion of the Belgian première of Double Take at the Film Festival Ghent and the exhibition Shot By Both Sides! at bkSM in Strombeek and Mechelen, this international symposium explores some of the main issues of Grimonprez’s film. Apart from including a screening of Double Take and a lecture by its filmmaker, the symposium deals with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, the visualizations of doubles and monuments, the oscillation between cinema and television, Cold War iconography and our contemporary culture of fear and catastrophe.
Speakers are: Johan Grimonprez, Tom Mc Carthy (Author of Remainder), Edwin Carels (KASK), Steven Jacobs (KASK, Antwerp University), Dany Nobus (Brunel University) and Jodi Dean (Hobart & William Smith Colleges, NY).
October 14th, 2009, 20:00, Belgian premiere of Double Take. Filmfestival Ghent
October 16th, 2009, 19:00, opening exhibition Shot By Both Sides! bkSM
From October 16th untill December 12th @ Cultuurcentrum Strombeek and De Garage in Mechelen
Shot By Both Sides! Double Take is organized by KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, University College Ghent) in collaboration withKunstensite (KuS), Vooruit, bkSM (beeldende Kunst Strombeek/Mechelen), VAF (Flanders Image) and Zapomatik
