ScreenWize

A moody and thought provoking tale of doppelgangers, Hitchcock and the rise to power of television that defies categorisation with its montage approach to story-telling.

Inspired by a tale from surrealist novelist Jorge Luis Borges in which a writer meets an older version of himself on his deathbed, director and media artist Johan Grimonprez explores themes of doubles, memory and the repetitions of history. Whilst strange and haunting images loop and repeat, Grimonprez cleverly maintains a coherent sense of story by wrapping his thoughts in a narrative about Alfred Hitchcock and his famous impersonator Ron Burrage.

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