Shot By Both Sides! Symposium on Double Take (2009), a film by Johan Grimonprez

Shot By Both Sides! Symposium on Double Take (2009), a film by Johan Grimonprez

October 15th, 2009, 10:00 – 18:00. Domzaal, Art Centre Vooruit, Gent, Belgium

Organized on the occasion of the Belgian première of Double Take at the Film Festival Ghent and the exhibition Double Take Plus 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).

Organized by KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, University College Ghent) with the support of Kunstensite (KuS), Vooruit, and Zapomatik

Free admission but subscription is required. More info: www.doubletake.kaskprojecten.be