Double Take

Using the figures of Alfred Hitchcock and his doppelganger, Grimonprez explores the socio-political and media universe surrounding the Cold War. As television held cinema hostage, as Khrushchev and Nixon debated on live TV, and as a culture of fear and paranoia was born, Hitchcock himself emerged on the small screen in a new role, blackmailing housewives with coffee commercials they couldn’t refuse…