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Johan Grimonprez

1962 (64) • Directing

Johan Grimonprez (born 1962; Roeselare) is a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator. He is most known for his films Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) which the Guardian included in its article From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works, Double Take (2009) and Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2016), based on the book by Andrew Feinstein. Grimonprez wrote and directed the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat about the promise of decolonisation, the hope of the non-aligned movement and the dream of self-determination.

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

77%

Director

2024

Shadow World

76%

Director

2016

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

69%

Director

1997

Double Take

58%

Director

2009

Two Travellers to a River

50%

Director

2018

Looking for Alfred

70%

Director

2005

Renegade TV Gets Dazed

90%

Director

1998

Four Chambers to the Heart

Director

2023

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

77%

Director

2024

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

77%

Writer

2024

Four Chambers to the Heart

Director

2023

Three Thoughts on Terror

Director

2018

Two Travellers to a River

50%

Director

2018

Blue Orchids

Director

2017

Blue Orchids

Producer

2017

Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

Director

2017

Shadow World

76%

Director

2016

Shadow World

76%

Screenstory

2016

Shadow World

76%

Writer

2016

kiss-o-drome

Director

2016

Every Day Words Disappear

Director

2015

What I Will

Director

2013

Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Belly Button: Karen Black Interview by Johan Grimonprez

Director

2009

Double Take

58%

Director

2009

Double Take

58%

Author

2009

Looking for Alfred

70%

Director

2005

Looking for Alfred

70%

Writer

2005

LOST NATION, January 1999

Director

1999

Renegade TV Gets Dazed

90%

Director

1998

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

69%

Director

1997

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

69%

Editor

1997

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

69%

Writer

1997

Comment filmer Molenbeek?

Director

1994

Smell the flowers while you can

Director

1994

Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter

Director

1992

Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea

Dancer

1989

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