This reader brings together the most insightful dialogues and critiques on the work of Johan Grimonprez (*1962 in Belgium) and assembles for the very first time, fragments of the film scripts. Kobarweng or Where is Your Helicopter? strikes at the heart of what constitutes a bastard child of colonialism: the legacy of anthropological discourse. dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y unwraps the hidden dimensions of our mediatized culture in terms of the news spectacle and its cultivation of fear, oblivion and catastrophe. Double Take uses the image of Alfred Hitchcock to navigate through a bedazzling doubling of cinema with television, capitalism with communism, and commercials with warfare. Maybe the Sky is Really Green, and We’re Just Colorblind serves as sketchbook for Johan Grimonprez with which he expands on existing themes and explores new ones.
