Overview: Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using 'The Birds' as an essential metaphor, DOUBLE TAKE traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images' inception to the present day.
Overview: Grace, a masc-presenting queer actor, is shooting yet another death scene on a low-budget hospital drama—something she blames on her management. But this time, she snaps, arguing her character has more potential. When the director refuses, she storms off set—only to step into a surreal white void. There, she finds a woman in a white power suit behind a desk—an iconic queer actor from her childhood. Spotting headshots scattered across the desk and a whiteboard covered in faces circling the word death, Grace assumes the woman is now an agent.
