Johan Grimonprez

Biography

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. Grimonprez was born in 1962 in Roeselare, Belgium. After studying cultural anthropology, he went on to complete his studies in photography and mixed media at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Grimonprez received an MFA in Video & Mixed Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1993, Grimonprez was accepted into Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and later attended the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands. In 1993, Grimonprez worked on the series Besmette Stad for the program Ziggurat on Belgian television. His films are characterised by a criticism of contemporary media manipulation, described as: "an …

Directed

1. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024) — Director
2. Shadow World (2016) — Director
3. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) — Director
4. Double Take (2009) — Director
5. Two Travellers to a River (2018) — Director
6. Looking for Alfred (2005) — Director
7. Renegade TV Gets Dazed (1998) — Director
8. What I Will (2013) — Director
9. Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter (1992) — Director
10. Three Thoughts on Terror (2018) — Director
11. Every Day Words Disappear (2015) — Director
12. Four Chambers to the Heart (2023) — Director
13. LOST NATION, January 1999 (1999) — Director
14. Raymond Tallis - On Tickling (2017) — Director
15. Blue Orchids (2017) — Director
16. Hitchcock Didn’t Have a Belly Button: Karen Black Interview by Johan Grimonprez (2009) — Director
17. Comment filmer Molenbeek? (1994) — Director
18. Smell the flowers while you can (1994) — Director
19. kiss-o-drome (2016) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ghent, 10 June 1989, for Geraldine Nerea (1989) — Dancer