Film and Video Umbrella

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Looking for Alfred

Essays by Patricia Allmer, Thomas Elsaesser and Tom McCarthy. Texts by Jorge L. Borges, Jeff Noon and Slavoj Zizek. Interview by Chris Darke.

'Looking for Alfred' is a large-format 288-page book which documents the various elements, and stages, of Johan Grimonprez's project of the same name, which uses film, video and photography, as well as storyboards and other drawings by the artist, in an imaginative pursuit of the multi-faceted legacy of Alfred Hitchcock. The publication, lavishly illustrated throughout, features new essays by well-known writers and academics such as Tom McCarthy, Thomas Elsaesser and Patricia Allmer, and retraces the themes of the lookalike and the double that recur in Grimonprez's work, and are such a feature of Hitchcock's own oeuvre.

'Looking for Alfred' is published by Film and Video Umbrella, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Pinakothek der Moderne and Zapomatik, with the support of Theo Wormland Stiftung, Arts Council England, The Flemish Authorities, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels and SMAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent. With additional support from Sean Kelly Gallery and Deitch Projects.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Looking for Alfred', Johan Grimonprez, at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich May 10 - August 19, 2007

210 x 270mm, portrait
Hardback
288 pp

Associated Projects with Johan Grimonprez:

Looking for Alfred, 2004