Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez

Born 1962
Belgium

Biography

Grimonprez, artist and filmmaker, is visiting professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York and otherwise works in Brussels. He garnered a great deal of attention in 1999 for his video collage Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, which won him Best Director awards at the international film festivals in San Francisco and Toronto. Grimonprez’s short film Looking for Alfred (2005), a kind of sketch for Double Take, won the Spirit Award New York, the International Media Prize for Science and Art ZKM Karlsruhe (2005) and the European Media Award 2006.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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