“Who owns our imagination in a world of existential vertigo where truth has become a shipwrecked refugee? Is it not the storyteller who can contain contradictions, who can slip between the languages we have been given and who can become a time-traveller of the imagination?”. These questions will be the starting point of Johan Grimonprez’s masterclass to affectively assess what true colour the sky is.
Grimonprez is known for his films between art and cinema, which mix fiction and documentary through a collage-like, archival approach and weaves new narratives pathways and stories, emphasizing a multiplicity of realities. His practice examines themes such as propaganda, the role of mass media, global power dynamics, and the nature of storytelling questioning the reliability of history and the ways narratives are constructed in the digital and television age. His work forms overall an acute and an indispensable criticism of contemporary media manipulation and of mainstream’s consensus about History.
His famous Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), explores the history of airplane hijackings using found footage, news broadcasts, and literary references, while Double Take (2009), blends Alfred Hitchcock clips, Cold War paranoia, and doppelgänger narratives to comment on media manipulation and fear politics.
His most recent documentary: Soundtrack for a Coup d’Etat (2024) which has been nominated for an Oscar this year, explores the Cold War episode that led American musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
Dates :
June 16, 17, 18th 2025
Maximum 15 students from the Media Art Dept.
+ Maximum 15 students from the Art Research and Media Philosophy Dept.
Contact to register: Professor Hugonnier’s Hiwi Hyeonju Lee: hlee(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de
To register you must commit to all 3 days.
Please indicate which department you are with when you register.
Deadline to register: April 28th, 2025
External participants are:
-The Filmakademie Baden Württemberg: Professor Thomas Lauterbach + 15 students.
-Amna Murtada Khalid Elamin: Artist in residence at the ZKM Video Studio.
This three-day masterclass is organised in parallel of a retrospective of Mister Grimonprez’s work which opens on June 6th 2025 at ZKM.
https://johangrimonprez.be/wp-bio/
https://johangrimonprez.be/main/home.html
Grimonprez is known for his films between art and cinema, which mix fiction and documentary through a collage-like, archival approach and weaves new narratives pathways and stories, emphasizing a multiplicity of realities. His practice examines themes such as propaganda, the role of mass media, global power dynamics, and the nature of storytelling questioning the reliability of history and the ways narratives are constructed in the digital and television age. His work forms overall an acute and an indispensable criticism of contemporary media manipulation and of mainstream’s consensus about History.
His famous Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), explores the history of airplane hijackings using found footage, news broadcasts, and literary references, while Double Take (2009), blends Alfred Hitchcock clips, Cold War paranoia, and doppelgänger narratives to comment on media manipulation and fear politics.
His most recent documentary: Soundtrack for a Coup d’Etat (2024) which has been nominated for an Oscar this year, explores the Cold War episode that led American musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
Dates :
June 16, 17, 18th 2025
Maximum 15 students from the Media Art Dept.
+ Maximum 15 students from the Art Research and Media Philosophy Dept.
Contact to register: Professor Hugonnier’s Hiwi Hyeonju Lee: hlee(at)hfg-karlsruhe.de
To register you must commit to all 3 days.
Please indicate which department you are with when you register.
Deadline to register: April 28th, 2025
External participants are:
-The Filmakademie Baden Württemberg: Professor Thomas Lauterbach + 15 students.
-Amna Murtada Khalid Elamin: Artist in residence at the ZKM Video Studio.
This three-day masterclass is organised in parallel of a retrospective of Mister Grimonprez’s work which opens on June 6th 2025 at ZKM.
https://johangrimonprez.be/wp-bio/
https://johangrimonprez.be/main/home.html
- Dozent/in: Marine Hugonnier