What makes up the material of history? The documentary filmmaker Heise explores this question in a compelling collage of filmed images of Berlin, spanning a 20-year period from the late 1980s to the present. Drawing on his own archive of footage and outtakes, Heise brings together striking scenes that were never shown but yet lingered in his memory. In this way he constructs a personal, cinematic vision of East Germany
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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.
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