Memory Is The Future in Reverse

In the organizer's words:

The collaboration between the artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez and the writer Tom McCarthy - particularly in the film "Double Take" (2009) and the short film "From Satin Island" (2015) - is a fascinating mixture of literary experiment and visual art. Whether through the cinematic déjà vu in which Alfred Hitchcock meets his doppelganger, or through a poetic, abstract reflection on catastrophe and identity, the two create multi-layered works that explore themes such as doubling, our contemporary dystopian media landscape, existential randomness and the traumatic depths of modern life.

In their conversation, Johan Grimonprez and Tom McCarthy will make exciting connections between their current fields of work and engage in a profound dialog that jumps from Greek tragedies to modern advertising, from Hitchcock to Freud, and uses archival films as disruptions to our collective imagination to raise such difficult questions as: Who writes history? Can memory be predictive? Is memory really the future in reverse order or is imagination the past in fast-forward?

The event will be moderated by Matthias Bruhn, Professor of Art Studies and Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG)