Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - a Film by Johan Grimonprez

Described as the world's first unofficial chronicle of skyjacking, this pre 9/11 documentary is an alternately frisky and subversive tour of terrorism from the idealistic hijacker revolutionaries of the 1960s and 1970s to the state sponsored, anonymous parcel bombs of the 1990s.

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Described as the world's first unofficial chronicle of skyjacking, this pre 9/11 documentary will take you on an alternately frisky and subversive tour of terrorism from the idealistic heyday of the romantic hijacker revolutionaries of the 1960s and 1970s to the state sponsored, anonymous parcel bombs of the 1990s. Blending archive footage with personal home movies, this film investigates the media politics within the "imagination of disaster". Inspired by Don DeLillo's novel "Mao II", it is a riff on DeLillo's motif, "Home is a failed idea". Director Johan Grimonprez unwraps our complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster, as the spectacle of international terrorism and the desire for ultimate disaster invades the living room to threaten our domestic bliss. New York composer David Shea wrote the original soundtrack to this eccentric rollercoaster ride through history. Premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, this film was acclaimed as the most exceptional entry at the Documenta X in Kasel. The film was awarded the Golden Spire at the San Francisco Film Festival and the Director's Choice at Images, Toronto.