Plot Summary:Buckle up for dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9-11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960's. By the 1990s, such characters apparently are no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of state-sponsored suitcase bombs. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo's riff in the novel MAO II: 'what terrorists gain, novelists lose' and 'home is a failed idea', he blends archive hijackings with surreal and banal themes including fast food, pet statistics, disco and his quirky home movies. David Shea wrote the superb soundtrack to this roller coaster through history, best described in the words of one hijacked Pepsi executive as: "running the gamut of many emotions: from surprise to shock, to fear, to joy, to laughter and then again, ...
Johan Grimonprez的Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y录像,以戏謔语调把弄劫机事件。 在作品《拨号历史》(Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y 。1995-7)中, Johan Grimonprez 收集了许多关于劫机的录像,他对这些素材片段进行了剪辑,并最终完成了一部伴随著disco舞曲的影片。在影片中,作者用视觉化的方法对劫机进行了特殊的描写和陈述,或者说,他帮助人们重新审视了那些原始录像片断。有人说,实际上这部影片出现时,其本身就已经向人们作出了关于9-11空难的警示。 幕后: 第十届Documenta参展作品。 当代艺术展览「文件展」(Documenta)位於德国卡塞尔(Kassel),每五年一度、每次歷时一百日。