Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Scene from the film Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Direction
Year 
2003
Country
  • Belgium
  • France
Runtime
68min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

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 and 1970's. By the 1990's, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases. 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 his novel Mao II: "what terrorists gain, novelists lose" and "home is a failed idea", he blends archival footage of hijackings with surreal and banal themes, including fast food, pet statistics, disco, and his quirky home movies. David Shea composed the superb soundtrack to this free fall 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, fear."


Subtitles are available for download only in DVD format.

Details

  • Original Title
    Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Johan Grimonprez
  • Cinematography
    Anouk Declercq, Lieven van Baelen, Karen Vanderborght
  • Editing
    Luc Lavault, Fanny Soubirou
  • Music
    David Shea
  • Sound
    Nicolas Joly
  • Runtime
    68 min (46-90 min.)
  • Year
    2003
  • Country
    • Belgium
    • France
  • Format
    • Colour

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