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Audience Member Kunstdokumentarfilm. Voldsomt, men med mange kule klipp. Sikkert morsommere etter 2001. Eller ikke like morsom før. Ja. For jeg sÃÂ¥ den jo nÃÂ¥. ..Dere skjønner sikkert hva jeg mener. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member A visionary documentary on the history of sky jacking from 1999. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member I first saw this at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago a few years ago in a small back room. Completed in 1998, director Grimonprez sets images of terrorism and hijacking from the 60s through 98 set to narration from Don DeLillo's Mao II. Riffing off the idea that "home is a failed idea" this post-modern account of fear and terror is hauntingly interwoven with home movies and advertisements. All that and yes, raw archival footage of planes crashing set to disco--it works as art and documentary on many levels. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A video installation I saw at Galerie der Gegenwart in Hamburg years ago. Made before 9/11, it is an artistic view on terrorism in civil aviation. Official distributor description: "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 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." Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member a history of plane hi-jacking set to disco. for whatever reason it just works. (produced in 1998 by the way) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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