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Play/Time #2: DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Director: Johan Grimonprez
Year: 1998
Time: 68’
Country: Belgium
Language: English
Type: Color

Shown initially at Documenta X, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is a story about the history of aircraft hijacking and media. A tragic news item becomes banal screen spectacle, informing of events but at the same time causing them, stimulating them to evolve in a particular direction, to the extent that the aim of some hijacks was simply to attract the attention of the media, with telling circularity.