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DO 05.05.05
WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY (VS)
VRIJ 06.05.05
Volxkeuken
ZA 07.05.05
Kontra Cinema
"Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y"
VRIJ 13.05.05
Volxkeuken
ZA 14.05.05
Kontra Cinema
"The Corporation"
VRIJ 20.05.05
Volxkeuken
ZA 21.05.05
Kontra Cinema
Jan Svankmajer + the brothers Quay
VRIJ 27.05.05
Volxkeuken
The Ultra-Dead Buzzes of Heat festival
ZA 28.05.05
The Ultra-Dead Buzzes of Heat festival
ZATERDAG 7.05.2005
Film
Kontra Cinema
"Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y"
20:00

Johan Grimonprez (1998)

 

"...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."

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