Sunday Night -- 04.27.03 -- Screening -- Grimonprez + Salloum

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please note:

Johan Grimonprez will be
on hand for a discussion
of his much discussed and
riveting work,
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997)
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also, we have adjusted our
schedule from the original
calendar.
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Contents:

1. Basic Info
2. Details

http://www.operationhow.org/calendarnewyork.htm#dial

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1. Basic Info

What: Screening
When: 7:30pm - 10:01pm
Where: 16 Beaver Street

Tonight we will first be screening dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997)
followed by the artist Johan Grimonprez.

For our last screening, we will show Jayce Salloum's, everything and
nothing, part 1 from the continuous tape, "untitled".

details follow.

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2. Details

7:30pm-8:40pm
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997)
Directed by: Johan Grimonprez
Time: 68 minutes
Year: 1997 (2003 DVD)
Language: English

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, fear."

if you would like to read more about the film:

please visit
http://www.operationhow.org/calendarnewyork.htm#dial

9:20-10:01
everything and nothing, part 1 from the continuous tape, "untitled"
Directed by: Jayce Salloum
Time: 41 minutes
Year: 2001 (VHS)
Language: Arabic with English Subtitles

An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of
a figure (of resistance) and subject with, *Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese
National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room taped (during the last
year of the Israeli occupation) one year after her release from captivity
in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had
been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of
resistance, survival and will, recounting to death, separation and
closeness; the overexposed image and body of a surviving martyr speaking
quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed against her self and
image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance between the subject
and the loss, of what is left behind and what remains.

http://www.111101.net/Artworks/JayceSalloum/
http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?SALLOUMJ
http://www.civilisations.ca/cultur/cespays/images/pay2_20p5.jpg
http://www.argosarts.org/exhibition-salloum.html
http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce1.htm
http://www.wwvf.nl/2001/0newarabvideo.htm