Johan Grimonprez: screening of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Still from dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Johan Grimonprez, 1997, 68 minute loop.
Courtesy: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and Zapomatik, Brussels.

The Sean Kelly Gallery is pleased to announce that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will be screening Johan Grimonprez's dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y this summer in conjunction with their exhibition Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. The film will be screened on July 23, July 30 and August 6 at 1:00, 2:15, and 3:30 pm in the New Media Theatre, located in the lower level of the museum in the Sackler Center for Arts Education. The museum is located at 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street; the screening is free with museum admission.

dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, which prefigured the terrorist attacks of September 11, blends a wide array of found and constructed sources to create a chronology of the history of airplane hijackings since the 1960s. Grimonprez uses archival news footage and clips from science fiction films along with his own constructed imagery and scenes in order to illuminate the impact of the media's presentation of terrorism on our collective memory and experience.