Jazz Eank film “Soundtrack to a Coup d ‘Etat”: A brilliant thoughts experiment – culture

Postcolonialism, civil rights movement and jazz were revolutions that still work today. The Oscarnominated essay film “Soundtrack to a Coup D ‘Etat” bundles a complicated time for a profitable overall picture.

The essay film has been forgotten a little since the pioneering years of Alexander Kluge or Alain Resnais. That is why you have to find a little bit in Johan Grimonprezʼ “Soundtrack to a Coup d ‘Etat” until you can follow the pulse with which he interweaves the revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s into a braid from politics and culture. Postcolonialism, civil rights movement and jazz then merge into a historically logical continuum. The effect is a little like back then when, as a teenager, with a film by Jean-Luc Godard, a novel by William S. Burroughs or a record from Ornette Coleman, you can experience what it can be for an intellectual thrill if you have practiced narrative forms And break apart.