About the Event
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
(Belgium, 2024, 150 min.)
Friday, February 21, 7:00pm
Saturday, February 22, 7:00pm
From the extraordinary director of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Double Take Johan Gimonprez a documentary that presents the true face of culture war: in February of 1961 Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash a UN Security Council meeting to demand answers about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. The film presents many of the greatest geniuses of jazz including Mingus, Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Nina Simon, Louis Armstrong and their responses to the interference in Africa by the CIA.
“A searing video-essay… Watching the doc evokes the same intellectual and visceral feeling one gets from reading a dense work of nonfiction…For many it will be an eye-opener” — Marye E. Gates, RogerEbert.com
Free and open to the public.
Discounted parking available in Founder’s Court lot, $6 flat fee, credit card required.
