Africa, colonialism, the United Nations, the 1961 assassination of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nikita Khrushchev, Tesla, iPhones, and jazz music come together in director Johan Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. The documentary feels like a concert with academic footnotes and references or performance art. It also investigates the filmmaker’s native Belgium’s colonial history and complicity in stifling Congolese independence.
Source: Johan Grimonprez on Doc ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ at San Sebastian