From my interview with Johan Grimonprez for Documentary Magazine's Spring 2025 issue:
No summary could ever do justice to what Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez has created through his audiovisual-textual collage Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2024). Although the internet is already populated with numerous texts comparing this creative documentary to a jazz suite, often using aural adjectives such as thrumming, buzzing, and beating, written language seems to fall short in capturing what Grimonprez describes as “cinematic space” and all that…
