In a sequence from the documentary, the first Prime Minister of Congo Patriss Lumba, Soundtrack for a coup,
Johann cannot take the eye away from the screen even for a moment even during the documentary of Grimonpress Soundtrack for a coupGet thick and fast flying for countless intercuts and juice -population. For a case, there should be eager to keep anyone with frantic speed, vigilant ear on which he throws on the American nugget from history during the sixties, when Africa watched a strong-colonial movements. From VK Krishna Menon’s Rauzing speech at the United Nations General Assembly, a stream of images from VK Krishna Menon’s Rauzing speech to Jazz composer Louis Armstrong for the dramatic views of Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev.
Its surface is depicted as part of the ‘soundscape’ package of music documentaries at the 17th international documentary and the short film festival of Kerala (IDSFK), about Jazz music. An array of legendary jazz musicians makes its appearance, everyone makes their presence from Louis Armstrong and Diji Gillespie to Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, Art Blacky and Quincy Jones. But some of them, possibly without their knowledge, were used by the American establishment and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), for a cultural victory of Africa, to divert attention from imperialist Xinigons in these parts.
Thus the documentary works in the sweet, or rather sour, where Jazz music, politics, history and colonial victory come together. Jazz makes adhesive between different varieties of a complex story spread worldwide. It has western victory in the Congo, its mineral is valuable for deposit. With the grip of Belgium on the Congo laxity, we get in the picture. Using some rare archival footage, the film performs Chronicles during this period, which ends in the CIA-supported murder of the first Prime Minister of Congo, Patris Lumba, provides additional dramatic touch to the story with Jazz music.
For Indian audiences, footage of Jawaharlal Nehru and Krishna Menon intervene on the world stage during the heights of non-union movement, at a time there may be a fresh clock when this particular history is coming out of our memories. With archival footage, music performance, official records and its clever use of materials from many books, Soundtrack for a coup Indicates new directions in which the filmmaking film film is going on.
Kevin McDonalds One to one: John and YokoAnother documentary in the package, The Lives of Musician John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono of the Post-Beatles era. It is again more about music, but talks about all the hatred that Ono talks about one of the reasons for many social and political interventions as one of the reasons for the breakdown of Beatles after facing the society. This bare the heat that he faced with the then US President Richard Nixon, including the threat of exile for his political positions. One of the highlights is the footage restored from Lennon’s concert for the benefit of intellectual disabled children, which were then held in a fully neglect in a feature in Wilobrook.
Michael Ogden’s Madonna The pop icon reveals less known aspects. The documentary peeled out the stories spread by the Yellow Press and at one time spotted its brave support for the gay community when their reason was not yet accepted in the mainstream. She comes in the documentary as a woman who never left her ideals in front of intensive social and political pressure.
Published – August 26, 2025 07:57 pm IST