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B-Side, Track 7: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat — with Johan Grimonprez
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On this episode of the Below the Radar B-Sides, we鈥檙e joined by Johan Grimonprez, a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator whose film Soundtrack to a Coup d鈥橢tat was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary at the 97th Academy Awards.
Am and Johan discuss Johan鈥檚 past video work, and what Johan discovered along the way in creating and sharing Soundtrack to a Coup d鈥橢tat.
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Johan Grimonprez
Who owns our imagination in a world of existential vertigo where truth has become a shipwrecked refugee? Is it the storyteller who can contain contradictions, who can slip between the languages we have been given to become a time-traveler of the imagination?
Johan Grimonprez鈥檚 critically acclaimed work dances on the borders of theory and practice, between art and cinema, beyond the dualisms of documentary and fiction, other and self, mind and brain to weave new pathways and stories, emphasizing a multiplicity of realities. Informed by an archeology of present-day media, his work depicts intimate stories that brush up against the bigger picture of globalization. It questions our collective imagination and the contemporary sublime, one framed by a fear industry that has infected political and social dialogue.
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Johal, Am. 鈥淪oundtrack to a Coup d鈥橢tat 鈥� with Johan Grimonprez.鈥� Below the Radar, SFU鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 21, 2025. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/btr-bsides-johan-grimonprez.html.
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