Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

by Johan Grimonprez
150 mins| 2024|
7:00 pm

A story about the encounter of American Jazz and African decolonisation, via the UN and the CIA, with a lot of world around it.

Featuring among others Patrice Lumumba, Krishna Menon, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Nikita Khrushchev, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Abbey Lincoln, Adou Elenga...

A VHS cassette sits somewhere in CAMP with the title Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.
A recent studio visitor writes:
Many of us remember when we were first exposed to Johan Grimonprez’s Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the perhaps-too-prescient late-90s meditation on airplane hijacking that validated our obsession with archives, that turned archive fever into poetry. We relished its availability on Ubu. Some 25 years later, the white noise is black and blue with the pain of ongoing colonial violence, the editing techniques are refined, and the focus is both more ambitious and more urgent. While the assassination of Patrice Lumumba is the ostensible subject of Grimonprez’s Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, this is not a biopic and certainly not a hagiography. John Coltrane is quoted after seeing Malcolm X in Harlem: “I think music can create the initial change in the thinking of the people.” Soundtrack shows the betrayal of international governance and postcolonial sovereignty with the often-unwitting cooperation of American jazz greats, but instead of being merely another depressing portrait of Western power, the backbeat reminds us that political solidarity is a performance of heart with a furious rhythm—that art, humanity, and liberation are irresistibly linked.
- Rob M Ochshorn

As part of Around the World, Again, a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.

This screening is now full and we can't accommodate any more RSVP, thanks.

The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

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6:30 pm*

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7:00 pm

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
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Around the World Again

Join us for a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.
We begin the year with
GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes
2024, 120 mins.
7:00 pm.
in memorium, Tejas Pande.

Evenings at CAMP Rooftop

A roof-top venue that has been active since 2007, in this location since 2009.

Far from Philadelphia

Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.

Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)
We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)

THE NEW MEDIUM II - FOOTAGE FILMS

14 films and three live events that explode the relationship between Footage and Films into a galaxy of possibilities.
Curated by Shaina Anand
at MAMI
October 12 to October 18, 2017

A Season of Footage and Films

CAMP presents Saturday or Sunday evening screenings through winter,
exploring footage both within and outside the usual capsule of "the
film". An experience that could be similar to watching films, or at
other times harder to digest, or slower to release, closer to the moment of
shooting, less censorious, and less fearful of finitude. Another life,
another world of viewing and listening experiences is always possible.

A Season of Footage and Films Part 9. Four Times Bob.

on Saturday, February 19th7:00 pm onwardsCAMP roofFour Times BobA cut of four films on Bob Dylan.100 mins.



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Film screening, and conversation
6-8:00 pm

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Lost Homeland of Sindh
Dara Shukoh Library

Ulhasnagar Matrix is a permanent installation at the Partition Museum at the Dara Shukoh Library. Other interventions into the Lost Homeland of Sindh gallery include Windows to Sindh and From the Film Archive.

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