Cinema session

This film session begins with the presentation of artist Lucía G. Romero’s short film Cura sana (2023), featured in the exhibition, introduced in her own voice. We then delve into the work of Johan Grimonprez with Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2024), which, to the rhythm of jazz, narrates one of the key chapters of the Cold War and the national liberation processes of the Global South.
 

Cura sana, 2023, 18’

Director: Lucía G. Romero
Screenplay: Lucía G. Romero
Cinematography: Gemma de Miquel Morell
Editing: Marina Ayet
Sound: Jimmy Solórzano
Music: Oriol Brunet
Cast: Roser Rendon Ena, Rasvely Lissette Donaire Restituyo, Yaneys Cabrera Ramírez, Leisam Ramos Rodríguez, Nora Guarro Molina, Evelyn Lissete Restituyo Nivar, Ana Barja

Jessica is a fourteen-year-old teenager living on the outskirts of Barcelona. Her father’s abuse since childhood has turned her into an irritable girl with a tough shell, even towards her eight-year-old sister, Alma. Due to a misunderstanding, Jessica must take charge of collecting the food from Caritas together with her sister on the day of Sant Joan. Throughout this journey with Alma, Jessica realizes she does not want to become like her father and begins to treat her younger sister with love rather than violence.
 

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, 2024, 2 h 30’

Director: Johan Grimonprez
Producers: Daan Milius, Rémi Grellety
Writer: Johan Grimonprez
Screenplay: Johan Grimonprez
Cinematography: Jonathan Wannyn
Editing: Rik Chaubet
Narrators: In Koli Jean Bofane, Zap Mama, Patrick Cruise O'Brien, among others

Set to the rhythm of jazz, this film offers a rewriting of the Cold War episode in which two musicians broke into the UN to protest the assassination of the man who dreamed of —and made possible— a free Congo: Patrice Lumumba. In 1960, the UN Security Council meets while Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach protest against U.S. policies, Khrushchev denounces racial discrimination, and the United States sends Armstrong to the Congo amid the anti-colonial coup.

Curatorial Coordination by Nancy Garín and Ingrid Blanco 


Nancy Garín

Nancy Garín Guzmán (Valparaíso, 1972), journalist and art historian, works on projects related to critical thinking, new pedagogies, memory, and decolonialism. She has been part of the collectives Etcétera and the Internacional Errorista, as well as research groups such as Península: Colonial Processes and Artistic and Curatorial Practices, Contraimaginarios (Post-pandemics), Equipo re, Espectros de lo Urbano, and Cosmografías. She currently combines research with teaching in critical and experimental pedagogies.

Ingrid Blanco

Ingrid Blanco Díaz (Havana, 1972) is an art historian, focused on the historical forms of construction and representation of racialized identities. She has been part of the Group of Thought, Practices, and Afro/Black Activisms associated with MACBA and has worked as a curator in institutions such as the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, the Havana Biennial, the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, and as assistant curator at the 3rd Berlin Biennale alongside Ute Meta Bauer, as well as in the local context at Sala Muncunill, Sant Andreu Contemporani, and Sala d’Art Jove. She is currently the academic coordinator of the PEI/MACBA.