The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: This stunning documentary is about as close to perfect as a film can get. Assembled from a cache of original footage found in Swedish TV archives, it presents the Black Power movement as it should be seen, transparently, without establishment 'enhancements.' Gracious, perfectly-pitched to the intellectual caliber of its material, it explores events, issues, and personalities in considerable depth. And what personalities! See it for the interview with Angela Davis alone. Or the early speeches of Stokely Carmichael. Because characters like theirs are given so much unmediated airtime, their charisma touches what is already an exquisitely beautiful, brilliantly organized and powerful film with something approaching genius.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
SFIFF54: 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975'
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: This stunning documentary is about as close to perfect as a film can get. Assembled from a cache of original footage found in Swedish TV archives, it presents the Black Power movement as it should be seen, transparently, without establishment 'enhancements.' Gracious, perfectly-pitched to the intellectual caliber of its material, it explores events, issues, and personalities in considerable depth. And what personalities! See it for the interview with Angela Davis alone. Or the early speeches of Stokely Carmichael. Because characters like theirs are given so much unmediated airtime, their charisma touches what is already an exquisitely beautiful, brilliantly organized and powerful film with something approaching genius.
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