The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Reviewed in December 2011
Director: Göran Hugo Olsson. Reassembled documentary collage of African-American activist footage from 1967 to 1975, filmed at the time by Swedish news reporters and documentarians, and narrated and reflected upon by contemporary African-American activists, artists, and historians.
Twitter Capsule: Extant footage impresses more than assembly, but it's potent stuff, stirring as memory and goad

Photo © 2011 Sundance Selects/Louverture Films/Story AB
Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B


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