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Mon Feb 13
7 pm
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 at UWM Union Theatre
In the late ’60s, a group of radicalized Swedish filmmakers and journalists started traveling to the United States on a regular basis to tell “the real story” of what was going on in America, by following African-American activists like Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton. The subjects of these Swedes’ cameras didn’t always trust their European interrogators, seeing their fascination with blacks as a marginalized “other” as racism of a different kind. Göran Olsson’s documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 touches on the story behind these filmed reports. Olsson has discovered a treasure-trove of footage of the Black Power movement in the Swedish TV archives, and he strings together some of the most compelling interviews and vignettes, showing how the early promise of civil rights was sidetracked by infighting, black-on-black crime, and drug addiction.
UWM Union Theatre 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
In the late ’60s, a group of radicalized Swedish filmmakers and journalists started traveling to the United States on a regular basis to tell “the real story” of what was going on in America, by following African-American activists like Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton. The subjects of these Swedes’ cameras didn’t always trust their European interrogators, seeing their fascination with blacks as a marginalized “other” as racism of a different kind. Göran Olsson’s documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 touches on the story behind these filmed reports. Olsson has discovered a treasure-trove of footage of the Black Power movement in the Swedish TV archives, and he strings together some of the most compelling interviews and vignettes, showing how the early promise of civil rights was sidetracked by infighting, black-on-black crime, and drug addiction.
Updated 01/31/2012
