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Title: |
The Black Power Mix Tape: 1967-1975 |
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African American History Month at Cinema Arts Centre |
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Date: |
February 22, 2012 |
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7:30 PM
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| Admission: | $9.00 for members; $13.00 for the public (except Pariah shows, regular admission). Event tickets can be purchased online, www.cinemaartscentre.org at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. |
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Location: |
Cinema Arts Centre |
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Street Address: |
423 Park Avenue |
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Huntington, NY 11743 |
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Description: |
In Person: Jamal Joseph, member of New York Black Panther 2l, filmmaker and Chair of the Columbia University Film School. He will be interviewed by Warrington Hudlin, filmmaker, film curator and internet producer. He is President of the Black Filmmakers Foundation. Mr. Joseph will be signing his new book, Panther Baby.
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 among other things is an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research, and takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early ‘70s Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States with the intention of “showing the country as it really is.” Some of the images and interviews they collected have been assembled by Goran Hugo Olsson into a roughly chronological collage that restores a complex human dimension to the racial history of the era. The film begins at a moment when the concept of black power was promoted by Stokely Carmichael, a veteran of the freedom rides early.
in the decade, who, like many young activists, had grown frustrated with the Gandhian, nonviolent philosophy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Carmichael, who later moved to Guinea and took the name Kwame Ture, is remembered for the militancy of his views and his confrontational, often slashingly witty speeches, but the Swedish cameras captured another side of him. In the most touching and arresting scene in “Mixture” he interviews his mother, Mabel, gently prodding her to talk about the effects of poverty and discrimination on her family. So how much has changed and how has the change taken place. How did we get from the America of Stokely Carmichael to the America of Barack Obama? We will see and hear commentaries from Harry Belafonte, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Danny Glover, Bobby Seale among others. Sweden, 2011, 100 minutes. |
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631-423-7611 |
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