The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is a fascinating chronological collage of 16mm footage originally shot for Swedish television, but left dormant until the director Göran Hugo Olsson reassembled the material as a “Documentary in 9 Chapters” which “does not presume to tell the whole story of the Black Power Movement, but to show how it was perceived by some Swedish filmmakers.” The film incorporates a funk music soundtrack and new voiceover materials interspersed throughout by Erykah Badu, Robin Kelley, Talib Kweli, Abiodun Oyewole, Harry Belafonte, and Angela Davis, among others. Disarming and intense, it becomes a haunting visual evocation of meaningful responses to a turbulent historical period. A must see.
