![]() ![]() But this also means that certain elements are lost in translation, or seemingly misunderstood. One of the more interesting factors here is that all the footage is presented in a completely Swedish context, meaning that scenes of poverty in Harlem are framed in much the same way that American TV news would present starvation in Ethiopia. A jailhouse interview with cause celebre Angela Davis displays the wrongly accused professor’s intense erudition even in the face of appalling treatment a black-and-white segment of famed activist Stokely Carmichael interviewing his own mother is touching and a sit-down chat with Louis Farrakhan on the eve of his rise to power in the Nation of Islam shows the leader’s serpentine charm already eerily intact. ![]() Covering the period from the rise of the Black Power movement to the beginning of the inner-city drug plague that tore it apart, the filmmakers have excavated some remarkable moments from the archives. ![]()
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