The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Why this pick
Its recovered television footage and contemporary voices make political history feel materially alive, sharing Spell Reel’s concern with archives as contested records rather than neutral evidence.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its recovered television footage and contemporary voices make political history feel materially alive, sharing Spell Reel’s concern with archives as contested records rather than neutral evidence.
Why this pick
This compact portrait of Ousmane Sembène offers a direct companion in its attention to African cinema as a tool of political consciousness, cultural self-determination and collective memory.
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Akomfrah shapes extensive archival material into a richly associative political biography, matching Spell Reel’s reflective pacing and its fascination with the relationship between moving images and history.
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01 / THE STORY
Filipa César turns his gaze to Guinea-Bissau, where at the beginning of the 1970s the advocates of a militant cinema captured the freedom struggle and the first years of independence.
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