“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” has a powerful opportunity to teach us something about our American past, but the film, which had its world premiere at Sundance Jan. 21, needed a stronger guiding hand and voice to reach its full potency.
The documentary is crafted around footage shot by Swedish journalists from 1967-1975 as they attempted to understand the Black Experience in America. The 16mm material, which surfaced 30 years later, and director Goran Olsson uses it as the basis for his 96-minute film.The footage veers from produced pieces that aired on Swedish television to talking head interviews with blacks about their daily living experiences in places like Harlem, as well as film of civil rights leaders and activists coming to Sweden.
The documentary is crafted around footage shot by Swedish journalists from 1967-1975 as they attempted to understand the Black Experience in America. The 16mm material, which surfaced 30 years later, and director Goran Olsson uses it as the basis for his 96-minute film.The footage veers from produced pieces that aired on Swedish television to talking head interviews with blacks about their daily living experiences in places like Harlem, as well as film of civil rights leaders and activists coming to Sweden.
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