BAADASSSSS CINEMA

Isaac Julien'S 2002 documentary explores the early days of the so-called Blaxploitation genre movies.

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75

The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement

in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines music,

startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), 

and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, 

musicians and scholars.

Production facts

Writen and Directed by: Göran Hugo Olsson
Produced by: Annika Rogell, Story AB

Co-Produced by: Joslyn Barnes & Danny Glover, Louverture Films

Music by Ahmir Questlove Thompson & Om'Mas Keith.
Executive producer Corey Smyth for Blacksmith Corp

Art Director: Stefania Malmsten

Edited by: Göran Hugo Olsson & Hanna Lejonqvist

The other F word

Directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 2ND, 2011

Another state of mind, 1982

Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands Social Distortion and Youth Brigade as they embark on their first international tour. Along the way they meet up with another progressive punk band, Minor Threat, whom they hang out with at the Dischord house for about a week near the end of their ill-fated tour.

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Interview with Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat

Andy Warhol, by Kim Evans and Lana Jokel, 1986.
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends.



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Watt Stax

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Arte's documentary of the concert:

Arkestra

Sun Ra's "Space is the place", directed by John Coney, 1974, USA
More: http://www.worldheadpress.com/space-is-the-place-0-99.php

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Mean Streets

US Street gangs documentaries excerpts

The jungle. Pt1, late 60s


The jungle, Pt2, late 60s


Savage Skulls, 1972



Youth Terror: The view from behind The Gun, 1976



Street gangs NY



80 blocks from Tiffany's, 1979


Apache Line: from Gangs to Hip Hop, 2004