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THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975
Dir. Göran Hugo Olsson (2011)
In the early 2000s, Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson discovered approximately 300 hours of 16mm footage in the basement of Swedish Television, Sweden’s public service broadcaster. The material had been shot between 1967 and 1975 by Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power movement in the United States, then archived and "forgotten" for over thirty years. What Olsson found was nothing short of extraordinary: An interview with Angela Davis in her jail cell days before her trial. Stokely Carmichael interviewing his own mother, unprecedented footage of Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale speaking candidly about the Black Panther Party, and so much more.
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 compiles this rediscovered footage chronologically, year by year, and Olsson layers the archive with contemporary commentary from artists and organizers like Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Questlove, and more. In so doing, the film crafts a conversation across decades, the 60s speaking to the early 2010s and of course speaking to us now.
Featured in REFERENCES, a research film series curated by Max Diallo Jakobsen for the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC) in Nov-Dec 2025.
A screening of the film was held in the library of LuCAC, followed by a short presentation and open discussion.
Thursday, 18th December | 18:00 hours
Free & open to all