Film
Eldridge Cleaver: Black Panther + Black Panthers
- 9:15PM
Dir. Agnès Varda
1968, 28min, DCP
Made while French New Wave giant Agnès Varda was living in California, this on-the-ground documentary chronicles an Oakland demonstration in which Black Panther Party members rally for the freedom of imprisoned cofounder Huey P. Newton.
Dir. William Klein
1970, 73min, 35mm
One of the most complex, charismatic, and controversial figures to emerge as a Black Panther leader, Eldridge Cleaver, who served as the party’s Minister of Information, offers his candid thoughts on revolution, the Vietnam War, the relationship between American and African liberation movements, and his life as an exile in Algeria.
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