Sister Angela: Black Power Remixed & Reloaded

Angela Davis went from being a University Professor to being number three on the FBI's ten most wanted list. The passion and the struggles of the time seem troublingly familiar for contemporary audiences as the political and cultural struggles of the 60s and 70s are revisited in two very different ways. Angela Davis features prominently in this stirring double bill of political resistance (extremely rare documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners screens earlier in the day at 14:00) and the fight for basic human rights.

From 1967 to 1975 a team of Swedish journalists chronicled America's civil rights movement, only for their footage to languish in a cellar for decades. Thirty years later, their extraordinary 16mm material including Stokely Carmichael's tour of Europe, the Black Panther headquarters and a passionate interview with Angela Davis in jail (all highlights in a treasure trove of film) has been combined with recent commentary from leading black artists and activists to create a piercing documentation of the movement's life and legacy backed by a great soundtrack from The Roots' Questlove. A fascinating, important look at issues - war, class, racism - that still affect America today.

With an introduction by Come The Revolution curators Liz Chege and Adam Murray.

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