“Black is Honest and Beautiful.” This is the opening line of Agnes Varda’s blasting film on the Black Panthers Party and their vision for a new cultural and political revolution – which she shot with a 16mm camera she borrowed from Berkeley University activists in California. As she was present in a rally in Oakland, where people demonstrated against the arrest of one of the party founders, she surrenders to the crowds’ energy, without losing her sharp gaze on the international political scene.
Black Panthers
Black Panthers
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Agnès Varda
- Cinematography: David Myers, Paul Aratow, John Shofill, Agnès Varda
- Editing: Paddy Monk
- Sound: Paul Oppenheim, James Steward
- Production: Ciné-Tamaris
- Producers: Agnès Varda
- Format: DCP
- Color: B&W
- Production Country: France
- Production Year: 1968
- Duration: 28'
- Contact: Ciné-Tamaris, cine-tamaris@wanadoo.fr
Agnès Varda
Filmography
1963 Salut les Cubains
1967 Oncle Yanco | Uncle Yanco
1968 Black Panthers
1975 Daguerréotypes
1981 Mur murs| Murals
1984 Les dites cariatides |The So-Called Caryatids
2000 Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse | The Gleaners and I
2008 Les plages d'Agnès
2017 Visages Villages | Faces Places
