Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: The Revolution Will Be Documented

I think the reason I love cinema so much is that, as a medium, it possesses the most potential for uniting the world. While we watch a DVD of a French film at home, sit in a theater being washed over by the images of an Italian B & W classic, or surreptitiously check out the recent download of a Bollywood movie on our iPad, we are undeniably transported to other lands, other eras and, most importantly, other ways of looking at things. But while the promise is there every time we choose a title, few films achieve the grand objective of forever changing our mind and enriching our world permanently.
Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson's documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is one of those once-in-a-lifetime films which seamlessly reaches the full cinematic goal of changing its viewers' world for good. Face to face, the stylish, understatedly handsome Olsson is quick to point out that with The Black Power Mixtape "I am not trying to tell the story about the Black Power movement. I'm telling the story of how it was perceived in Sweden. So it's an outsider's look, from outsiders' material." As we sit inside a Soho eatery sipping coffee, in the quiet off hours of the afternoon, he continues "Erykah Badu, in the film, says that we have to tell our own stories, but this is my story. This is the Swedish story of this period in US history."
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