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Bushman / produced by the Bushman Company in association with the American Film Institute ; directed by David Schickele.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Schickele, David, 1937-1999, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
Chinlund, Jennifer, editor of moving image work.
Myers, David, 1914-2004, director of photography.
Okpokam, Eyamnzie, actor.
Featherstone, Elaine, actor.
Near, Timothy, actor.
Nance, Jack, actor.
Scofield, Ann, actor.
Bushman Company, production company.
American Film Institute, production company.
Kino Lorber, distributor.
Standardized Title:
Bushman (Motion picture : 1971)
Language:
English
Undetermined
Subjects (All):
Nigerians--United States--Drama.
Nigerians.
College students--United States--Drama.
College students.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980--Drama.
United States.
San Francisco State University--Foreign students--Drama.
San Francisco State University.
San Francisco State University--Student strike,1968--Drama.
Black power--United States--Drama.
Black power.
Genre:
Documentary-style films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (74 minutes)) : sound, black and white.
monochrome
Distribution:
[New York, NY] : Kino Lorber, 2022.
Place of Publication:
[United States] : [Bushman Company], [1971]
Language Note:
In English with brief dialogue in an undetermined Nigerian language and English closed captions.
System Details:
digital
Summary:
1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined - poetic in its approach to real events. As Gabriel attends San Francisco State College, we are immediately struck by the exciting juxtaposition of African outlooks and California urban life. For the first time in American cinema, an educated African elucidates in a no-nonsense manner the bewildering ineptness of American society to live humanistically.
Participant:
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, Elaine Featherstone, Timothy Near, Jack Nance, Ann Scofield.
Credits:
Photographer, David Myers ; editors, Jennifer Chinlund, David Schickele ; screenwriter, David Schickele.
Notes:
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on March 4, 2024).
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971.
OCLC:
1423697263
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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