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DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY APRIL 15\nA reception will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the 
 BAM Theater Gallery, where the photography exhibit The Black Panthers 1968: 
 Photographs by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones is on view. \n7:00  
 Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther\nWilliam Klein (France/Algeria, 
 1970)\nIntroduced by Kathleen Cleaver\nKathleen Cleaver has spent most of 
 her life participating in the struggle for human rights, from the Student 
 Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party in the late 
 1960s through her present work with the Southern Center for Human Rights 
 and as Senior Lecturer at Emory University’s Law School. She is Executive 
 Director of the International Black Panther Film Festival. \nIn 1969, with 
 an uncanny sense of political timing, William Klein filmed an interview 
 with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, then living in exile in Algeria. Klein 
 garnished Cleaver’s words with graphic titles, archival film, and 
 documentary footage; the result is a singular portrait of black activism, 
 very much of its time. Klein met Cleaver at the Panafrican Cultural 
 Festival in 1969; the film was made soon after at the request of Cleaver 
 and the Algerian government. But if Cleaver is the film’s hero, he is 
 also very much, and very consciously, its antihero. As Irwin Silber wrote 
 in The Guardian, “Cleaver, on film as in life, is a complex mixture of 
 profound political insight, socially crystallized ghetto cultural patterns 
 and a multifaceted human personality… [I]t is clear that Cleaver himself 
 is aware of the fact that he is not the new man but a spawn of a very sick, 
 very rotten social order and that his own claim on humanity rests on his 
 willingness to serve as an instrument for that social order’s 
 destruction.”\n• (75 mins, Color, 35mm, From Walker Art Center, with 
 thanks to Dean Otto, permission William Klein)\nPreceded by:\nMayday! 
 (Newsreel, U.S., 1969). Documents an historic rally calling for the freeing 
 of Huey P. Newton. (15 mins, B&W, 16mm, From Canyon Cinema)\nFeature 
 followed by:\nAmerican Exile (Cassandra Herrman, Katy Shrout, U.S., 2001). 
 Artists in Person. Reveals the story of Pete O’Neal, a former Black 
 Panther leader from Kansas City, who has been in exile in Africa for 30 
 years. (26 mins, Video, From the filmmakers)\n• (Total running time: 116 
 mins plus discussion)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/16973.php
SUMMARY:Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater: 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/16973.php
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