CULTURAL NATIONALISM
Skip Norman, USA/Germany, 16mm > digital, 11 min, 1969 Black Power on a snowy meadow in West Berlin. Speech by Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
Skip Norman (1933–2015). Filmmaker, photographer, and cinematographer originally from Baltimore, Maryland; relocated to Germany in the 1960s where he made numerous films of his own or in collaboration with artists including Harun Farocki, Holger Meins, and Helke Sander; continued working as cinematographer on projects by Haile Gerima, Nikki Giovanni, and others upon returning to the USA. Retrospective of his films organized by Open City Documentary Festival in 2023.
