https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/6eabae77-ac36-4050-a5c6-3bff9779b80c 'Black Panthers' France, 1968, Agnès Varda Language Audio: English, Subs: N/A “If other films have been made on this subject by black people, they have remained more or less in their boxes. It is the only film in favor of black extremism shown commercially in America (Editor's note: in fact only in film clubs and universities). It is an incendiary report (…). The memory of white Americans is short, Agnès Varda's Black Panthers can refresh it for them.” -Claire Clouzot, Cinema 70 n°143, February 1970 (machine translated) "Black is beautiful. Black is black, and History undulates from movement to movement. 1968. In France, since May, demands and hopes have been expressed violently. In the United States, the black community is active around the trial of a Black Panther leader. This party, this movement, wants to act and establish theories and practices: Mind and Body Theory. Pascal Thomas gets an interview filmed in Huey Newton's prison. I come from Los Angeles as soon as there is a demonstration, a meeting or a march. I say "French Television", I smile and I move freely among the tall black men who are training. I film with a 16 mm camera lent by activists from the University of Berkeley. The leaders make their speeches: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver… Women also express their desire to act, to make decisions and their pride in being black. As for the children, they dance to the tune of: "Free Huey! Free Huey!" I believe that this short film bears witness to a specific and short moment in the tormented history of black Americans." -Agnés Varda (mach. trans.) Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:23:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/6eabae77-ac36-4050-a5c6-3bff9779b80c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.