A screening that leaves room for the unexpected: the programming team saves this slot to present a film chosen at shorter notice, in response to current events, to seize an opportunity, or simply on a whim.
Winner of the Best First Feature award, 1971 Chicago International Film Festival
David Schickele brought his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam on board to play Gabriel, a young Nigerian intellectual who fled the war to seek refuge in San Francisco. Using a docu-fiction style reminiscent of Cassavetes' Shadows, the film places its protagonist in the midst of the counterculture of the time, while he also experiences racism, until fiction is overtaken by reality...
David Schickele
Bay Area filmmaker David Schickele is best known for Bushman (1971), a feature-length film about an African in America struggling to integrate tribal, personal, and racial frictions. The film won numerous festival awards, including Best First Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival, and was collected by the Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley, and The Museum of Modern Art in NY for their archives. His previous documentary Give Me A Riddle (1965), filmed verité style in Nigeria for the Peace Corps, is the first major film about the Peace Corps experience. His film Tuscarora (1992) is an hour-long independent documentary about a ceramic artist whose tiny Nevada desert town is threatened by an open-pit gold mine. Schickele wrote, directed and edited more than 30 films for corporate clients ranging from documentaries to tightly scripted, sound-stage productions.
Bio : Kino Lorber
