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Mimmo Borrelli and Giuseppe D’Ambrosio in a still from Vincenzo Marra’s ‘Equilibrium’

Mimmo Borrelli and Giuseppe D’Ambrosio in a still from Vincenzo Marra’s ‘Equilibrium’

“The courage to hang in there”: Vincenzo Marra Talks About His Quietly Brave ‘Equilibrium’

E. Nina Rothe June 3, 2018

I have noticed that we’ve lost the ability to stand up for ourselves. But, perhaps more tragically, we’ve forgotten how to stand up for the weaker and more vulnerable in our society. I believe that’s part of the reason why we crave violent entertainment where big burly men stand up to other big burly men and win after a blaze of car chases, noisy fights and assorted fireworks. They do what we can’t manage anymore.

To paraphrase the great Nelson Mandela, courage is not the lack of fear, rather being able to work through it and triumph above it. We all feel afraid of something, somewhere, just as we all possess courage. But the ultimate question is which will win in this eternal struggle within ourselves?

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In Film, Interviews Tags Vincenzo Marra, Equilibrium, Mimmo Borrelli, Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, Venice Days, BFI London Film Festival, Nelson Mandela, Napoli
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975' : The Revolution Will Be Documented

E. Nina Rothe February 10, 2018

I think the reason I love cinema so much is that, as a medium, it possesses the most potential for uniting the world. While we watch a DVD of a French film at home, sit in a theater being washed over by the images of an Italian B & W classic, or surreptitiously check out the recent download of a Bollywood movie on our iPad, we are undeniably transported to other lands, other eras and, most importantly, other ways of looking at things. But while the promise is there every time we choose a title, few films achieve the grand objective of forever changing our mind and enriching our world permanently.

Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary 'The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975' is one of those once-in-a-lifetime films which seamlessly reaches the full cinematic goal of changing its viewers’ world for good.

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In Film, Interviews Tags Goran Hugo Olsson, Sweden, The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975, film, documentary, The Black Power movement, Civil Rights struggle, The Black Panthers, Mutabaruka, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Maya Angelou, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, USA, African-American, Danny Glover, Joslyn Barnes, Arab Spring
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