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Bushman

1971 · 73 min

A quiet, poetic blend of documentary and fiction that drifts through a turbulent era, asking for patience and reflection rather than momentum.

Directed by
David Schickele
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Starring
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, Elaine Featherstone, Mike Slye
Overview
1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.

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Directed by
David Schickele
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Starring
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, Elaine Featherstone, Mike Slye
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • race
    • identity
    • isolation
    • politics
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness6
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary, drama
    Directed by
    David Schickele
    Written by
    David Schickele
    Starring
    Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, Elaine Featherstone, Mike Slye, Lothario Lotho, Jack Nance, Patrick Gleeson, Donna Michelson, Ann Scofield
    Cinematography
    David Myers
    Runtime
    73 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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