BUSHMAN (1971)

A film by David Schickele. 74m. USA. Released in UK cinemas by Other Parties on 12 July 2024.

A rare sort of film portrait — part document, part invention — following Gabriel, a young Nigerian living in San Francisco at the end of the 1960s, as the political and racial mood of America runs up against the civil war at home. Unseen for half a century. Other Parties gave it its UK theatrical release in 2024 and produced the UK Blu-ray edition.

The release played sixteen venues across the UK, including BFI Southbank and the Barbican, and screened in the BFI's African Odysseys strand in May 2024.

PRESS

“The entire package has been assembled with exceptional care.”
Alex Ramon, Sight & Sound, January 2025

“More than a counterculture era curio, this is an essential rediscovery.”
Alex Ramon, Sight & Sound

★★★★★ — Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian, July 2024

Feature by Tomisin Adepeju, BFI, April 2024

THE EDITION

The Other Parties Blu-ray carries Schickele's Give Me a Riddle (1966), Olivia Douglass's to, from (2024), a commentary by Eloise King and Tomisin Adepeju, and a booklet.

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