As Above, so Below

Recently rediscovered, Larry Clark’s second film recounts the story of Jida-Hadi, a child of the Chicago ghetto and Vietnam veteran, whose growing political awareness leads to join a revolutionary network that is preparing Black insurgency in the United States. From 1945 to the 1970s Vietnam war, this “political science fiction” is compounded with a devastating satire on the “good Black” of religious preachers. To the excerpts from the House Un-American Activities Committee’s report comes the reply of documentary images of American interventionism and the African wars of independence that have shaped Jida-Hadi’s awareness.