The subject matter could have been pulled from yesterday's headlines, but in fact the film is a time capsule from 1971, rescued from decades of obscurity by a major new restoration undertaken by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Schickele had originally conceived the film as a comedic docudrama set at what was then San Francisco State College but when that campus became convulsed by a series of racial justice protests during the filming process in 1968, he rewrote the script to incorporate the demonstrations as they unfolded, as well as their impact on the real-life Okpokam.
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