Ojore Nuru Lutalo – Eyes Of A Survivor (wip)
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About The Film
Directed by Daryl Brown, a Black filmmaker from the South Side of Chicago. https://www.darylbrownfilm.com
The film is a expermental collage of interviews with Ojore Lutalo & Bonnie Kerness.
About Ojore Lutalo
Ojore is a New Afrikan anarchist and ex BLA soldier, upon befriending Kuwasi Balagoon and being exposed to critiques of Marxist-Leninism, he became a New Afrikan Anarchist in 1975. He would spend time creating collages while in prison, but in 1986, unprovoked, the prison moved him into the MCU, the sensory depriving Maximum Control Unit, where prisoners move in shackles and guards carry clubs they call “nigger beaters”. In an interview, he writes;
“I just believe in the consensus process, I believe in the autonomous process. I believe that people are intelligent enough to govern their own lives and make their own decisions without somebody collecting untold billions of dollars of taxes and telling you what should and shouldn’t be. Most organizations of the Left and the Right they want to repress, they have power ambitions, they power hungry, money hungry. And they’ll do anything to retain that particular power. They don’t consult with the lower class people, they make decisions for them and I feel that’s wrong. So that’s why I became an anarchist.”
While in prison he produced collage artwork to illustrate what was happening to him.
Interviews with Ojore
(pending)
Zines By Ojore
(pending)
About Bonnie Kerness
Bonnie Kerness is a community organizer and an advocate working on human rights issues since the 1960s. She came out of the southern Civil Rights Movement after working with the
NAACP and the Highlander Institute. Since the 1970s she has been working on behalf of prisoners and their families.
Interviews with Bonnie