Bushman is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

Bushman (1971)DramaRating 47/100

When Paul Okpokam arrived in the U.S. in 1968, David Schickele decided to make a film about his Nigerian friend’s experience of coming to teach at San Francisco State College. Entering American society in a time of cultural upheaval and racial tension, Okpokam is seen by others through the prism of American racism and exoticism. Truth is stranger than fiction in BUSHMAN, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined, and poetic in its approach to real events.

Cast: Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, Elaine Featherstone, Mike Slye, Lothario Lotho, Jack Nance, Patrick Gleeson, Donna Michelson

Director: David Schickele