Bushman

In the turbulence of 1968, Gabriel travels from Nigeria to California to begin a teaching job at San Francisco State. Beginning as a fiction film based on lead actor Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam’s experiences, we follow Gabriel as he navigates academic West coast life and the racism and exoticism he finds threaded through his daily interactions. However, real-life events overtake the film when Okpokam is falsely accused of terrorism during the university strike of that year. Newly restored, this unique docudrama draws on cinema verite, experimental and new wave influences to leave a lasting impression of a moment in time at once distant and wholly familiar.