Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) turns back the clock to 1969 when a series of concerts by Black artists transfixed Harlem.
Under different circumstances, the director thinks the film would have turned out very differently.“What if the same amount of 40 hours of footage winds up in another filmmaker’s hands?
What combination could they come up with?” Questlove asks. “I don’t feel like mine is the definitive combination.”He worked on the documentary amidst dramatic upheaval in America.“We were dealing with the pandemic that we knew nothing about, happening in real time.
Number two, the George Floyd situation really turned up the degrees another notch. And then on top of that, we were in the [2020 presidential] election.
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