Terence Dixon // Melvin Van Peebles
1970 // 1967
26m // 87m

From Josephine Baker to Miles Davis, Black Americans sought refuge in Paris from segregation. Shunned by Hollywood, Melvin Van Peebles similarly used France’s patronage to make his debut. _The Story of a Three Day Pass_ tells a Fanonian story of a Black G.I.whose search for liberation leads him into the arms of Miriam, a white shop clerk. In the preceding short, writer and activist James Baldwin is shown in his Paris days, fighting against the white gaze the British film crew casts upon him.

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