John Sinclair
As an emerging young poet in the mid-1960s, Sinclair took on the role of manager for the Detroit rock band MC5. The band's politically charged music and its Yippie core audience dovetailed with Sinclair's own radical development. In 1968, while still working with the band, he conspicuously served as a founding member of the White Panther Party, a militantly anti-racist socialist group and counterpart of the Black Panther Party. Arrested for distribution of marijuana in 1969, Sinclair was given ten years in prison. The sentence was criticized by many as unduly harsh, and it galvanized a noisy protest movement led by prominent figures of the 1960s counterculture. He was freed on March 9, 1972, by the Michigan Supreme Court when the possession of marijuana law was declared unconstitutional.
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
as SelfDocumentary looking at how Detroit became home to a musical revolution that captured the sound...
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MC5: A True Testimonial
as HimselfThis documentary, made over a period of eight years, tells the remarkable story of an extremely...
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Growing Up in America
as SelfFilmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and...
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Requiem for Detroit?
as Beat PoetA look at post-industrial Detroit and its burgeoning urban agricultural movement.
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MC5: Kick Out the Jams
as uncreditedKick Out the Jams features many never before seen films of the MC5 as created by Leni Sinclair &...
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Off the Road
as uncreditedOff The Road (directed by Laurence Petit-Jouvet): Peter Kowald on the road in the US, a road movie.
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