Sights on Sounds: Wattstax

WATTSTAX (1973)
Dir. Mel Stuart
Jun 7 & 11 | Ruth Sokolof Theater

Sights on Sounds returns with a powerful and vital music doc!

On August 20, 1972, to mark the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles—considered the city’s bloodiest unrest until the 1992 Rodney King riots—Stax Records presented a memorial concert for an audience of over 100,000 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The film combines footage from the music gathering, interviews with Watts residents, and snippets of effortless comedy by then-up-and-comer Richard Pryor for a joyous celebration of music that’s also an incisive reminder of one of L.A.’s greatest tragedies.

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