The film credited with inventing blaxploitation immediately announces its radical intentions: “Dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters who had enough of the Man.” After defending a young black man from police brutality, the titular protagonist (played by the director) evades white cops by hiding out with a string of prostitutes, bikers, and black religious leaders. Using jump cuts, superimpositions, and other experimental techniques, Van Peebles gleefully embraces anarchy in theme and style, seemingly working toward a new kind of cinema. Black Panther Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton called the film “the first truly revolutionary Black film made.”