Concerning Fanon

Bhakti Shringarpure

Bhakti Shringarpure, Warscapes

Concerning Violence, a documentary by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, opened to a packed theatre at the Sydney Film Festival last week, and despite being a powerful film, it did not close to the enthusiastic cheers and applause that other films had. Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, scholar of postcolonial studies and a legend in her own right, offers a monotone introduction to the film. Spivak's short lecture on Martinican psychiatrist and anticolonial thinker Frantz Fanon appropriately ushers viewers into the universe of this documentary, which is decidedly academic, theoretical, pedagogical and, to some degree, experimental.

Trailer for 'Concerning Violence'

'Black Power Mixtape' Director Will Tackle Struggle For Liberation via Frantz Fanon In Next Film

Tambay A. Obenson, Indiewire

After attempting to contextualize the Black Power Movement, in a format more accessible to a new generation - what we call a "mixtape" hence the title, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 - Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson will continue on that same path, in a similar style, with his next film, revealed over the weekend.

Olsson will incorporate the words from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in a new documentary project that will also use newly-discovered archive footage (as was the case with his last film), to explore what he refers to as "the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the unrest and the reaction against it."