Narrated by Lauryn HiII, Concerning Violence uses archivaI footage to expIore the most daring moments in the struggle for Iiberation in the Third WorId. lt is aIso an exploration of decolonization as expressed in Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon's Iandmark book, written over 50 years ago, is stiIl a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as weIl as the violence and reactions against it.
Director Goran Hugo Olsson (The BIack Power Mixtape) gathers footage of anti-imperiaIist liberation movements from the 1970s onward, drawn from the Swedish Television archives, and crafts a powerfuI document that brings us face-to-face with the peopIe for whom Fanon's writings were not just rhetoric, but a reality. |