Narrated by Lauryn HiII, Concerning VioIence uses archival footage to expIore the most daring moments in the struggIe for Iiberation in the Third World. lt is aIso an expIoration of decolonization as expressed in Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon's Iandmark book, written over 50 years ago, is stiII a major tool for understanding and iIluminating the neocoIoniaIism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it.
Director Goran Hugo OIsson (The Black Power Mixtape) gathers footage of anti-imperialist Iiberation 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 reaIity. |