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Hugo Olsson’s Concerning Violence is the first major film to grapple
with the work of the influential Martinican author and psychiatrist
Frantz Fanon since Isaac Julien’s biographical documentary Frantz Fa
non:
Black Skin, White Mask (1995). Whereas the earlier film took a
holistic, if esoteric, approach to appraising Fanon’s life and ideas
(including his upbringing in Martinique, education in France and work in
Algeria), the punchy Concerning Violence focuses on a specific sliver:
the opening chapter of Fanon’s classic text The Wretched of the Earth
(1961), in which the author posits the act of one nation colonising
another as a form of pure, subjugating violence. Fanon also discusses
violence – in the context of uprising and rebellion – as a means of
liberation and physical, spiritual catharsis for the oppressed.
