Centre For Indian Aesthetics and Postcolonial Studies

Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense (2014) directed by Göran Hugo Olsson. ( @goranhugoolsson )

Based on Frantz Fanon’s essay ‘Concerning Violence’ from The Wretched of the Earth (1961), this is an archive-driven film that shook me.

Filmed with newly discovered Swedish TV archives of Africa’s liberation struggles in the 60s-70s (Angola, Mozambique, Burkina Faso with figures like Thomas Sankara, Amílcar Cabral ). It starts with a preface by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and narrated in English by Lauryn Hill.

Fanon’s argument that Colonialism itself is violence in its natural state, and decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. Olsson (@goranhugoolsson )makes you see it. The white colonists playing golf while resources are looted, alongside the brutal reality of anti-colonial resistance.

A must-watch. Have you watched it? I can’t believe I didn’t know of this until now.

📌 Note: Reel is made from clips of the original film. All credits and source to the Concerning Violence film team.

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