Concerning Violence

Credits

Name: Concerning Violence

Country: Schweden, USA, Dänemark

Year of publication: 2014

Format: DCP

Language : OF m. dt. UT

Duration: 85 Minuten

Direction: Olsson, Göran Hugo

Screenplay: Olsson, Göran Hugo

Editing: Vucovic, Sophie; Olsson, Göran Hugo; Jonsäter, Dino; Aaglund, Michael

Sound: Nyström, Micke

Abstract

"CONCERNING VIOLENCE – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defence" is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s "The Wretched of the Earth". Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. In the middle of the Cold War, radical Swedish filmmakers set out to capture the anti-imperialist liberation movements in Africa first hand. With their 16mm footage, found in the Swedish Television archives, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson draws on his experience making The Black Power Mixtape (2011) to create a visual narrative from Africa - images of the pursuit of freedom, the Cold War and Sweden. Swedish filmmakers, with their sense of solidarity with anti-imperial and socialist struggles around the world at the time, created images and stories which still resonate today, and can change and deepen our impression of the globalized world we live in.

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