Presented by The Critical Student Collective, Health Studies Student Association, and the UTSC Critical Book Club, and with Professor Sicchia and TAIBU Community Health Centre
Film Synopsis: Concerning Violence is a visual narrative from Africa based on archive material from Swedish documentaries 1966-1987 covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule. This powerful footage is combined with text from Frantz Fanon’s landmark book The Wretched of the Earth – written in 1960 and still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the unrest and the reactions against it (adapted from http://story.se/film/concerning-violence/).
Note: Pizza & Refreshments at 6pm, film screening begins at 6:30pm followed by a group discussion led by Professor Neil Roberts, Department of Political Science
Related Resources:
- Short biography on Frantz Fanon on the Global Social Theory website
- Short visual introduction to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth by UNSW
- CBC Ideas episode on Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (there are two parts, this is a link to the first)
- An article in The Guardian about the film and the filmmaker, Goran Hugo Olsson
- A related article by Professor Neil Roberts, Department of Political Science