Kino Lorber has announced the DVD release of "Concerning Violence," the critically acclaimed, award-winning documentary by Göran Hugo Olsson ("The Black Power Mixtape") and narrated by Lauryn Hill, which examines the Pan-African struggle against colonialism by juxtaposing archival footage depicting key African liberation movements with text from Frantz Fanon's book, "The Wretched of the Earth." On May 5, 2015, "Concerning Violence" will become available on DVD, with bonus features including the full preface by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (11 minutes) and the trailer. In recent times there have been...
- 4/15/2015
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
Whew, where do I begin.... Concerning Violence, a new stock footage documentary from Goran Hugo Olsson (Black Power Mixtape) is an extremely sharp indictment on the colonization and its aftermath of the African continent. The matter of fact headiness of Olsson's style may turn off some viewers in its college thesis paper dryness, but one can not deny its power of arresting images and portent words.Borrowing the text of Frantz Fanon, a Martinique born controversial Afro-French thinker and revolutionary, from his book The Wretched of Earth and powerfully narrated by musician Lauryn Hill as the large white texts appear on screen, the film explains how Europe's five hundred years of exploitation and violent oppression led dehumanization of the whole continent.Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a Columbia professor,...
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- 12/3/2014
- Screen Anarchy
★★★★☆In answer to what he would do to follow 2011's multi-layered collage The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Göran Hugo Olsson has settled on the fight against Colonists in Africa by its indigenous people by again raiding the archives of Swedish Television for Concerning Violence (2014). This time he is using as the contextual device the words of Frantz Fanon spoken by Lauryn Hill, from Fanon’s book The Wretched Of The Earth. With a filmed introduction by postcolonial theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the film is split into nine chapters that delve into different perspectives on the African uprising that sprung up all over the continent from 1975 onwards.
- 11/26/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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