Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

One of Julien’s most fully achieved documentaries which ably interweaves
interviews, dramatic reconstruction and archive material, ‘Fanon’ is a study
of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Franz
Fanon, author of ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. In its exploration of Fanon’s
professional life as a psychiatric doctor in Algeria during its war of
independence with France, the insights offered into the psychological toll
of violent occupation and resistance is as relevant now as it was then. Made
in collaboration with producer Mark Nash, ‘Fanon’ is an illuminating
biographical portrait of a central figure in Third World nationalism which
manages to deliver both a sense of the man as well as the force of his
ideas.
This work is shown at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, as well as film in the festival.