FRANTZ FANON: SA
VIE, SON COMBAT, SON TRAVAIL
FRANTZ FANON: HIS LIFE, HIS STRUGGLE, HIS WORK |
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DIRECTOR
Cheikh Djemaï
WRITER
Cheikh Djemaï
Running time: 52’
Production: Martinique / France / Algeria / Tunisia, 2004
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: DVD (color and B&W)
GENRE
Documentary
DISTRIBUTOR
ArtMattan Films
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"Cheikh Djemaï, French-Algerian
filmmaker, is one of the creators who claim the right to 'Remembrance'
on behalf of their contemporaries who were crushed by the wheels
of 'History'. His movies help us better reach the humanity that
is coiled inside each of us. This demanding director, a man
of fury and passion, is like a breath of hope and gives new
meaning to the word solidarity.”
G. Ginsberg, RFO |
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Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist,
originally from Martinique, who became a spokesman for the Algerian
revolution against French colonialism. During the Second World
War, he volunteered as a soldier to help France, “the
Mother Country,” against the Nazis. Embittered by his
experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to
radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy
of black consciousness known as négritude. His
1952 book, ''Black Skin, White Masks,'' offers a penetrating
analysis of racism and oppression in colonized countries and
of the ways in which it is internalised by its victims. While
secretly aiding the rebels of the Algerian anti-colonial war
as a doctor in Algeria, Fanon cared for victims and perpetrators
alike, producing case notes that shed invaluable light on the
psychic traumas of colonial war. Expelled from Algeria in 1956,
Fanon moved to Tunis where he wrote for El Moudjahid,
the rebel newspaper, founded Africa's first psychiatric clinic,
and wrote several influential books on decolonization. Frantz
Fanon, His Life, His Struggle, His Work reunites testimonies
of friends, family and colleagues that he met during the different
steps of his life and traces the short and intense life of one
of the great thinkers of the 20th century.
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