In 'Concerning Violence,' 'Black Power Mixtape' Director Tackles Struggle for Liberation via Frantz Fanon

From Shadow and Act Wed Nov 26 2014, 15:27:05

After attempting to contextualize the Black Power Movement, in a format more accessible to a new generation - what we call a "mixtape" hence the title, "The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975" - Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson continues on that same path, in a similar style, with his next film, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Titled "Concerning Violence," and produced by Annika Rogell and Tobias Janson for Story AB, the project incorporates the words from Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth," using newly-discovered archive...

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