Concerning Violence

A feat of archival research and an essential piece of cinema, the second of its kind by Swedish director Göran Olsson (after his singular Black Power Mixtape), Concerning Violence narrates the events of nine African nationalist and independence movements in the 1960s and 1970s shot by Swedish filmmakers, which challenged colonial and white minority rule. The footage is overlaid by text from Frantz Fanon’s landmark book, The Wretched of the Earth, the title of the film taking on the title of t...