This documentary is both an archive-driven film covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, and an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neo-colonialism which is still happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it.
Göran Olsson, born in 1965 in Lund, Sweden, was educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading international filmmakers. He is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and the manufacturer of his own –invention – the A-Cam, a Super-16 film camera. His previous film The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 became a huge hit in festivals, theatres and TV broadcasts worldwide. Since 1999 Olsson has been a member of the editorial board of Ikon South Africa, a platform for creative documentary in South Africa by township filmmakers in cooperation with the South African national broadcaster SABC.
Kl:k (1992), Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much (1998), Am I Black Enough for You (2009), The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
