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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Country: UK, Language: English, 70 mins

Original Title

Frantz Fanon, peau noire masque blanc
  • Director: Isaac Julien
  • Writer: Isaac Julien; Mark Nash
  • Producer: Grischa Duncker; Karima Ladjimi

CGiii Comment

Frantz Fanon was an Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose inspiring, ground-breaking writing of the 1950s and 1960s explored the psychopathology of colonisation. Subverting traditional documentary codes, artist Isaac Julien and Mark Nash here depict and unpack Fanon's life and ideas through a rich, compact interweave of lustrous Algerian locations, archival footage and interviews with family members and critical thinkers, including the much-missed Stuart Hall. Fanon wrote that racism was the absolute depersonalisation of the individual and the film examines the extension of this dynamic through the complexity and problematics of language; whilst pointed, unusual framing emphasises the chains of gazing and desire that exists in the Oedipal relationship that Fanon identified between master and slave. A rich, poetic, powerful work, this newly restored version, which makes its world premiere at the LFF, looks both punchy and resplendent.

William Fowler


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Cast & Characters

Colin Salmon as Frantz Fanon;
Halima Daoud as Woman in the Marquis;
Noirin Ni Dubhgaill as Fanon's Companion;
Amir M. Korangy as Male Nurse;
Al Nedjari as Algerian Patient;
Rachida Rahal as Woman in the Marquis;
Ana Ramalho as French Woman;
John Wilson as French Policeman;
Joey Attawia; Lavanne Carlos;
Suzanne Carney;
Zeina Carrington;
Sally Craddock;
Ouifak Gouja;
Hadj Abdelhamid