Organised by British Film Institute (BFI)
Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s celebrated experimental documentary about the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and revolutionary.
Frantz Fanon was an Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose inspiring, groundbreaking writing explored the psychopathology of colonisation. Subverting traditional documentary codes, artist Isaac Julien here unpacks Fanon’s life and ideas by interweaving Algerian locations, archive footage and interviews with family and critical thinkers – including the seminal Stuart Hall. Fanon wrote that racism was the absolute depersonalisation of the individual – something that this film examines through the complexity and barriers of language, and through pointed, unusual framing. A rich, poetic and powerful work, in a new digital restoration.