Lauryn Hill, performing in New York’s Central Park

Singer Lauryn Hill, is the narrator of a new documentary called CONCERNING VIOLENCE, “a bold, fresh, and compelling visual narrative about the African liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s,”  that is set to premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival taking place Janaury 16 to 24, 2014.  Concerning Violence is directed by Göran Hugo Olsson, whose earlier film The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 played in the World Cinema Documentary Competition in the 2011 festival.

Concerning Violence

Concerning Violence combines newly discovered archival material depicting some of the most daring moments in the confrontation with colonial power, accompanied by singer Lauryn Hill’s searing narrative and drawn from psychologist/philosopher Frantz Fanon’s seminal anticolonial text, The Wretched of the Earth.

In this potent, arresting, and surprisingly emotional film, Olsson artfully elucidates Fanon’s psychiatric and psychological analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization on the individual and the nation. Concerning Violence makes accessible Fanon’s theory that the violence of colonialism must be met with greater violence to be defeated, as well as his vision and plea to reject the lust for colonial power and instead embrace a more creative and humane society. As a result, Olsson’s powerful documentary makes an accurate, timely, and vital contribution toward building a better world for the future.  [Sundance Film Festival]

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