No.3646
Our next Film Club features the newest film so far; it's come off the festival circuit for a wider release only a few months ago. Concerning Violence is also the first documentary to be featured for Film Club.
> Combining Swedish archival footage and audiovisual extracts from Frantz Fanon’s combustible 1962 tome, this is a sobering nine-part account of Africa’s struggle to emerge from the yoke of colonial oppression. Uncompromising, demanding and potently illuminating. ~~ David Parkinson, Empire
> It's a confrontational, direct and challenging piece of film-making; an illustrated lecture that muses on the legacy of European colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere and poses questions about cycles of power abuse and neo-colonialism. ~~ Wendy Idle, The Times
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263690/reference
http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/10/preface-to-concerning-violence/
Your suggestions and opinions for upcoming Film Club selections are always welcome. Either comment here or in the proper thread: >>3564
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No.3689
Well this looks very bloody interesting indeed. I've read Fanon and sometimes have need of referring to this very book.
Thanks for making me aware of this film.
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No.3715
Anyone know where to watch this?
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No.3726
>>3646leftpol pls go, we don't care about your anti-west bullshit, most of the problems in today's africa stem from the bullshit that were coldwar politics and a level of corruption most people here can only imagine
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No.3730
>>3726You're not obligated to agree with the content you watch. People here were talking about Nazi films last week and Russian propaganda before that.
I do think it's a mistake (and frankly smallminded) to only watch material that reinforces one's existing biases.
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No.3736
>>3715somebody was going to upload it but they've apparently disappeared
i did find it posted on this video site. watermarked but better than nothing:
https://vid.me/LFRjalthough i haven't watched this yet, colonialism is a hot topic these days. i agree the topic is typically used to bludgeon whitey, but i still want to see this essay/documentary speak for itself before making further judgments.
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No.5407
So, Concerning Violence…
It's worth seeing for the vintage 16mm footage of various revolutionary happenings and the cultural friction between whites and blacks in Africa. This director seems to have a talent for unearthing archival gems. I'm mostly ignorant of the history of many of these events, so the subject matter made for an intriguing experience.
Clearly the film is dominated by an anti-European viewpoint – a myopic missed opportunity to go beyond a rather simplistic analysis. And the Fanon quotes became obnoxious after a while. I'm not sold on him yet but maybe I need to read his writing on its own?
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/concerning-violence-2014
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No.5410
Hey mods can you please ban liberal shitposting?
OP go post your guilt film at reddit, they love this kind of shit.
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No.5414
>>5410
can you please stop fucking posting in every thread telling people to "go to reddit." this is the film board, not the nazi circlejerk board or the commie circlejerk board. we are here to discuss films and the art of film making
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No.5417
>>5414
Pick a film that doesn't shit on Europeans over and over again for shit that a small portion of their ancestors did.
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No.5419
>>5410
>>5417
>please pick a film that doesn't trigger me or challenge my preconceived beliefs.
>also please ban anyone that opposes my beliefs.
>a films qualities mean nothing to me when coupled with the politically uncomfortable.
No, you're not the biggest threat to this boards quality at the moment. It's those "liberal shitposters" who actually talk about film.
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No.5420
>>5419
you just listed the beliefs of this films entire liberal demographic.
On a relevant note, I just realized that this was produced with help from sweden lol. Do you swedes just sit around all day dreaming and talking about black dicks?
Sad.
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No.5432
Am I guilty of liberal shitposting for reviewing this? If that was directed at me, you should probably read my post more carefully.
The film is more CSPAN than MSNBC. It's a collection of raw footage that may evoke the director's desired response, but only if you can't think for yourself or comprehend what is beyond the frame.
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No.5436
>>5420
So you admit that you're effectively the same as all the strawman SJW tumblrinas with your "this triggers muh feelings please delete".
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No.5445
Can someone share a link to the previous film club films? As a new lurker of this board, it would be useful to have all the previous ones kept in a pastebin or something for each new filmclub thread, I think.
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No.5447
>>5445
Links to the threads? You can find them easily by going to the catalog view and entering Film Club in the search box.
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No.5512
Anyone interested in me streaming this? Not sure if I should wait for the next film since its Friday and all.
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No.5513
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No.5515
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No.5520
>>3730
Bull. Fucking. Shit. There was no nazi films on here you fucking commie rat.
Its so cute you said Russian films instead of communism, trying to damage control much?
Your fucking pathetic.
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No.5521
>>5515
>>5515
samefag as OP and everyone else shilling in this thread.
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No.5522
>>5520
You're talking to someone from six months ago
The Nazi thread is right here >>3567
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No.8155
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No.8161
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No.8162
Other films about colonialism and postcolonialism
Afrique 50
Africa Addio
Noirs et Blancs en Couleur
Dal Polo all'Equatore
Kommando 52
The Naked Prey
Mugabe and the White African
Rhodes of Africa
Zulu
ADD ON...
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No.8163
>>8155
Does that song have a name? I found the full lyrics near the bottom of this page. https://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1230/548711
South Africans probably had Lockean homesteading rights to their land. But from brief reading, it sounds like Rhodesia was already inhabited when Rhodes & co. arrived. True?
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No.12637
So Frantz Fanon is respected ... why? Is it because feelgood intentions are more important than actual results? His ideas weren't good for much beyond kicking out colonialists. Fanon combined the mind cancer of intense self-pity with the economic cancer of Marxism. I'm unaware of many (or any) successful countries built upon those two principles. You could say Frantz Fanon is the Founding Father of shithole countries.
Botswana is one of the few African countries that's become successful in the past 50 years. Its policies of economic freedom are a far cry from Fanon's pity party Marxism.
Anyway Concerning Violence is remarkable because you get to hear the exact words that led to Africa's post-colonial failure. The director seems weirdly oblivious.
One thing that stuck out to me was the missionary scene. The missionaries were criticised for building a church instead of a hospital. I think the missionaries said something about trying to get the local population to be monogamous instead of having many wives (and dozens of kids). Outrageous zealotry from those Bible thumpers! And yet later we see hordes of pitiful souls during a guilt porn montage. But, why are there so many pitiful souls who cannot feed themselves? Could it be the unrestrained breeding the missionaries warned against?
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No.13263
>>8163
Necroposting but this might help future posters. the song i
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No.13264
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>13263
>Fuck, cat got on keyboard
Necroposting but this might help future posters. The song is "The UDI Song" by John Edmond. It seems to be a slowed down cover or something though.
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No.13265
>>13264
Yep, that's it.
UDI = Universal Declaration of Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia's_Unilateral_Declaration_of_Independence
I make note of films about Rhodesia because it's essentially a lost country. That makes it a mysterious place. Recently I noticed Duel in the Jungle starring Dana Andrews.
>An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
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