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[quote]Isaac Julien, the celebrated black British director of such provocative films as Looking for Langston and Young Soul Rebels, integrates the facts of Fanon's brief but remarkably eventful life with his long and tortuous inner journey. Julien elegantly weaves together interviews with family members and friends, documentary footage, readings from Fanon's work and dramatizations of crucial moments in Fanon's life. Cultural critics Stuart Hall and Françoise Verges position Fanon's work in his own time and draw out its implications for our own.
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[quote]Isaac Julien has now set a political milestone, making the first film about this many-faceted activist. He included interviews of relatives, professors of politics and psychoanalysts, along with archive material of Fanon, and the various stages of his life, with important moments and insights.

Back in 1989 Julien pleased his critics and a large proportion of his audience with Looking for Langston, about the black, gay writer from Harlem. Again in 1996, Julien enriched the succession of biographies of forgotten celebrities with his talent for simply breathtaking portraits. In his recreated surreal films Julien creates an ambience that does not fail to draw his audience into the subject matter.

Julien skilfully arouses a profound eroticism of mainly masculine nature. This does not make Frantz Fanon a gay film, although the mentioning of the attractiveness of the black man to white women and homosexuals is not neglected. More important than homosexuality is the ambivalence between black and white, a central theme in Fanon's life, work and theory. The decision to have men dealing with the psychological themes amongst themselves, not hiding from intensive physicality, is a good one.

It is hard to decide what contributes more to the success of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask: the interesting choice of subject, or Julien's masterful staging of it. Historical facts, old theories with new currency and erotic inferences: in the right hands and highly appealing form of documentary.
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[quote]Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Mask.mpg, 492Mb
video: 352x240 00:47:27 29.97fps MPEG1 1.2Mbps
audio: 44KHz 00:47:27 Stereo 224Kbps
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WARNING! The video quality is good, but probably the original VHS had some damaged spots which results in GAPS here and there - the screen goes BLANK. All the gaps total to less than 2 minutes over the 50 minutes running time, and they won't disrupt your understanding of the movie, but for sure they're annoying as hell.

Thanks to DarknessAtNoon@DV for seeding this one!

THE LINK:
Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Mask.mpg

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