Frantz Fanon: Sa Vie, Son Combat, Son Travail
(Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work)

Saturday, March 28, 2009, 2 p.m.
All showings are in the Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Memorial Library Auditorium


Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique, who became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. During the Second World War, he volunteered as a soldier to help France against the Nazis. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism, and the philosophy of black consciousness known as négritude. His 1952 book, Black Skin, White Masks, offers a penetrating analysis of racism and oppression in colonized countries and of the ways in which it is internalized by its victims. Expelled from Algeria in 1956, Fanon moved to Tunis, where he wrote for El Moudjahid, the rebel newspaper, founded Africa's first psychiatric clinic, and wrote several influential books on decolonization. This film traces the short and intense life of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century.

Director and Writer: Cheikh Djemaï
Running time: 140 minutes
Production: Martinique, France, Algeria, Tunisia, 2004
Language: French with English subtitles
Rating: Not rated