Film
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask & The Stuart Hall Project
- Director
- John Akomfrah, Isaac Julien
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 173 mins
Writer and historian Edson Burton introduces a double bill of empowering and inspirational voices for Black History Month. Artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien‘s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask is a recently remastered 1997 docudrama about the life of French psychoanalytic theorist and civil rights activist Frantz Fanon.
John Akomfrah‘s The Stuart Hall Project is a personal portrait of the cultural studies pioneer and New Left Review founder, whom he describes as “kind of a rock star for us. For many of my generation in the 70s… he was one of the few people of colour we saw on television who wasn’t crooning, dancing or running. His very iconic presence on this most public of platforms suggested all manner of ‘impossible possibilities’.”
It’s culled from a vast collection of archive footage, and benefits from a jazz soundtrack by Miles Davis – a passion shared by both men.
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