![]() Kléber Gamess, Fanon’s childhood friend, talking about how many young people left Martinique during the Second World War because it was under Vichy government. Adult Fanon listening to broadcast about Black Americans fighting for their civil rights. Vergès’s VO says this did not bring about equality. More footage on commemorations of abolition of slavery. Raphaël Confiant, novelist, explains that it was decapitated by Nationalists. Vergès’s VO describes the history of the "old colony" which became a French possession before the Revolution. Beginning of item on Martinique with map showing its location. Newsreel of commemoration (April 1948) of life of Victor Schoelcher, abolitionist. Olivier Fanon (Fanon’s son) talking about his grandmother he says Fanon had difficulty believing he was his son as he was very light skinned when he was young. Françoise Vergès, writer, relating story of Fanon’s mother telling him not to be "like a nigger" in preferring a Creole song to a French song. Reconstructed scenes of the young Fanon listening to music on the radio, intercut with footage of social dancing mother turns off radio. VO over photograph of agricultural workers: racism prevents recognition of humanity. ![]() "The struggle between the master and the slave is a struggle for power." Stuart Hall, writer and cultural critic, on Fanon’s perception of the struggle between coloniser and colonised, the interdependence of master and slave. ![]() Actuality footage of tanks in street, De Gaulle in triumphant procession in Algiers, some undercut reconstructed footage of Algerians in fear, banana workers. VO continues (describing early life) over footage of Martinique, Fanon as doctor in psychiatric hospital. Frantz Fanon’s words – "I do not come with timeless truths… I think it would be good if certain things were said…" – as VO over montage of reconstructed footage of man in hospital, man in chains, family. A dramatised account of episodes in the life of Martinique-born French writer and political theorist, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) intercut with interviews with relatives and friends.įRANTZ FANON chalked on shooting slate. ![]()
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