Join us for a screening of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), followed by a conversation between the film’s director, Sir Isaac Julien, and academic and writer Françoise Vergès, who contributed to the film’s production, research and translation.
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask is a poetic meditation on the life, work and enduring influence of the anti-colonial thinker and philosopher Frantz Fanon, author of Black Skin, White Masks. Through interviews, archival footage and reconstructed scenes, the film traces Fanon’s journey from his early years in Martinique to his work as a psychiatrist and revolutionary in Algeria, exploring the continued relevance of his ideas to contemporary struggles against colonialism, racism and systemic violence.
“The wound is the cruelty of the colonial and racial world. Its determination to destroy everything and to create ugliness everywhere is a way of life. To be in joy is to gather and laugh together. I love to cook for many people. I ask myself each time, how can we remove the poison poured into our bodies and minds? What are our antidotes, how to let those circulate? Against isolation, sitting with friends. Against emptiness, reading poetry. Against melancholy, playing with children. For every poison, an antidote.”
— Françoise Vergès, Another Sun (Divided Publishing, 2026)
