ophiocephalic 🐍<p>Julius-Amédée Laou - a Fanonian cinema</p><p>Streaming now on the Criterion Channel is a collection of films by writer and director of stage and screen Julius-Amédée Laou, a body of work clearly influenced by the thought of Fanon. Like Fanon, Laou is Martiniquais-French; like Fanon, Laou is concerned with the reclamation of a Black consciousness out of the psychic ruination of colonialism.</p><p>The series consists of two shorts and two features, all of which were shot in the 1980s except for the final feature, a DV experiment from 2002. Each film is a search for the "Black skin" obscured behind the "white masks" of postcolonial existence. Revolutionary disillusionment, wedding party disasters, urban folk magic, visitations from ancestors and restless spirits; all set against the chronic racism of liberal Paris.</p><p>A search of the anglophone internet turns up little on this artist, beyond breadcrumbs and a couple of announcements for repertory screenings of the restored transfers of these films. This streaming collection is a good opportunity to explore one of the less-traveled alleyways of postcolonial cinema</p><p><a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/directed-by-julius-amedee-laou" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">criterionchannel.com/directed-</span><span class="invisible">by-julius-amedee-laou</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cinemastodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Laou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Laou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fanon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/postcolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>postcolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anticolonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>