Talk & Screening on the Occasion of Frantz Fanon’s Hundredth Birthday
Schwarz-weisses Foto - zwei Männer im Gespräch
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Fratz Fanon was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956, Abdenour Zahzah, Algeria/France 2024
Abdenour Zahzah's film about Frantz Fanon's work in a psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algiers, from 1953 to 1956 deals with the theme of imperial violence and psychological trauma.
In 1953, Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist is appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algiers School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Bilgin Ayata, Enoka Ayemba, Milica Tomić, Abdenour Zahzah and others.
Finissage programme of Milica Tomić. On Love Afterwards
4 pm: Curator’s tour with Andreja Hribernik through Milica Tomić’s exhibition
5 pm: Talk and screening
IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, Faculty of Architecture | Graz University of Technology and Center for Southeastern European Studies | University of Graz