We are pleased that Seventh Cinema is back for a second season!

This year's curated film program is tethered to Martinican psychiatrist and anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon's often-misunderstood and overly read essay Concerning Violence from his book The Wretched of the Earth (1961). For this season, we have curated films that overlap with Fanon's ideas and sentiments in the spirit he intended—not as an endorsement of violence itself, but as a confrontation of the processes that drive colonised people to necessarily use violence.

This season includes:

• Embrace of the Serpent (2015) – A visually stunning feature filmed on 35mm in the Amazon, set against the violent backdrop of the colonial rubber trade.
• Contos do Esquecimento (Tales of Oblivion) (2023) – A meditative film essay that reflects on the physical and cultural remnants of colonial atrocities in our present landscapes.
• Born in Flames (1983) – A guerrilla-style mockumentary that explores racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in an alternate socialist democratic United States.
• The Battle of Algiers (1966) – One of cinema's great political masterpieces, which charts the Algerian national liberation movement from its beginnings in 1954 through to independence in 1962.

We welcome you to join us in viewing these and other important films and in reflecting on their profound relevance to the present. This season invites a critical examination of the ever-unfolding neo/colonial policrisis—both within our local context and further afield.
In engaging with Fanon's work, we are called to consider the responsibilities of Western intellectuals and nations in perpetuating or dismantling colonial systems. Most importantly, these films challenge us to ask:
What is our role in revolution?

— Kori Miles and Lucie Loy

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