A book is a Loaded Gun

We propose looking at two books: Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

Paper weapons that we will see translated into images. First in The Words of the Chairman, a jokey piece of agitprop where Harun Farocki ironically takes seriously the idea that Mao’s words could become missiles in the hands of the revolutionary German youth.

And also in the more recent Concerning Violence, where Göran Olsson scrutinises the machinery of colonialism through a collage that mixes the text of Fanon with images of African anti-colonial struggles shot by Swedish film makers in the 60s and 70s.