film-frantz-fanon-memoire-dasile-2026-10-09

Saint-Alban · Collections Institut Jean Vigo Composed from the exceptional film archive of St Alban hospital, this montage of archives is a musical and dreamlike tribute to the extraordinary asylum experience of this Lozère hospital, where, under the gaze of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles, "institutional psychiatry" was born. Friday 9 October · 19h Frantz Fanon, memory of the asylum BACHIR RIDOUH, ABDENOUR ZAHZAH | France, 2002, 54 min While the name Frantz Fanon evokes less the psychiatrist than the revolutionary, it was through his practice with patients that he measured the inequalities and injustices generated by colonialism. Revolutionary methods for the time, involving indigenous patients, previously discredited, and care staff. His ideals led him very quickly to embrace the cause of the liberation struggle, by sheltering and treating Algerian fighters. Forced to resign, he continued the struggle by joining the FLN in Tunis. (film-documentaire.fr) An evocation of Frantz Fanon's life as close to reality as possible, between archive images and current testimonies. With the support of the Cinémathèque du Documentaire – Images de la Culture.