{"id":10888,"date":"2015-02-24T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:05:37","slug":"the-ravages-of-colonialism-concerning-violence-grande-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10888","title":{"rendered":"The Ravages of Colonialism: Concerning Violence + Grande Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ConcerningViolence_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10899\" alt=\"ConcerningViolence_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ConcerningViolence_poster.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Just posted is a review of G\u00f6ran Olsson&#8217;s latest documentary, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10892\">Concerning Violence<\/a><\/strong> (2014), distributed theatrically by KINO, and screening at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/boxoffice.hotdocs.ca\/WebSales\/pages\/info.aspx?evtinfo=34276~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&amp;epguid=6395d239-7dd9-47d4-a22f-81a783873e12&amp;\" target=\"window\">Bloor Hot Docs Cinema<\/a>\u00a0Friday February 27 \u2013 Thursday March 5.<\/p>\n<p>Olsson&#8217;s film sets the words of Frantz Fanon&#8217;s <strong>The Wretched of the Earth<\/strong> with matching rare footage from former African colonies rising up against their European aggressors, and it&#8217;s a fascinating time capsule \/ essay film from the director of <strong>The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A less visceral but no less affecting companion doc is Lotte Stoops&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2871\">Grande Hotel<\/a><\/strong> (2010), which similar played at Hot Docs (<em>and needs to be on DVD)<\/em>, and tells its tale of colonial ills through the lives of squatters that overtook the once elegant Grande Hotel in Mozambique, after the former colony gained independence from Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> Twilight Time&#8217;s great Blu-ray edition of <strong>When the Wind Blows<\/strong> (1986), Jimmy Murakami&#8217;s vivid adaptation of Raymond Briggs&#8217; anti-nuclear tale.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of G\u00f6ran Olsson&#8217;s Concerning Violence (2014), which begins its run at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Friday February 27th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[3438,2562,2563,3433,3439,460],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ConcerningViolence_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2PC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10900,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions\/10900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}