The empire looks back

In "The Wretched of the Earth" Frantz Fanon's technique is to train the eye on the colonizer in the process of looking at the colonized in order to expose the psychosexual fears and fantasies on which that gaze is premised and their alienating effects on colonizer and colonized. Michael Haneke's film "Caché"/"Hidden" (2005) operates, loosely, in a way similar to Fanon in that it reverses the gaze of the western colonizer and exposes the hidden fears and fantasies still at play today in a post-colonial re-run of the colonial encounter.