Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Philippe Van Leeuw and Kivu Ruhorahoza’s cinema proposes an esthetic and ethical gaze that distances itself from the historic realism that defines the majority of the films on the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. By conferring an unprecedented eloquence to different types of silence and by maintaining viewers in a concerted state of ignorance, both filmmakers question societies’ will to know within the legacy of genocide and their willingness to culturally acknowledge the traumatic resonance of its aftermath.
Recommended Citation
Dauge-Roth, Alexandre and Ikizler, Ayse Irem
(2015)
"Le cinéma face à l’oblitération génocidaire. Silences éloquents et hors-champ intérieur chez Philippe Van Leeuw et Kivu Ruhorahoza,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 85:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol85/iss1/10
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