Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
The film Grey Matter [Matière grise] (2011) directed by a Rwandan filmmaker Kivu Ruhorahoza, is an attempt to offer psychoanalytic approaches to understanding a 1994 Rwandan genocide within the psychic and the social. This director is interested in representing the impossible, instead, he offers a poetic representation of trauma. It may be just like a dream in his psychic, wondering whether this event really happened and how to make sense of as time settles ? This noiseless film is the first feature length narrative film directed by a Rwandan who gives the world the visual interpretation of the impact of the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in his country. Grey Matter deals with three stories, which are separated and yet quite connected by trauma.
Recommended Citation
Ekotto, Frieda
(2015)
"Une poétique de la mémoire : lire Matière grise, le film du réalisateur rwandais Kivu Ruhorahoza (2011),"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 85:
No.
1, Article 7.
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https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol85/iss1/7
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