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Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later
France - 1997
fr 
English
13’
fr English
13’
Rwanda, April 1996. Precisely two years after the genocide, photo-reporter Alexis Cordesse visits the massacre sites. He photographs the commemorations, the civilians who heal the wounds, certain places left untouched since 1994. He records the traces of violence, of memory coming together.
His photographs resonate with the archives of Rwandan radio, which at the time of the genocide urged racial hatred and violence.
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Synopsis
The confrontation of overwhelming images with the sound archives which led to the tragedy • An unprecedented combination of photographs and testimonies • The present in image, the past in sounds • What remains after the violence • The first commemorations • The work of remembering • A rostrum-camera film • Sound creation in the service of photography
00:00 - The radio called for violence
04:00 - Finding peace?
07:26 - Two years on
Still frames
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Commemoration
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Graves
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Two years later
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Rwanda 1996
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Echoes of the genocide
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Testify
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Carry on
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later (1997)
Remember
Further exploration
Bibliography
• 2010 LUCIEN & RODOLPHE HERVÉ PRICE CATALOGUE - artist: Alexis Cordesse ; 2010 ; Vimagies editions ; French
• INFERNO - artist: James Nachtwey ; 2000 ; Phaidon
• DEATH, IMAGE, MEMORY: THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA AND ITS AFTERMATH IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND DOCUMENTARY FILM - author: Piotr Cieplak ; 2017 ; Palgrave Macmillan
• SMALL COUNTRY - author: Gaël Faye ; translator: Sarah Ardizzone ; 2019 ; Vintage