by
André Rouillé
Populations in Danger: Itsembatsemba. Rwanda, one genocide later
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.
Synopsis
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.
What you will learn in this film…
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
Film chapters
00:00 The radio called for violence
04:00 Finding peace?
07:26 Two years on
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