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The film tells three stories which are separate and at times connected. In the first one, the young filmmaker Balthazar is looking for money in Kigali to produce his debut film, Le cycle du cafard, but the government refuses to finance a film based on the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda.
Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza, 2011, Rwanda Set in Kigali, Rwanda's capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named ...
- 4 min
- 5.9K
- Global Lens Collection
Jan 18, 2012 · In “Grey Matter” Kivu Ruhorahoza gathers recollections of the months of massacres in Rwanda and the effects of the bloodshed on those who survived.
- Kivu Ruhorahoza
Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza, Rwanda, 2011. Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach.
- 4 min
- 1575
- The Global Film Initiative
One question haunts Kivu Ruhorahoza's Grey Matter: Can film as a medium communicate the unthinkable and unknowable consequences of mass tragedy? When you're dealing with an event as devastating and massive as the Rwandan Genocide of 1994, where over 800,000 people were killed in a matter of months, any type of definitive answer undoubtedly ...
- Kivu Ruhorahoza
- Moon Road Films, Scarab Studio
Movie: Grey Matter. The first time I watched Grey Matter, a feature-length film directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza during the 2011 Rwanda Film Festival, I must confess that at the beginning I failed to understand the story line until I realized that it consists of three stories.
Apr 19, 2011 · Kivu Ruhorahoza: Grey Matter. There are films about Rwandan genocide, and then there's this: not only a penetrating and artistic cross-section of a country's shattered psyche, but the first feature film from a Rwandan filmmaker... ever.
