Piotr Cieplak
Biographic Data
| ID | 225870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Cieplak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Cieplak |
| SIGNATURE | CIEPLAK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9839-3225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Smartphone film, memory’s connective turn and the aesthetics of embodiment in Do You Remember That Year? (2020)
Do You Remember That Year? (DYRTY?) is a short film about anxiety, privilege, and the difficulty of reconciling the internal and external stimuli that bombard us daily. DYRTY? probes the need to narrativize experiences that are recorded but not necessarily remembered in what Hoskins (2011) calls the memorial ‘connective turn.’ This submission examines the potential aesthetic and narrative responses to the ‘connective turn,’ defined asan ‘ontologi…
Private Archives, Public Deaths in Rwanda and Argentina
In 2016, I shot a documentary in Rwanda: The Faces We Lost (2017). It is a film about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate their loved ones who died during t
History, trauma and remembering in Kivu Ruhorahoza'sGrey Matter(2011)
In 1994, the genocide in Rwanda claimed at least 800,000 lives in just 100 days. More than 20 years on, the memory and trauma of the atrocities still permeate the Rwandan society. This article explores how some of these different manifestations of trauma (individual and collective, actual and inherited, real and imagined, that of survivors and perpetrators), and especially their relationship to the genocide as a historical event, shape the intern…
Film Review
This is a review of Göran Olsson’s Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes From the Anti-imperialistic Self-Defense (2014) - an unusual documentary, which, formally and thematically, probes the complex relationship between image, voice and history
Death, Image, Memory
This book explores how photography and documentary film have participated in the representation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. This in-depth analysis of professional and amateur pho
Rwanda
View correction statement:Rwanda: Twenty Years after the Genocide—Representation and Justice
Alternative African cinemas
There are various prescriptive and limiting discourses about what African Cinema is or should be. Because of the vastness of the continent and the heterogeneity of the people inhabiting it (as well as those interested in its culture and history), most of these theories and assertions provide little more than general statements and often omit the importance of national and regional particularity. This article examines the emerging film industry in…
Image and Memory
Eric Kabera is a Rwandan documentary and fiction filmmaker and producer. He collaborated on one of the first fictionalised films about the genocide, 100 Days (dir. Nick Hughes), and has participated in a variety of projects related to the process of memorialisation and commemoration of the events of 1994 and their aftermath. Kabera is also the founder of the Rwanda Cinema Centre and the Rwanda Film Festival, which aim to bring the moving image to…
Death, Image, Memory
This book explores how photography and documentary film have participated in the representation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. This in-depth analysis of professional and amateur pho
Alternative African cinemas
There are various prescriptive and limiting discourses about what African Cinema is or should be. Because of the vastness of the continent and the heterogeneity of the people inhabiting it (as well as those interested in its culture and history), most of these theories and assertions provide little more than general statements and often omit the importance of national and regional particularity. This article examines the emerging film industry in…
History, trauma and remembering in Kivu Ruhorahoza'sGrey Matter(2011)
In 1994, the genocide in Rwanda claimed at least 800,000 lives in just 100 days. More than 20 years on, the memory and trauma of the atrocities still permeate the Rwandan society. This article explores how some of these different manifestations of trauma (individual and collective, actual and inherited, real and imagined, that of survivors and perpetrators), and especially their relationship to the genocide as a historical event, shape the intern…
Image and Memory
Eric Kabera is a Rwandan documentary and fiction filmmaker and producer. He collaborated on one of the first fictionalised films about the genocide, 100 Days (dir. Nick Hughes), and has participated in a variety of projects related to the process of memorialisation and commemoration of the events of 1994 and their aftermath. Kabera is also the founder of the Rwanda Cinema Centre and the Rwanda Film Festival, which aim to bring the moving image to…
Image and Memory
Eric Kabera is a Rwandan documentary and fiction filmmaker and producer. He collaborated on one of the first fictionalised films about the genocide, 100 Days (dir. Nick Hughes), and has participated in a variety of projects related to the process of memorialisation and commemoration of the events of 1994 and their aftermath. Kabera is also the founder of the Rwanda Cinema Centre and the Rwanda Film Festival, which aim to bring the moving image to…
Alternative African cinemas
There are various prescriptive and limiting discourses about what African Cinema is or should be. Because of the vastness of the continent and the heterogeneity of the people inhabiting it (as well as those interested in its culture and history), most of these theories and assertions provide little more than general statements and often omit the importance of national and regional particularity. This article examines the emerging film industry in…
Rwanda
View correction statement:Rwanda: Twenty Years after the Genocide—Representation and Justice
Film Review
This is a review of Göran Olsson’s Concerning Violence - Nine Scenes From the Anti-imperialistic Self-Defense (2014) - an unusual documentary, which, formally and thematically, probes the complex relationship between image, voice and history
Death, Image, Memory
This book explores how photography and documentary film have participated in the representation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. This in-depth analysis of professional and amateur pho
History, trauma and remembering in Kivu Ruhorahoza'sGrey Matter(2011)
In 1994, the genocide in Rwanda claimed at least 800,000 lives in just 100 days. More than 20 years on, the memory and trauma of the atrocities still permeate the Rwandan society. This article explores how some of these different manifestations of trauma (individual and collective, actual and inherited, real and imagined, that of survivors and perpetrators), and especially their relationship to the genocide as a historical event, shape the intern…
Private Archives, Public Deaths in Rwanda and Argentina
In 2016, I shot a documentary in Rwanda: The Faces We Lost (2017). It is a film about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate their loved ones who died during t
Smartphone film, memory’s connective turn and the aesthetics of embodiment in Do You Remember That Year? (2020)
Do You Remember That Year? (DYRTY?) is a short film about anxiety, privilege, and the difficulty of reconciling the internal and external stimuli that bombard us daily. DYRTY? probes the need to narrativize experiences that are recorded but not necessarily remembered in what Hoskins (2011) calls the memorial ‘connective turn.’ This submission examines the potential aesthetic and narrative responses to the ‘connective turn,’ defined asan ‘ontologi…
Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Genocide (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (4 works)