Image and Memory

An Interview with Eric Kabera

Bibliographic Data

ID12244333
AuthorsPiotr Cieplak (0000-0001-9839-3225, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Piotr A Cieplak (University of Cambridge)
Year2009
Volume20
Issue2
Pages199-208
Publication date2009-04-28
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957155809102636
OpenAlexW1974028902
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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 the country's rural populations. This interview focuses on Kabera's documentary film The Keepers of Memory: Survivors' Accounts of the Rwandan Genocide (2005), which traces the individual trajectories of those affected by the genocide and gives them a platform to voice their experience. Special attention is paid to the relationship with physical surrounding, to image and to the internal and external experience of trauma and memory in their collective and individual forms. The theoretical assertions about memory recording are juxtaposed with pragmatic issues encountered by a filmmaker as practitioner. The interview was conducted on 30 March 2008 in Kigali, Rwanda

Art · Art history · Collective memory · Documentary film · Film director · Film festival · Genocide · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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