L’autodocumentaire et ses tiers : Gilbert Ndahayo entre réconciliation personnelle et nationale au Rwanda.” Témoigner entre Histoire et Mémoire. Revue Internationale de la Fondation Auschwitz (Article)
Title: L’autodocumentaire et ses tiers : Gilbert Ndahayo entre réconciliation personnelle et nationale au Rwanda.” Témoigner entre Histoire et Mémoire. Revue Internationale de la Fondation Auschwitz
Author: Alexandre Dauge-Roth
Abstract: Article explores how Gilbert Ndahayo, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi, crafts an unprecedented doc journey to find out what happened to his parents & relatives & how he should culturally & visually honor their memory as their orphaned heir. In Beyond the Deadly Pit, Ndahayo places viewers in front of a provocative collage thr which he puts into dialogue several mediums, voices, & archiving practices that all produce diff if not conflicting representations of the genocide of 1994. What is remarkable in this first autodocumentary by a Tutsi survivor, is that it offers a unique insight about the dilemmas that survivors must negotiate in their desire to bear witness & influence how this divisive past ought to be remembered today. Ndahayo archives & juxtaposes in a nonchronological manner personal footage like the unearthing of parents’ remains, the ritual of washing their bones, the memorial sites where they are finally buried w/ dignity, the judicial hearing where the filmmaker confronts the killers of his parents w/ public media archives featuring discourses of politicians like Bill Clinton or Ban Ki-Moon asking for forgiveness for their inactions in 1994. By doing so, Ndahayo achieves several goals...
Year: 2015
Publisher: Testimony Between History and Memory. Auschwitz Foundation International Quarterly 120

Auto-Documenting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: The testimonial Encounter Within the Cinema of Me. (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Auto-Documenting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: The testimonial Encounter Within the Cinema of Me.
Abstract: The testimonial Encounter Within the Cinema of Me
Author: Alexandre Dauge-Roth
Date: 11/11/2013
Location: The University of Iowa, Iowa City

The Autodocumentary Gesture within the National Reconciliation Process in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: The Autodocumentary Gesture within the National Reconciliation Process in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Abstract: Adresses au tiers et postures des tiers dans l’activité mémorielle
Author: Alexandre Dauge-Roth
Date: 04/26/12
Location: Université de Montréal, Montreal

Witnessing and Documenting Personal and National Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Witnessing and Documenting Personal and National Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Author: Alexandre Dauge-Roth
Abstract: Third International Conference on Genocide: Negationism, Revisionism, Survivors’ Testimonies, Eyewitness Accounts, Justice and Memory
Date: 11/01/11
Conference Name: Third International Conference on Genocide: Negationism, Revisionism, Survivors’ Testimonies, Eyewitness Accounts, Justice and Memory. California State University, Sacramento

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