{"id":1801,"date":"2012-12-15T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2013.africanfilmfestival.org\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2013-01-03T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T06:02:59","slug":"grey-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/grey-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"GREY MATTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Grey Matter<\/i> is the first Rwandan feature film made by a Rwandan director. This film-within-a-film, set in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, quietly and brilliantly explores what it is like to survive the aftermath of a genocide. The film follows three separate, yet intertwining, stories. In the outer story, Balthazar, a young filmmaker, attempts to find government funding for his debut film, <i>The Cycle of the Cockroach<\/i>, only to be turned down because his film focuses too much on the past. Undeterred, he borrows money from a loan shark. The viewer then sees Balthazar\u2019s film being played out on the screen, dramatizing two inner stories. One story is the portrayal of a former assassin locked in a mental institution where he relives the genocide; the other depicts the day-to-day struggles of Yvan and Justine, brother and sister survivors, who are valiantly trying to rebuild their lives. Film source: Global Films Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>In Kinyarwanda and French with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Lewis &amp; Clark College.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GREY MATTER (Matiere Grise)\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kK1mSaSdFQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grey Matter is the first Rwandan feature film made by a Rwandan director. This film-within-a-film, set in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, quietly and brilliantly explores what it is like to survive the aftermath of a genocide. The film follows three separate, yet intertwining, stories. In the outer story, Balthazar, a young filmmaker, attempts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanfilmfestival.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}