Maxime Jean-Baptiste - Director, Writer known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Listen to the Voices» (2024),
Maxime Jean-Baptiste is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and Antillean diaspora diaspora in France, to a French mother and a Guyanese father. His interest as an artist is to dig inside the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of traumas from the past in the present. His audiovisual and performance work is focused on archives and forms of reenactment as a perspective to conceive a vivid and embodied memory. He graduated in Visual Arts [BA] at erg/école de recherche graphique, Brussels (BE) and in Media Arts [MA] at K.A.S.K. School of Arts, Ghent (BE), and participated in the SIC/SoundImageCulture program (2018-19). His audiovisual works have been shown at ISFF Oberhausen (DE), ISFF Clermont-Ferrand (FR), Kasseler DokFest (DE), Bamako Biennale (ML), Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival (PT), Athens Ethnographic Film Festival (GR), Bozar (BE), Sphinx Cinema (BE) among many others. His first film Nou voix (2018) was awarded the Jury Prize at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (FR).© ACMODASI, 2010- 2024
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