IN FOCUS: SONIC FRICTIONS – SHORT FILM PROGRAM II
MONDAY, 12.05. | 7:15 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
“Sometimes, when the ghost smiles it hurts his face”
In three short films, the last co-directed with his sister Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste amplifies, echoes and traces notions of presence and continuity, language and archive. Rewinding becomes a speculative practice that allows for meaning to emerge in the glitch, allowing to sense and listen into the void between frames, inhabited by beats and voices ever resisting capture and co-optation. Diasporic movements in cinemas, on film, kinship and records transcend time-spaces and space-times, revealing continuities of colonial violences and erasures. An assembly of haunting vocal expressions of agency and resistance around Guyanese representation and experience.
Maxime Jean-Baptiste is based between Brussels and Paris. He grew up in France, in the context of the Guyanese and West Indian diaspora. His audiovisual and performance work is focused on archives and forms of re-enactment as a perspective to conceive a vivid and embodied memory.
_______ sonic extensions by Soñ Gweha aka SOÑXSEED
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