MOUNE Ô
Maxime Jean-Baptiste | Blegium, French-Guayana, France 2022 | 17 Min. | French with engl. Subtitles
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 7:45 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
Part of the Short Film Program IN FOCUS: sonic frictions I
Maxime Jean-Baptiste gently scrubs the VHS material of the premiere of a documentary his father appears in as an extra, a reenactment of the murdertrial of a colonial adventurer. Carefully he makes the images of a Guianese carnival tremble, as it depicts the escorting of the celebratory gathering into the cinema hall through the Parisian streets of the 90s. A celebration of representation and spectacle that only when shook and torn, stretched and interrogated reveals the violence of cinematic capture and its colonial entanglements. Carried by the beat of Josy Masses name giving song Moune Ô, we bear witness to the release of raging waters, reclaiming authorship whilst restituting language and bodies.
Director: Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Camera: Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Editing: Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Sound: Patrick Hubard
Production: La Loge: Antoinette Jattiot, Wim Waelput
SCREENINGS & AWARDS (SELECTION)
Berlinale, Germany (10 – 20 February, 2022) Forum Expanded
Go Short – International Short Film Festival, Netherlands (1 – 10 April, 2022) International Competition
Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany (31 May – 6 June, 2022 )International Competition
Olhar de Cinema – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba, Brazil (1 – 9 June, 2022) Olhares Brasil
Costa Rica International Film Festival, Costa Rica (9 – 19 June, 2022) Enfoque
Artists Film Festival, Israël (16 – 18 June, 2022) Official Selection
Third Horizon Film Festival, United States (23 – 26 June, 2022) Official Selection
Festival ECRÃ, Brazil (1 – 10 July, 2022) Official Selection
Dokufest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kosovo (5 – 13 August, 2022) Short Dox Competition
Silhouette Short Film Festival, France (26 August – 3 September, 2022) Documentary Competition Won: Best Short Documentary
Open City Documentary Festival, United Kingdom (7 – 13 September, 2022) UK PREMIERE What Rules The Invisible
Camden International Film Festival, United States (15 – 18 September, 2022) Official Selection
Villa Medici Film Festival, Italy (14 – 18 September, 2022) ITALIAN PREMIERE Official Selection
BIOGRAPHY
Maxime JEAN-BAPTISTE (1993) is a filmmaker who works between Brussels and Paris. He grew up in France, in the context of the Guyanese and West Indian diaspora. As an artist, he is interested in the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting and portraying the survival of past traumas in the present. In doing so, he delves into archives and types of reenactments that imagine living and embodied memories.
