Maxime Jean-Baptiste

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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).

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Between Nothingness and Infinity, I Began to Weep Trailer (2022)

29 September 2022

The piece centers on Jean-Baptiste’s cousin Lucas, who was brutally murdered ten years ago at the age of 18, while at a birthday party in Cayenne, French Guiana.

Listen to the Voices Trailer (2025)

16 July 2025

Melrick is an unruly young boy who spends his summer in French Guiana at his grandmother's house to escape his turbulent daily life in Stains, France.

Rio Remains Beautiful Trailer (2025)

10 August 2025

Within the revelry of Rio's Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd?

Moune Ô Trailer (2022)

02 June 2022

Maxime Jean-Baptiste continues the research he started in "Nou Voix" (2018) concerning colonial memory, the Guyanese diaspora, and the staging of Black bodies.

Nou Voix Trailer (2018)

21 August 2018

Nou Voix is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of Maxime’s father, as a Guyanese figurant in the movie Jean Galmot aventurier (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana.

Listen to the Beat of Our Images Trailer (2021)

16 August 2021

In 1961, France established its space-center in Kourou, French Guiana, expropriating local Guianese. Field investigation meets archival video to empower a silenced population.

The King Is Not My Cousin Trailer (2022)

18 March 2022

Author of "Sunny Karukera, stranded Guadeloupe" (1980), Elzéa De Aventurin indulges, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter.