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Moune Ô
by Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Belgium, France, French Guiana, 2022, 16’47’’
Presented at the 18th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2025
Film part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 14th edition, 2025
Scenes of festive events accompanied the premiere of the film Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990) by Alain Maline, a “celebration” of the French presence in Guyana, in which Jean-Baptsite’s father appeared as an extra. By slowing down and rewinding this footage, together with video images surrounding the making of Maline’s film, Moune Ô reveals the colonial inheritance within the Western collective unconscious, still marked by persistent stereotypes. Through these technological alterations, Jean-Baptiste creates a retroactive challenge to colonial memory.
Maxime Jean-Baptiste (France, 1993). Based between Belgium, France, and French Guinea.
Recent screenings included: Locarno Film Festival (Locarno); Berlinale Film Festival (Berlin); Sundance Film Festival (Utah), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen); Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Toronto); Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand); IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Amsterdam). He has created several scenic productions, mixing theatre, dance, and song in the context of Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Tate Modern (London), e-flux Screening Room (Brooklyn), among others.
Recent screenings included: Locarno Film Festival (Locarno); Berlinale Film Festival (Berlin); Sundance Film Festival (Utah), CPH:DOX (Copenhagen); Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Toronto); Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand); IDFA – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Amsterdam). He has created several scenic productions, mixing theatre, dance, and song in the context of Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Tate Modern (London), e-flux Screening Room (Brooklyn), among others.