• Écoutez le battement de nos images
  • Écoutez le battement de nos images
  • Écoutez le battement de nos images
Competition - French independent short films
Écoutez le battement de nos images
Listen to the Beat of Our Images

Audrey & Maxime Jean-Baptiste
Documentary | France | 2021 | 15min
SYNOPSIS

60 years ago, the French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou, French Guyana. 600 Guyanese were expropriated to allow France to accomplish its dream of space conquest. Combining field research and archive images, Listen to the Beat of Our Images gives a voice to a population that has been silenced and made invisible.

CAST

Voice : Rose Martine

About the directors

audrey_jean_baptisteAudrey Jean-Baptiste is a documentary and fiction film director. She works between France and French Guyana. Her films address issues of race, gender and sexuality. Her first documentary film Fabulous (2019) was selected in about 50 international festivals such as IDFA. A national release was scheduled for December 9, 2020. Her second film, Listen to the Beat of Our Images, co-directed with her brother Maxime Jean-Baptiste, was selected at CPH:DOX, Hotdocs and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Her third film Adieu l'enfance (2021), produced by Grand Huit Films, is currently in post-production.

maxime_jean_baptisteMaxime Jean-Baptiste is a filmmaker based between Brussels and Paris. He was born and raised in the context of the Guyanese and West Indian diaspora in France, to a French mother and a Guyanese father. As an artist, he is interested in digging into the complexity of Western colonial history by detecting the survival of past trauma in the present. His audiovisual and performance work focuses on archives and forms of reenactment as a perspective for conceiving a living, embodied memory. His first film Nou voix (2018) has been selected in over 30 art festivals and exhibitions, and received the Jury Prize at the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux in Paris (FR). His second film, Listen to the Beat of Our Images, co-directed with his sister Audrey Jean-Baptiste was selected at CPH:DOX, Hotdocs and ISFF Clermont-Ferrrand. His next film, Moune Ô (2021), is currently being distributed.

FILM INFO
Year : 2021
Country : France
Runtime : 15min
Language : French (with English subtitles)
Colour : -

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