French musician, screenwriter, film director and editor.

Maxime JEAN-BAPTISTE is a musician, screenwriter, film director and editor. He is known for "Écouter le battement de nos images" (2020, codirected with Audrey JEAN-BAPTISTE) et "Nou voix" (2018).

Maxime Jean-Baptiste (1993, FR) is a filmmaker based in Brussels and Paris. Born and raised in the context of the Guyano-Antillese diaspora in France, of a French mother and Guyanese father, his intrest as 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 performing work is focused on the form of the reenactment as a perspective to conceive a vivid and embodied memory. He has been 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 is now participant of SIC / SoundImageCulture program. He works with several artists and theorists as collaborator or video editor (Bie Michels, Lotte Arndt, Vincent Meessen, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer, Guy Wouété) and presents his audiovisual works at Bozar (BE), Enough Room for Space (BE), Kabinet Film (BE), Sphinx Cinema (BE), Khiasma (FR), Portes Ouvertes de Belleville (FR), Kask Cinema (BE), NO FLASH Video Show (USA)...

Filmography

"Écouter le battement de nos images"
2020 - 15 minutes
Codirected by Audrey JEAN-BAPTISTE & Maxime JEAN-BAPTISTE
Production: CNES

"Nou voix"
2018, Video, Color, Sound, 00:14:27

Source:
www.cjcinema.org/pages/fiche_auteur.php?auteur=1274
https://cnes-observatoire.fr/ode-evenements/2020-08-27_nuit-blanche-2020/nuit-blanche-2020.html
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