LISTEN TO THE BEAT OF OUR IMAGES
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Synopsis
Based on audiovisual archives from France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES), Listen to the Beat of Our Images deals with the establishment of the Guyanese Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, from the perspective of a young Guyanese woman, who watches as the land around her is transformed.
Listen to the Beat of Our Images screens as part of the shorts program Colonial (Dis)entanglements, on Sunday, June 27 at 1:45 pm.
About the Director
Audrey Jean-Baptiste is a documentary and narrative filmmaker. She works between France and French Guiana. Her films address issues of race, gender and sexuality. Her first documentary film Fabulous (2019) was selected for about fifty international festivals, including IDFA. 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 at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Her third film, Goodbye Childhood (2021), is currently in post-production.
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 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 from which to conceive a vivid and embodied memory. His first film, Nou voix (2018), was selected for about thirty festivals and art exhibitions, and was awarded the jury prize at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de 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, ISFF Clermont-Ferrrand among others. His next film, Moune Ô (2021), is in the process of distribution.
