LISTEN TO THE BEAT OF OUR IMAGES

60 years ago, French government decided to establish its space center in Kourou (French Guiana, South America). 600 Guyanese people were expropriated to allow France to realize its dream of space conquest. Combining field investigation and video-editing processes on archives, Listen to the Beat of Our Images gives a voice to an invisibilized and silenced population

AUDREY JEAN-BAPTISTE. She works between France and French Guiana. Her films address issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Her second movie, Listen to the Beat of our Images, codirected with her brother Maxime Jean-Baptiste, was selected at CPH: DOX, Hotdocs and at the ClermontFerrand

MAXIME JEAN-BAPTISTE. 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.