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Moune Ô

Still from the film "Moune Ô" by Maxime Jean-Baptiste. People walk through a crowded street with musical instruments in their hands.
© Maxime Jean-Baptiste
  • Director

    Maxime Jean-Baptiste

  • French Guiana, France, Belgium / 2022
    17 min. / Original version with English subtitles

  • Original language

    French

“I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that’s the end.” 
By presenting the festive events which accompanied the premiere of the film JEAN GALMOT, AVENTURIER (1990) by Alain Maline, in which the filmmaker’s father played a role, the images of MOUNE Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a western collective unconscious always marked as stereotypes. From little gestures of daily life, the resistance toward oppression comes in its own rhythm.

Maxime Jean-Baptiste is a filmmaker based in Brussels and Paris. MOUNE Ô premiered at Forum Expanded 2022.

Forum Expanded catalog 2022

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