Shaped Cinema https://vimeo.com/18989804
HD, 13', Silent, Color

Shaped Cinema is a video that brings Frank Stella’s Shaped Canvases to life, setting them in motion alongside the critical words of William Rubin from 1970. The editing process mirrors the logic of the paintings themselves—just as Stella’s canvases are shaped by their content, the video is structured by the visual dynamics of his work.
This project exists as a video, five photographic prints, and an artist’s book. Created in 2010–2011 at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the artist’s book was later published by the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

Extract of the catalogue of Allen&Overy Collection: "Here, the Frenchman Maitre works as a Deconstructivist, a term coined by Maitre’s fellow countryman and philosopher Jacques Derrida. The paintings of the most progressive geometric shaped canvas artist of his time, Frank Stella, are “deconstructed” into strips and then rebuilt into a new work of art."

This work has been acquired by: StedelijkMuseum, Amsterdam; collection Allen & Overy Netherlands Partners; andaz-Hyatt video collection; Private collections (NL, BL) -

more on Shaped Cinema

Richard Anuszkiewicz RAIN CUHZASRK DIEWICZ
(Weaving Film Series) https://vimeo.com/56150352  HD video silent, color, 2'25"

I re-sequenced the frames of a 1965 video documenting Richard Anuszkiewicz painting an abstract geometric piece, disrupting its linear progression. This manipulation replaces narrative continuity with a dynamic, flickering optical effect that stimulates visual perception over cognitive interpretation.

JOKES https://vimeo.com/167737447 HD, 13', Silent, Color

This video originates from a series of paintings that were scanned and digitally reworked through a video editing process to generate motion. The paintings themselves feature abstract patterns created using various analog techniques, accompanied with words drawn from jokes in *The New Yorker* comic strips.

JOKES
Prologue: a man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 1: JIM. Jim receives a note under the door, he is intrigued, especially because it's the door of the closet. A man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 2: KEVIN. Goodbye Kevin, I could look the other way with the boozing and the skirt-chasing but I did not sign-up for Bicycle clothes. A man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 3: THE CAGE. Well, I checked again and we are definitely the ones inside the cage. A man opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door. He opens the door, sees the devil and closes the door.
Chapter 4: ?. A helicopter is searching for a car on the road during the night.
THE END

Flicker Stack Fire (weaving films series) https://youtu.be/n2rpCMl303c HD video, silent, color, 1'11'

Flicker Stack Fire is a video created by weaving together three rotating camera movements around a stacked arrangement of objects: a coffee cup at the bottom, a canister of hair spray on top of it, and a super-8 camera placed on a tripod —all positioned on a round straw carpet.

The Magic Vase https://vimeo.com/108713903 HD video, silent, color
animation video made by creating and scanning large paintings containing all the film frames. The video explores the looting of the Iraq Museum of Baghdad on april 9th 2003, based on Donald Rumsfeld's description:

The images you are seeing on television
you are seeing
over and over and over
and it’s the same picture
of some person
walking out of some building
with a vase
and you see it twenty times
and you think:
my goodness, were there that many vases?

(U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Press Briefing at the Pentagon, USA, April 11th 2003)

Mandala République https://vimeo.com/90836243 HD video, color, silent

An Interview with Jayson Blaire (in my studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie)

https://vimeo.com/43758139

In the 2000s, American journalist Jayson Blair was exposed for fabricating stories, admitting he never visited the sites he reported on. Artist Jean-Baptiste Maitre reenacts the coverage of this scandal, staging the narrative within his studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, surrounded by his works in progress. Fluorescent tube lights flicker in response to the camera’s sensors, creating an interplay of light and perception. The piece draws a parallel between the construction of an artist’s work—its visual mediation and oral presentation—and the fabrication of facts in journalism.