Masques

This project is an immersion in French Guiana Carnival, one of the longest lasting in the world…An attempt to decipher a tradition and its codes : Masked Ball, the way it is experienced nowadays by all sorts of backgrounds people... Behind the mask everything is possible. During this laps of celebration, everybody enjoys embodying mythical guyanese carnival characters, who belong Guiana history, whether cutter of sugar canes, maroon or golddigger. You don’t mess with tradition down here ! As we can discover through the evocation of a masked ball back in 1946, when, for unclear reasons, African soldiers put Cayenne to fire and the sword. Today, every single edition of the Carnival, sees the events of this local event of history come out, like a legend.