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- Better known as Sampaguita Jay, Jade is one of the black and gray tattoo specialists in France. With the Mark of the Four Wawes Tribe collective, she helps popularize traditional Filipino tattooing, where she is from. In Moorea in French Polynesia she experienced one of the happiest days of her life during the Tatau i Moorea festival.
- Everyone is versatile, which explains the success of Théo who has represented Tahitian dance all over the world for 36 years. Nobody is idle at Théo Sulpice, yet always in a good mood.
- Tatak ng apat na alon tribe, is better known in English as Mark of the four wawes tribe. Made up of just over 150 members, this collective based in Los Angeles popularizes traditional Filipino tattooing around the world. At its head for more than twenty years, we find the famous artist Elle Festin and his wife, Zelle Festin.
- During the health crisis, employees of a McDonald's restaurant placed in compulsory liquidation in Marseille have requisitioned the place to turn it into a food distribution platform.
- This film focuses on the links between Maori tattoo artists from New Zealand (James Webster, Juliee Paama Penguely, Moko de la Terre) and those from French Polynesia (Roonui Anania, Chimé, Laurent Purotu). With interventions by specialists Sébastien Galliot and Michael Koch.
- Toetu Ha Song has been the famous clown of Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa for over twenty years. He loves to entertain people, especially children, and considers his uniqueness to be a gift from heaven. Every evening, he makes an audience of several hundred people laugh with his act. The Magic Circus of Samoa is the only circus in the Pacific. It is very popular from Polynesia to Australia.
- How at the beginning of 2022, while doing research in France on Henriette Lorimier and the women painters of the early 19th century, in a cellar in Bagneux Jonathan Bougard came across a bust signed Muta Mayola, the most important Congolese sculptor of the twentieth century, of which we thought all the works had disappeared. At the same time as on a set of works by his students and nephews Grégoire Massengo, Benoit Konongo and Edouard Malonga. The fathers of modern Congolese sculpture, main representatives of the Muta Mayola school.
- Discovery of the community of Vitaria, on the island of Rurutu in the Austral archipelago in Polynesia. In Vitaria we are Rurutu Protestants. This church draws on its autochthony to regain control over individuals and their native land. To stay in the symbolism, it should be noted that the geographical point furthest from Jerusalem is located in the Austral archipelago, south of the island of Rapa. The prism of local Christianity will be an opportunity to focus on the lives of the people of Vitaria, to get to know Patia Taputu, a charismatic character who is a farmer, breeder and fisherman. His wife Tiare is a recognized craftswoman. The couple raised their seven children on vanilla, coffee, egg production and making woven hats from white pandanus.
- Tefana Tufaimea is a figure from the commune of Faa'a, on the island of Tahiti. He is the champion of traditional Maohi sports in the aito category (stone lifting, fruit carrier race and canoe). He is also a dancer and Mister Mini Heiva. Portrait of a discreet man who deserves to be known.
- Meeting with traditional tattoo artist Moana Heitaa. Moana uses the combs. Born in Tahiti, he learned with his Hawaiian mentor Heizea of Soul Pacific Signature, before traveling to the Pacific to deepen his knowledge and rediscover this ancestral art which has continued in Samoa and Tonga.
- Vincent Greby is a French artist who divides his life between Kathmandu and Seoul. While passing through his family home in Gournay, he received a visit from his friend Jonathan Bougard who was returning from Polynesia. They haven't been seen for twenty years. Vincent presents him with some Putali from the Jajarkot district, ex votos of primitive Himalayan art, as well as a large African mask signed Grégoire Massengo, and then some of the paintings which made him known in Asia.
- A day in the life of the painter Mériadeg Courtet, from the Pont des Arts to the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Mériadeg opened the greatest artistic quats in Paris during the golden age of this movement, between the 80s and 2000. He still practices a raw and uncompromising art and has not calmed down. Far from there. From squats to zones to defend, often interned in psychiatric units, he is perhaps the last dinosaur of punk still active.
- Laetitia Ky in Paris. Laetitia Ky began by sculpting her hair, then she moved on to painting, writing, cinema, and recently modeling terracotta. She does nothing like the others, and multiplies projects... Meeting on the occasion of the finishing of his exhibition Who's that woman? LIS10 gallery in Paris. Also featuring Alessandro Romanini, curator of the exhibition, Alberto Chiavacci, gallery owner, and Jacobleu, Ivorian artist and cultural operator.
- Twenty years later, Jonathan Bougard is back at the adventure playground in Montreuil. A place full of power and stories. He recounts some memories of the time when he squatted in a building nearby with Polish undocumented immigrants, the Mix. And also a curious story of hallucination and voices in the head.
- What is the daily life of Turkish Sultan Kosen, the tallest man in the world, like in Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa, for a month on the Apogoti site in New Caledonia? Some accuse the circus of exploiting it, what is it really? Sultan has been making a living performing in the Pacific Islands for years.
- Born in 1968 in Manchester, Great Britain. Painter, writer, and singer with LARYNX AND CLAW (and formerly "The Umbilical Chords"), Scott Batty has produced several books of images and poems, notably at Dernier Cri ("Gas Flowers") and L'Hippopotame de Thèbes ("Peeling Angels").
- Païwan People share a rich tattooing tradition which was closely related to cultural identity and social status before the vanishement during WWII. This contributes to give Cudjuy Patjidres the motivation of the tattoing revival. Cudjuy is actualy the only traditionnal tattooist in Taïwan. He learn his art to Bai Ai Païwan tatoo artist. Suliljaw Lusaujatj, student of the Departement of Anthropology of the College of Asia and the Pacific help him as stretcher. Suliljaw reccord also the tattooing.
- Chronicle of the first tattoo festival which was held at the end of March and beginning of April 2017 at the town hall of Faa'a in Tahiti. With Moana Heitaa, Pai Aritai, Patu, Tuatini Tamata, Tana Tokoragi, Estelle Anania miss Ink Girl France 2017 godmother of the festival and around fifteen young tattoo artists for whom it was the first festival.
- In the 1980s almost no one was tattooed in Polynesia. With the cultural renaissance in general, and also political demands at different levels, tattooing has once again become a form of expression and also a certain attitude, sometimes described as maohitude. Today we no longer live in traditional societies. Tavana Salmon tattoos Chimé when he was fourteen years old. Chimé liked drawing and painting, and in addition his cousin Laurent Purotu began to learn engraving and sculpture at the arts and crafts center. And every time he left school, he showed his cousin what he had learned. Chimé introduces himself as Tahua Tatau. A tattoo artist from Moorea, he has been living in Europe for over twenty years. Today his salon is located in Bordeaux. Roonui Anania, Chimé and Purotu started tattooing themselves and tattooing in the street, by snatch, that means with sewing needles attached to match sticks, then electric razors. Indian ink in a beer cap and off we went. Then Tavana Salmon brought back the first pig tooth combs, which they were not able to use for long due to hygiene. Impossible to sterilize. We had to go back to the electric razor, look for solutions. This film tells the story of the rebirth of Polynesian tattooing, then its expansion, told by the three greatest masters of Polynesian tattooing.
- Boxer, fisherman, murderer, jailbird, Terii Lenoir does not mince his words. Aged 65, this former boxer still beats up the little thugs who come to hang out a little too close to his cabin, at the foot of a mango tree, on the edge of the Tahiti lagoon.
- JR show on November 12, 2023 on the facade of the Palais Garnier. Chiroptera in the cave. Darkness holds the grace of the light Choreography by Damien Jalet for 143 dancers. Music by Thomas Banglater. Soloist Amandine Albisson. Thank you JR for so much inspiring creativity.
- Every spring the Parisian Asian community and cosplayers meet at the Parc de Sceaux to celebrate the ephemeral flowering of the 144 sakuras, the pink cherry trees of Japan, in the northern grove of the estate. Hanami means looking at flowers in Japanese. In 2023 the theme chosen for the festivities was manga.
- Tahiti, an island where people dance every night. We rehearse for the Heiva festivities, a dance competition where large troupes compete each July. The film follows a young girl from Raiatea, Calicia Taufa, second prize for best dancer at Heiva i Tahiti 2017, filmed day by day from the first rehearsals to the synod of the Maohi Protestant church in Taravao after the Heiva.
- Portrait of a silent old man, with a life full of drama. Moussake comes from the remote Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia. He makes a living from picking Tahitian tiaras and performing musical events at the Papeete market. The film follows him along the congested roads of the Tahitian capital, then into the cabin where he makes flower crowns and receives visits from his children.
- This film takes the form of an investigation into the life and work of the sculptor Vaiere Mara, born in 1936 in Rurutu, in the Austral Islands (French Polynesia) and died in Arue in 2005. Mara sculpted wood, coral and stone and his production was remarkable and noticed from the 1960s. Many local personalities placed orders with the man whom some considered the first contemporary Polynesian artist. The film traces the director's journey in search of Mara's works, scattered across islands and continents, and the personal story of this exceptional artist. Combining testimonies from those close to him, reconstructions of the founding moments of his career and documentation of the works found, this film appears as an investigation that is at once human, artistic and detective... which allows us to reconstruct the context of Vaiere Mara's creation.
- The furrie phenomenon is young people who come together dressed as giant stuffed animals. An international movement still little known to the general public. We go to meet a group of furries who are celebrating the cherry blossoms at Parc de Sceaux.
- Kamel Guémarri is one of the founders of fast social food. Nicknamed the wild hamburger by its associates. After 24 years spent at the Mac Donald in the Sainte Marthe district, in the north of Marseille, the the most deprived area in Europe, this place helped him regain self-confidence. He worked in this place for 24 years, it was a restaurant like no other because most of the workers and workers came from single-parent families, but it was a landmark, the small place du village.
- Somewhere in the south of France, Jonathan Bougard continues his search for sculptures from the Muta Mayola school. He visits a gentleman who has stored nine giant heads of Benoit Konongo, the first Congolese sculptor to have received an order from the colonial power. France was then occupied and Brazzaville was the capital of Free France. It just goes to show that everything can change very quickly.
- With Jean-Luc Aka-Evy, author of Le Cri de Picasso (Ed Présence Africaine), Souleymane Bachir Diagne, author of L' Encre des savants and Director of the collection La philosophie en tous lettres (Ed Présence Africaine) and Daniel Dauvois, author of Anton Wilhelm Amo, a philosophy of the implicit (Ed Présence Africaine). Conference given as part of the second African book fair in Paris (6th arrondissement town hall) on Sunday March 19, 2023. Followed by an exchange with the public.
- Almost all young people in Vaininiore are into sports. Some in the dugout, others in football, volleyball, but most are in boxing. Thai boxing. Behind the Eastern Bridge fire station in Papeete, the Vaininiore district has the reputation of being a red-light district. This is where a hard core of around twenty fighters trains in the evening, but there are new ones arriving all the time... Not all of them last long... Team Arupa is Hentz Tinomoe. He is a good coach, patient, a little tough when it comes to training... There is a good atmosphere, good understanding, a good spirit of cohesion at Vaininiore, VNR for the young people... A united team. This film chronicles the Team Black Devil gala in Vairao, a slightly hectic evening of Thai boxing, but which allowed the Federation to move things in the right direction.
- As elsewhere in Polynesia where there is not much for young people, they spend a lot of time on the side of the road. But they drink less there than elsewhere and don't smoke at all. In Tahiti, Vaininiore has the reputation of being a red-light district. However, while walking there, we will meet young people full of joie de vivre, smiling, a little rowdy... They spend their days playing football on the field, and at five o'clock every evening they have training with Hentz Tinomoe, the neighborhood colossus, three times Polynesian Thai boxing champion in the super-heavyweight category. His club, Team Arupa, is one of those fairly tight sub-groups: to be admitted you must first run to the dike, then put on gloves and exchange blows. We are far from the ideological and cultural struggles of certain other more socially advantaged groups, and from the smoky boredom, from the tension perceptible in other neighborhoods: here we are in a daily practice, in a discipline in every sense of the word . While meeting Hentz Tinomoe I quickly met his enemy brother Roland Tiaipoi. He also takes care of the young people in his neighborhood of Tipaerui, he also channels them. It's long-term work, as Roland Darrouzes, president of the Tahitian Federation of Thai Boxing and associated disciplines, says. Roland and Hentz are not alone, Polynesia has around fifteen clubs, but they are the biggest. Unknown to the general public, they chose pragmatism.
- Almost all young people in Vaininiore are into sports. Some in the dugout, others in football, volleyball, but most are in boxing. Thai boxing. Behind the Eastern Bridge fire station in Papeete, the Vaininiore district has the reputation of being a red-light district. This is where a hard core of around twenty fighters trains in the evening, but there are new ones arriving all the time... Not all of them last long... Team Arupa is Hentz Tinomoe. He is a good coach, patient, a little tough when it comes to training... There is a good atmosphere, good understanding, a good spirit of cohesion at Vaininiore, VNR for the young people... A united team. In this film, Team Arupa VNR goes down to the Vairao peninsula for Team Black Devil.
- Simon Deschamps is a bodysurfer, sculptor and carpenter. He built himself a house of pine and clay on the moors.
- Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
- Semetua was Sem Manutahi, master of ceremonies and central figure of the "Tipaerui Valley" association. His role in the association was to find legends, and to set up traditional activities or ceremonies, in the upper valley of Tipaerui in the heart of the island of Tahiti. "This valley has a soul, a spirit that we always respect when we come. He said. It is animated by the spirit of the Mamaia. These people that we rarely met, that we feared and respected also, in the days of royalty. Some say they were healers, others say they were seers." Speaker on several occasions for troops at Heiva i Tahiti, master of ceremonies for the Tipaeui Valley association, Semetua has made his voice resonate on numerous occasions, to tell stories, protect a valley or quite simply defend his convictions.
- Makau Foster is a Tahitian dance choreographer and founder of the famous Tamariki Poerani troupe. On January 30, 2016, 2,950 dancers gathered in Makau on the island of Tahiti to beat the ori Tahiti world record held by Mexico. It happened on the Atimaono golf course.
- Follow-up of the beekeeping training provided in Tahiti for six months by Stéphane Brouttier. The training takes place on the heights of the Tiapaerui valley. The most important thing is to learn how to look for wild swarms in the wild. Among the students, Romus Nanaia, who has lived in the heart of the valley for years, guardian of the Tipaerui Valley association.
- The return of the enfant terribles of direct action, Guillaume Tel4 and Gilles Broussaud. Very active on the French alternative scene in the 1990s, they seem to have disappeared from the landscape for around twenty years. Jonathan Bougard found them and filmed a new performance, in the heart of Montreuil in Seine Saint Denis.
- Charne Potgieter Salgueiroza is a South African contortionist and acrobat who performs primarily in Dubai, South America and the Pacific. We get to know her within Bruno Loyale's Magic Circus of Samoa, the only circus in the Pacific. Every evening she presents two different numbers. Sometimes there are several performances per day.