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- 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.
- When the name Hikueru is mentioned, all the other surrounding islands shudder with fear. Because in the story, when someone from Hikueru says anything it comes true. In Hikueru speech is sacred. Tapu was born in Hikueru. Until the age of nine, he grew up with his grandfather in Reka Reka. There is no better place in the universe than the Tuamotus, Tapu tells us. Tapu Bonnet descends from the great names of French Polynesia. He can recite his genealogy over several centuries. Forty years ago he was one of the seeds, one of those who renovated and restored this culture which was prohibited: walking on fire, tattooing... Incredible the flowering that there has been since that time of eighties.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Simon Deschamps is a bodysurfer, sculptor and carpenter. He built himself a house of pine and clay on the moors.
- 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.
- 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. Before each international competition, the Team Arupa and Tini Thai Boxing clubs come together for joint preparation. In this film, they are preparing a trip to New Zealand.
- Jonathan Bougard receives a package containing the first two known sculptures signed by Vaiere Mara, obtained at an auction in the United States thanks to the support of a generous patron. Vaiere Mara was the first modern Polynesian sculptor, and the first to sign his works.
- 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.
- The "Globe of Death" is a sensational, very dangerous circus act, which was popularized in the United States by Douglas Mac Valley. Mac Valley ended his days in Samoa, and he passed the baton to Bruno Loyale who has been presenting the "Globe of Death" in his Magic Circus of Samoa for thirty years. Within the Magic Circus of Samoa, three motorcycles compete in the metal globe. In 2019, for the first time a woman is at the helm: Yudy Serna Rodriguez is Colombian. In his family, all his brothers fly around the globe. She is the only girl. Her husband Sébastien Moreno Delgado is her partner in the globe. The third man is Brazilian. Together Yudy and Sébastien open and close the Magic Circus show, first with an aerial acrobatics number, then in the globe. They also rehearse a spectacular new number.
- 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.
- Kava is the drug of the Pacific. A soothing drink that puts everyone on the same level and encourages discussion. Michael Koch, a German linguist who lived in Fiji for a long time, explains to us why he is seeking to reintroduce this social act in Polynesia, while Sébastien Galliot, a researcher at the CNRS, sheds scientific light on this ritualized exchange.