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Jonathan Bougard
Jonathan Bougard is a French designer and documentary film director active in French Polynesia since 2005. Biography Bougard was born in Saint-Malo. An active artist since 2005, he made himself known in Tahiti by offering a thirty-meter-long fresco at the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands in 2008, on the theme of Mana. In 2010, he exhibited in Saint-Louis, Senegal. From 2012 and until 2015 he was a columnist for ''La Dépêche de Tahiti''. In 2014 he chaired the Teroronui Contemporary Creation Center in Papeete, an artist collective with Chief Miko and Teva Victor. He subsequently organized the first retrospective of the sculptor Vaiere Mara. Since 2015, he has devoted himself mainly to writing, directing and producing a large number of documentary films on significant French Polynesians. First the In Vivo collection, five intimate and lunar portraits co-directed with Jean-Philippe Joaquim and broadcast on the TNTV channel. The first was dedicated to the singer Barthélémy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Polynesia
French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The total land area of French Polynesia is , with a population of 278,786 (Aug. 2022 census) of which at least 205,000 live in the Society Islands and the remaining population lives in the rest of the archipelago. French Polynesia is divided into five island groups: the Austral Islands; the Gambier Islands; the Marquesas Islands; the Society Islands (comprising the Leeward Islands (Society Islands), Leeward and Windward Islands (Society Islands), Windward Islands); and the Tuamotus. Among its 121 islands and atolls, 75 were inhabited at the 2017 census. Tahiti, which is in the Society Islands group, is the most populous island, being home to nearly 69% of the population of French Polynesia . Papeete, located on Tahiti, is the capital of French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mairai
John Tapu Mairai (28 November 1945 – 22 December 2023) was a French Polynesian poet, actor, orator, playwright, teacher, journalist, and broadcaster. He was a pioneer of Tahitian language, Reo Tahiti theater and a member of the Tahitian Academy. Biography Mairai was born on 28 November 1945 in Papeete, and grew up in Mataiva in the Tuamotus. He was educated at Lycée Paul-Gauguin in Tahiti before studying fine arts at Graceland University in the United States. On returning to French Polynesia he worked as a sailor, before joining the Territorial Office for Cultural Action. In 1983 he founded the theater company ''Teata Maruao'' ("theatre of the dawn"), and in 1987 produced ''Maro Putoto'', an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Reo Tahiti. In 1992 he produced ''Te Manu Tane'', a Reo Tahiti adaptation of Molière's ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''. He also produced other plays based on Tahitian history, including "Opuhara" and "Tavi roi et la loi". He later worked as a sports jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Polynesian Artists
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People From Saint-Malo
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Living People
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Gastineau Massamba
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Muta Mayola
Muta may refer to: Acronyms * MUTA, an acronym for the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations * MUTA, an acronym for Male Urogenital Teaching Associate, in medical education * MUTA, an abbreviation in the United States Army Reserve for a "Multiple Unit Training Assembly" (multiple refers not to multiple units but the multiple pay periods (usually four) for which reserve component soldiers receive credit for attending Battle Assembly) * MUTA, an abbreviation for Murray Bridge Training Area in South Australia, used by the Australian Army Places * Municipality of Muta, in Slovenia * Muta, Muta, a settlement in Slovenia * Mu'tah, a town in Jordan and site of the 7th-century Battle of Mu'tah * Pagoda of Fogong Temple, known as ''Muta'', a wooden pagoda in Shanxi Province, China People * Muta (surname) (including a list of people with the name) * Muta of Daylam (died 640s), an Iranian king * Keiji Mutoh (born 1962), Japanese wrestler known as The Great Muta * Miroslav Nikolić ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic Movement
Panic Movement () was an art collective formed by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean and French Experimental film, avant-garde filmmaker. Known for his films ''El Topo'' (1970), ''The Holy Mountain (1973 film), The Holy Mountain'' (1973) and ''Santa Sangre'' ..., and Roland Topor in Paris in 1962. Inspired by and named after the god Pan (mythology), Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty, the group concentrated on chaotic and surreal performance art, as a response to surrealism becoming mainstream. The movement's violent theatrical events were designed to be shocking, and to release destructive energies in search of peace and beauty. One four-hour performance known as ''Sacramental Melodrama'' was staged in May 1965 at the Paris Festival of Free Expression. The "happening" starred Jodorowsky dressed in motorcyclist leather and featured him slitting the throats of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Arrabal Terán (; ; born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled". Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films and has published over 100 plays; 14 novels; 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artists' books; several essays; and his notorious "Letter to General Franco" during the dictator's lifetime. His complete plays have been published, in multiple languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages. ''The New York Times'' theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the "three avatars of modernism". In 1962, Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan. He was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990. Forty other Transce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara V
Mara V, is a French feature-length documentary dedicated to the Polynesian sculptor Vaiere Mara. Directed by Jonathan Bougard, it was released in 2019 in French Polynesia. Synopsis The film is an investigation into the works and history of the first modern Polynesian sculptor, Vaieretiai Mara, who signed his sculptures Mara V. A very prolific and recognized artist during his lifetime, fifteen years after his death he was almost forgotten, his works being for the most part preserved in private collections and not having been the subject of any catalog or posthumous exhibition, he remained known only through a book devoted to him by Patrick O'Reilly in 1979. The film features a number of re-enactments in which actor Romus Nanaia plays Vaiere Mara. For the scenes where he is at work and sculpts wood, coral or stone, the hands of Gilles Mateha Mara, son of the artist and also a sculptor, are filmed. The main protagonists are the sculptor's widow and children. Their combined testimo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |