Mara V

	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]
	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]
picture info	Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian denomination that is an outgrowth of the Bible Student movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in the nineteenth century. The denomination is nontrinitarian, millenarian, and restorationist. Russell co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881 to organize and print the movement's publications. A Watch Tower Society presidency dispute (1917), leadership dispute after Russell's death resulted in several groups breaking away, with Joseph Franklin Rutherford retaining control of the Watch Tower Society and its properties. Rutherford made significant organizational and doctrinal changes, including adoption of the name ''Jehovah's witnesses'' in 1931 to distinguish the group from other Bible Student groups and symbolize a break with the legacy of Charles Taze Russell#Theology and teachings, Russell's traditions. In , Jehovah's Witnesses reported a peak membership of approximately worldwide. Jehovah's Witnesses are known for their evangeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2019 Films 2019 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming. '' Avengers: Endgame'' was the year's highest grossing film and became the highest-grossing film of all-time until '' Avatar'' regained the top spot in 2021. United Artists celebrated its 100th anniversary. Evaluation of the year In his article highlighting the best movies of 2019, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "It's the year of apocalyptic cinema of the highest order, the year in which three of our best filmmakers have responded with vast ambition, invention, and inspiration to the crises at hand, including the threats to American democracy, the catastrophic menaces arising from global warming, the corrosive cruelty of ethnic hatreds and nationalist prejudices, and the poisonous overconcentration of money and power. At the same time, it's a yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tahiti Nui Television Tahiti Nui TV (), abbreviated as TNTV, is a French Polynesian French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the South Pacific Ocean. The total land area of French Po ... television channel. It was launched on and is in both the French and Tahitian languages. Programming See: '' List of programs broadcast by Tahiti Nui Television'' TNTV airs three news providing TV shows, '' Te ve'a'', ''The Journal'' and '' Manihini''. References External links TNTV Replay See also List of programs broadcast by Tahiti Nui Television Mass media in French Polynesia Television networks in France Companies of French Polynesia {{Oceania-tv-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jean Guiart Jean Guiart (22 July 1924 - 4 August 2019) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist specializing in Melanesia. From 1972 to 1982 he was president of the Société des Océanistes. Background Guiart was born in Lyon to a long line of doctors and medical researchers. He was the son of the parasitologist Jules Guiart. He initially studied at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris, before switching to study ethnology at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). Age 15 when WWII started, he played a small role in the French Resistance. In 1944 after World War II he was employed by the Musée de l'Homme to help inventory its collection. In 1945 he joined the ''Société des Océanistes''. In 1947 he graduated with a diploma in Oceanic languages from the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes and moved to New Caledonia to work for the French Institute of Oceania. He completed a diploma in colonial ethnology from the Research Institute for Development and then did f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]