Movies: Jonathan Bougard

A Heiva in Tahiti with the poet John Mairai as troop leader....

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 ...

Everyone knows Pitore in Moorea. Pitore is a sculptor, farmer, fisherman, canoe builder, fare builder, masseur and tattooist. He also makes medicines based on medicinal plants....

Discovery of the exhibition "Love and Justice" by Laetitia Ky at the Maison des Arts de Créteil, with explanations from Fanny Bertin, head of cultural programming....

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 Tah...

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....

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 th...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 go...

Tinihauarii Bonno is a famous Marquesan tattoo artist....

Pilot of an animated series dedicated to wildlife in the Rangiroa sector, an atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago....

A precocious sculptor, famous at the age of 15, Joachim Badindamana was born in Congo Brazzaville in 1950. He began by working in wood in the style of Muta Mayola and very quickly won a first sculpture prize and then a scholarship. allowing him to st...

Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing th...

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 ...

Visit to the painter and collector of primitive arts Guillaume Tel 4 f in the heart of Paris, around the statue of a Congolese pipe smoker by Grégoire Massengo, one of the fathers of modern Congolese sculpture....

A red-haired man walks in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum. He holds a large shell and hides his face with it. The shell is sculpted with a neutral face. The man walks towards the statues which adorn the Tuilleries promenade. A curious dialogue beg...