First-time feature filmmakers Heretu Tetahiotupa, Christophe Cordier delve into the ritual art of Marquesan tattoo, sharing its cultural and historical significance by reenacting the past and challenging the present.
Horitoshi Sensei is one of the last accomplished masters of irezumi, the art of traditional Japanese...
Rooster Teeth’s Geoff Ramsey explores the subculture of tattoos and takes a crash course from a mast...
Originally, in 2014, Laurent Ballesta had just one precise objective: to unravel the mystery of grou...
Bora Bora is the most popular destination in French Polynesia, certainly because of its lagoon, cons...
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl,...
This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Pol...
An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Walt Disney Animation Studios' MOANA, as aided by the Oc...
Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the s...
The Work completes the "quadrilogy" of South Seas seen over a twenty-year period. This film, tells t...
Kua and Teriki will soon get married. They live on the distant Tureia island in the French Polynesia...
The odyssey of a Tuamutu fisherman who sets out from his atoll-only coral island to procure fertile ...
Stories of people who regard augmenting their bodies as a way of life, whether for artistic reasons ...
For thirty years in the late-twentieth century, the people of Tahiti survived dozens of offshore nuc...
The history of surfing is like one long ride in which surfers relay the baton to each other across t...
Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during ...
In French Polynesia, there is a place where every year, thousands of groupers gather in secret follo...