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.

An exploration of how the once taboo art form has become socially acceptable.

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 ...

Reflects a depressing and hopeless reality by following some of the members of "la dieciocho", the s...

"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl,...

The Work completes the "quadrilogy" of South Seas seen over a twenty-year period. This film, tells t...

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Pol...

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Walt Disney Animation Studios' MOANA, as aided by the Oc...

Stories of people who regard augmenting their bodies as a way of life, whether for artistic reasons ...

Documentary based on interviews during the Birmingham Tattoo Convention in the early '90s.
A look into the world of body piercing and suspension and the people who do it.

D'Inked is a documentary about the development of laser tattoo removal technology and how it has cha...

Gombessa Expedition 4 Laurent Ballesta went to observe a gathering of thousands of groupers during ...

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, port...

In French Polynesia, there is a place where every year, thousands of groupers gather in secret follo...

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pomp...

A synaesthetic portrait made between French Polynesia and Brittany, Color-blind follows the restless...

Originally, in 2014, Laurent Ballesta had just one precise objective: to unravel the mystery of grou...
