UNDER THE MIRABEAU BRIDGE
(SOUS LE PONT MARIBEAU )

Elie Rajaonarison
France 1980 | 15 Min. | DCP, EN subs

Thu, 29-May-25 02:00 PM
Q&A with:
Daniel Deshays, Emmanuelle Baude, Jean-Noël Cristiani

In Guil­laume Apol­li­naire’s poem, two visions col­lide: the image of France learned in Mada­gas­car and the real­i­ty later expe­ri­enced in the former metrop­o­lis. For a for­eign­er, adapt­ing to French life means over­com­ing count­less dif­fi­cul­ties. For a Mala­gasy, the oblig­a­tory tran­si­tion from oral to writ­ten cul­ture is one of the worst.

Work­shop: Doc­u­men­tary film-making, Paris

Élie Rajaonar­i­son (died 11. 27. 2010) was a poet, uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor and senior civil ser­vant from Mada­gas­car. Élie Rajaonar­i­son is con­sid­ered a pio­neer of modern Mala­gasy poetry. His vol­umes of poetry have earned him inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion and have been trans­lat­ed into French and Eng­lish. He has also con­tributed to the devel­op­ment of the per­form­ing arts in Madagascar.