Ariipaea Vahine

AriipaeaVahine is originally a poem by Henri Hiro This poem will become a play performed several times at the Grand Théâtre and in Moorea by the Pupu Arioi In 1978 the Matarau cinema unit was created at the Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture The first film in this department will be an adaptation of the play In his book Autonomous Tahiti Philippe Mazelier defines the piece as follows The theme is classic the parabola transparent as long as it was faithful to ancestral convictions Ariipaea passed from the world of men to the world of gods and Maohi culture was alive When she converted the gods stopped speaking to her and Tahitian culture died To revive it implies for Henri Hiro to fight Western culture He calls for a return to basics against the consumer society while the latter at the same time is working twice as hard