Frédéric Bruly Bouabré Luniversaliste (2010)

Filmed in 2009 in his house at his little drawing table Frédéric Bruly Bouabré allows us to get as close as possible to the creative act Methodical observation of clouds spots on an orange or a cola nut illustration of tales and legends Bouabrés work is encyclopaedic Born of a celestial vision that occurred in Dakar on March 11 1948 which he says illuminated his life dedicated from then on to the teaching of divine truths communicated to him in dreams The creations of this Ivorian poet designer storyteller thinker and prophet include an ingenious alphabet developed from his language Bété This system made up of 449 pictograms to which syllables correspond allows him to record the languages of the whole world