Mathieu Tavernier

Mathieu Tavernier was born in the west of the island 31 years ago this year. "Marmay la kour", "son of the city", pampered in a traditional Creole environment, football and bicycle enthusiast, it is through the books offered to him by his mother, a nanny in a well-to-do family, that he discovers "the world outside" and allows himself to be taken on board towards other worlds of images and stories.

Since childhood, Mathieu has been drawing and meticulously reproducing what he sees. After studying cooking at the Plateau-Caillou hotel school, he followed a multimedia and 3D animation course at the ILOI for 18 months (ETICS training) and decided to pursue a 3-year directing course at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in Paris. His artistic sensitivity develops and he expresses himself through painting and sculpture. His drawings also evolved and were no longer faithful reproductions, but reinterpretations of reality, creations nourished by Western, African and Reunionese references.

Back on the island at the age of 26, Mathieu worked as a lay out artist (2D, 3D) on the animated feature film Adama produced by the Pipangaï studio in Le Port and on the animated series Cairo's Tales produced by Gao Shan Pictures. At the same time, he works with the Zolizimaz association and produces reports on the island's inhabitants and their way of life (Rakont anou). He also works in schools in the east of the island to introduce video and animated film.

Dann zardin Pépé, is his first creative documentary, which he has been imagining for several years, matured at the DOC OI association's writing residency and is currently being developed with Jean-Marie Gigon (SaNoSi Production) and Arnauld Boulard (Gao Shan Pictures) with the support of France Télévisions - Réunion 1ère.