Alain Gili

Alain Gili is a French writer, producer of literature and music, specialist in the African Cinéma. Wire of the French sculptor Marcel Gili, and of the painter Madeleine Prévost, it was born the February 21st 1946 with Orleans. Its fields go from the very young theater to Catalonia, in the north and the Loire Valley, of the studies of Sociology, and journalism.

It is to work in the cultural activity that he sees himself proposing following national training course ATAC-ANFIAC of organizer of Houses of the Culture, a station with the CRAC, which acts as House of the Culture of the Meeting, in March 1975. It there takes again a workshop-theater given up by Jean-Claude Pollet two years front, and creates in scene " The modern sight N°1" , composite spectacle, then " Sakuntala" according to Kâlidasa, adaptation of Carpanin Marimoutou. Among a group widened of réunionnais it founds in July 1975 the Association of the writers réunionnais, ADER.

Teaching after having been journalist with the creation of the Daily , it creates the page hebdo " there; The life culturelle" (1976-1980); there as in its life, it explores the popular culture, far from the circles, and is invested in all the cultural debates. It will create the literary review " Vois" in the Eighties. He becomes also President in 1987 of the Fondation Abel Gance, militant organization resulting from the cineclub of the Meeting, he creates there funds new of traditional cinema, the documentary one of the Indian Ocean and on broad topics of the life of the companies, national and international experimental cinema.

He meets in 1975 the artist Alain Séraphine. This one will invite it later in 1983 to take part in the foundation of association Village Titan. This cultural tool will make it possible Alain Gili in particular to complete a work initiated in Ader. It will publish in texts and sounds of works of the singer-type-setter Alain Peters of which it was the producer. It will make the promotion of the literature of Jean Albany by the means of the cassette Chante Albany which it will produce as well as biographical film carried out by Jacques Baratier in 1992.

Alain Gili creates the Festival of Film of Africa and the islands, with Village Titan and a pleiad of associations with the Meeting as in Mayotte. Village-Titan will be at the origin of the University of the Art schools of the Meeting, ILOI, and a multitude of artistic destinies.

Its poetry and its news, (Manapany Express train, 1998 ED Ader) explore without concession of clearness agreed upon for all, in a marked taste of the onirism infusing reality, the shock of modernity on the island and its perverse effects.

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