Current Projects :  

» 3 Tibetans, documentary film - 52 min.

» I don't give a Foot, short TV series programmes - 38 x 2 min.

» Rishikesh, documentary film - 20 min.

» Riders in socks , radio series programmes - 12 x 5 x 10 min.

» Nanun, short film, 30 min.

» Kibran, short film, 10 min.



Projects done : 

» Aldous in London, short film - 20 min.

» Return to Tibet, short film - 3 min.

» Holy Troubadours, music album.

Welcome to BAB.

BAB Production is a French independent multimedia production company. But because it doesn't mean anything, the best for you is to have a look at the current projects or those already produced.

Documentaries, fiction films, music album or radio program, nothing can stop us! Our only rule: a good story. If you are interested in any of them, please don't hesitate to contact us. You will find our adress, email, telephone numbers in the 'contact' heading.

But by the way, what does BAB really mean? Could it be this food that the Koreans love? Or else this door that the Arabs pass? Or maybe it refers to one of these Indian masters? Some could go as far as saying it is the sound of cupping glass that sticks out, the sign of our decongested brains. You never know...

Tibet exerts a powerful fascination to the rest of the world. We see lots of Westerners embracing Tibetan Buddhism, erecting the Dalai Lama as a spiritual star and getting involved in the political issues. That is what we know about Tibet, that is its image.

BAB Production wants something different. We want another Tibetan picture, from the other side, from inside: we want to look at the world with a Tibetan-eye view.

3 Tibetans is the story of two men and one women: a young man, a businessman born in exile, living in Paris; an ex-warrior monk, ex-diplomat who now is retired in London and liaises between the Tibetan government in exile and the Chinese Authorities in Tibet; finally a nomad, a mother who maintains the traditional ways at the extreme limits of life on the high Tibetan Plateau.

Together they reflect the destiny of a people. By looking at their daily life we understand more about the spiritual world of Tibet as they mirror our own materialistic society. It is about the impact of cultures, one upon the other, and how we are adapting Tibetan ways as Tibet is adapting to ours.

» 3 Tibetans proposal

Football on TV is a very serious matter. This can't go on any longer! Fortunately for the world, I don't give a foot popped up from our crazy minds. A simple and efficient concept, like any tasty cocktail: you take a short programme of 2 minutes to broadcast weekly, you add anonymous people caught in the street and you make them talk about the next match happening locally. Mix it up a lot and show it to a 15-49 year old audience, who likes sport, humour and local news. And it works!

Our authors, Yann Lambart and Gilles Blaize, supported by Laurent Merzoug, the mad guy of the graphic palette, have got everything going for them: they are handsome, intelligent, talented and have a good knowledge of football. But above all, they have this sheer madness which will allow them, on every day of the football league, to chase out the chap in a country's town, wherever he hides in male fumes of a rugby bar, in the more elegant one of a gay club, forgotten in the bottom of a port or while having a lunch in a gastronomic restaurant. With a well-balanced mixture of insolence, high-jacked interviews and an editing style known as 'editing with an axe', these crooks will deliver each time two minutes of crazy interviews in the street where they will face the round-ball aficionados and those who don't 'give a foot'. On your screen soon...

» French Pilote PSG/Metz (needs flash player 8)

Rishikesh takes us on board for a journey into Hinduism. Living in an ashram to study yoga with Brahmans, we get to understand day after day the ritualistic meaning of the Ganges' slow pace. Among the back-packers who come here on the path of the hippies, among the saddhus, these wandering ascetics who worship the god Siva, among the cows and the monkeys who have got the right to take our peanuts, we start to believe at the sacred face of the world. A dangerous film, isn't it?

On the road. Yann Lambart is a journalist. He landed recently after playing at globe-trotters for eight months, from New-Zealand to India, via Australia, Indonesia and Thailand. Not a bad fate. But since then, trips are titillating him. He can't keep still! At BAB, since we are cool, we found a way to calm him: producing, with Gilles Blaize, a series of radio programmes on the subject. But with one rule: you don't need to go to the country to talk about it...

» French Pilote South Korea #1

Following him for a day through the heart of the city, we tell you the story of Aldous in London. You hear his way of looking at things and see the streets metamorphosing in ways you don’t expect. These visual transformations are accompanied by the music of the English composer Dryden Hawkins.

What is this film? A travelogue, an animated movie? It is a straight descent into the world of the painter, where the reality of London, its bobbies, cabs and pubs, meets the power of his imagination…

» Aldous In London Film (needs flash player 8)

50 years later , this 3 minute film presents a kaleidoscope of Tibetan identity, in Tibet and in exile. Following the music of Chris Michell and Bhagdro, with no dialogue nor comments, 'Return to Tibet', in association with Tibet Films, is the first step of BAB Production into the rich, moving, colourful culture of the Tibetans, where you can feel and share its sufferings... and its hopes.

» Retour au Tibet Film (needs flash player 8)

Kashina and KAB went to North India and Nepal to try out yogis and down some thalis. On the way, characters passed by, stopped, then sang, played, and beat, and blowed or rubbed, then taught, and also thanked. A small travelogue to introduce them to you:

'Krishna Duhn is a yogi apprentice. We met him in Rishikesh, India, during autumn 2001. He was teaching yoga on the banks of the Ganges, where the sacred river still clear and frozen, emerges from the Himalayan foothills. Krishna is also a Brahman, a member of the priest’s caste, the purest of the Hindu tradition. He knows lots of sacred chants called mantras, prayers sung to the glory of the Indian Gods: Siva, Ganeshi, Lakshi, Pavarti and company. There are some of these mantras, a couple on this album, that we invite you to listen to. They were recorded on a roof of an ashram, a yogi school, where one can meditate or quietly eat some peanuts, unless monkeys come to pinch them from you. Aum Nama Siva Ye…'

'The Maitri Pariwar aren’t easy to find. Kathmandu is a labyrinth town, made of busy streets, dark cul-de-sac, eventually running into an unlikely temple, itself a starting point to other places. The best thing to do is to listen. Around 6 p.m., when the shops’ shutters are closing, there comes from the heart of the Nepalese capital the sound of percussion and a conch. It comes from a small workshop with no door, in the corner of a forgotten square except for its name: Maitri Pariwar. This is where, under the same patronymic, that a band of musicians gathers together every evening after their ‘regular’ jobs to play hours of music inspired by Sufism, Hinduism or Buddhism. Tablas and a harmonium lead their voices in celebrating the Gods. And like us, every pair of eyes and ears that pass by here have had the honour to sit on this square in front of them and then among them. The results are 5 tracks on this disc, recorded ‘live’ on a night in autumn 2001. Namasté!'

'"Men with bird’s heads, spirits of the winds, mists and waters”. In the Hindu mythology this is the Gandharvas’ origin. In the mortal world, they form a caste, the musicians’ one. Not the purest, neither the worst, these born troubadours are in the middle of Nepalese society. Until lately they used to bring news from towns to villages like genuine itinerant newspapers, nowadays they carry on to offer their services at weddings, village fairs or restaurants for tourists. Whether in Kathmandu or Pokara you will always bump into these wandering players, ready to dance, sing and have a party. Of course, we were apprehended by them one day during autumn 2001. We found ourselves at their HQ for an hour of interviews. Then, like any good hosts, they gave us a private gig. From this privilege, we kept 3 tracks which are on this album. Songs that talk about Gods, love and pretty girls. Happy Gandharvas!'

» Track#5-MaitriPariwar