Interview Raphaël Mamet - Atelier de cerf - Volant - Sub Spanish and English

I came to the first and the second festival (last year) And I said to Lucile: we are in an area close to the sea called Festival of the Gulls and there is no seagulls So I said I would bring the seagulls I am in love with kites from ... ... I think it was my grandfather, who forwarded me this love First, the love to the wire and the twine the sewing, the wind -I do not-know- the birds... These are all passions for me And my father played with kites, but he did not manufactured them, he bought them as I had not no money to buy kites, I have always wanted to make them I've always liked making kites. I am very hands-made guy, I love making things I started with classic French kites and I bought books about kites until I discovered Indian kites, which were a revelation to me This kind of kite has a very particular way of flying It is a flat kite when there is no wind As soon there is wind, it is forming a "V", and has a sail than makes it goes very very fast going very fast in the direction you want If we drop the wire, it becomes plain again and begins to spin like a dead leaf and when it's, for example like this, resumed the flight and it goes again When it's nears to the ground, you have to drop some string and it returns to the other direction You are playing with the wind. It is really a collaboration of three: the wind, the person and the object. It's great!