Pierre Gauvin Reluctant Monk
An intimate, filmic portrait of Pierre Gauvin, a Montreal photographer born in 1959, who has been working in the visual art milieu here for over wenty years. The film looks directly at the artist's creative world, observing a boyish, solitary man who has quietly grown to assume his singularity and difference. Out of a quiet, rather Spartan existence emerges a body of black-and-white photography that is dramatic, lush, varied and sometimes strange. Like many artists of his generation, Gauvin overcomes hardships and labours in obscurity. His perseverence arises from his steadfast decision to create.
Credits
Direction
Julie Perron
Photography
Pierre Gauvin
Roland Gauvin
Camera
Jean-Paul Gauvin
Pierre Gauvin
Jane Shearer
Mixing
Serge Boivin
Online Editing
Sylvain Cossette
Sound
Julie Perron
Pierre Gauvin
Richard Lavoie
Éric Simon
Juan Cantero
Production
Julie Perron
Les Productions des films de l'autre
Technical information
Color
Color
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
MiniDV
Documentation
Images
Keywords
Portrait, Artist, Photographer, Creation, Perseverance