Gilbert Garcin: Anything Could Happen...

France
2015
fr
en
52'

Direction: Ralf Kämpfe

Retired, Gilbert Garcin photographs in his garden shed. His world is appealing, he is internationally recognized: a fast-track fairy tale to prove that the world of art is not a closed shop. Garcin is no naïve painter, but a life far from art studies has certainly preserved in him a certain freshness. Nonetheless, we can place him between Teun Hocks and Chema Madoz, photographers with surrealist humour. He prefers to point to Buster Keaton, and his photographic double also evokes Monsieur Hulot. Post-retirement, anything could happen!

Gilbert Garcin: Anything Could Happen...

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Synopsis

Retired, Gilbert Garcin photographs in his garden shed. His world is appealing, he is internationally recognized: a fast-track fairy tale to prove that the world of art is not a closed shop. Garcin is no naïve painter, but a life far from art studies has certainly preserved in him a certain freshness. Nonetheless, we can place him between Teun Hocks and Chema Madoz, photographers with surrealist humour. He prefers to point to Buster Keaton, and his photographic double also evokes Monsieur Hulot. Post-retirement, anything could happen!

What you will find in this film

Photomontages sans software • To create cosmic sketches on a corner of the table • To become a photographer at 65 • To create from an idea

Keywords

Black & White Studio photography Analogue photogaphy The artist inspiration Photomontage Self-portrait

You really must have something to say to devote 30 hours to handling pieces of cardboard!

Gilbert Garcin

Film chapters

summary 02:00 Who is Gilbert Garcin?

summary 10:00 Exhibition in Rennes

summary 14:00 The studio

summary 26:00 Craftsmanship and Art

summary 32:00 Madame Garcin

summary 37:00 A photographer apart... and in his own right.

summary 45:00 Arles retrospective

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Further exploration

PHOTO POCHE GILBERT GARCIN, Actes Sud, 2016
LORSQUE LE VENT VIENDRA, Filigranes, 2013
FAIRE DE SON MIEUX, Filigranes, 2013
MISTER G. : 18 ANS DE PHOTOGRAPHIE, Filigranes, 2011
MISTER G. Filigranes, 2009
TOUT PEUT ARRIVER, Filigranes, 2007
LE TEMOIN, Filigranes, 2005
SIMULACRES, Filigranes, 2002
LA VIE EST UN THEATRE, Filigranes, 1999

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