Charles Guilbert
Directing
Biography
Charles Guilbert was born in Montreal in 1964 and earned a master's degree in literature from the Université de Montréal. One of the many distinguished works of this multi-talented videomaker/writer/singer is Les Inquiets, a 1993 collection of stories published by Les Herbes rouges. His videos, on which he has frequently collaborated with Serge Murphy and Michel Grou, have been shown in numerous countries, including France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Mexico and Spain. Les Personnes, a video Guilbert produced alongside Nathalie Caron, was shown in Montreal's Musée d'art contemporain, at the Third Annual International Photo Biennial in Tokyo, as well as at several European exhibitions. In 2003, he presented the video Sortir de soi at the Zamek Ujazdowski Art Gallery in Warsaw. Charles Guilbert currently lives and works in Montreal.
Known For
Two friends are looking for new topics of conversation. A couple quietly bicker. A woman talks about herself as a drowing soul. Twelve characters (eleven writers and a painter) - bitter, tender, funny - beat their heads against the wall of the banality of human existence and against words...Will a great destiny ever come to the aid of their petty miseries?
Sois sage ô ma douleur (et tiens-toi plus tranquille)
This video, in a series of poetic scenes, shows men and women upon whom banality has not yet taken hold. Agile as fishers of eels, they capture the fleeting moments of daily life and transform them into extraordinary events. Storytellers in a broad sense, and without the usual pipes or rocking chairs, they sweep us off our feet in a strange waltz. Throughout, we meet a hotel keeper who takes in a sailor in distress, a man pursued by a little cloud of odour, a woman who believes that she possesses a magic ring, etc.