Serge Murphy
Directing
Biography
Serge Murphy was born in Montréal in 1953. He has a Master's degree in Design from the Université de Paris VIII. He is a multidisciplinary artist involved in video, painting and sculpting who has exhibited throughout Canada (notably in Québec), the United States and Europe. In 1983, he produced his first video, Le voyage à Thunder Bay, in collaboration with Michèle Waquant. He then went on to produce eight more videos with Charles Guilbert and Michel Grou. In 2003, he showed Le jardin de mon curé at the Lille Museum in addition to having the Musée de Joliette organize a first retrospective of his visual art collection.
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.