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Pimiento and Les films du 3 mars present
(BULL’S EYE: A PAINTER ON THE WATCH)
A FILM BY BRUNO BOULIANNE WITH MARC SÉGUIN
• Winner of the ARTV Springboard to the World Award •
Montreal International Festival of Films on Art 2010
RESEARCHED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Bruno Boulianne • WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF Marc Séguin and Stéphane Aquin, Jimi Dams,
Tom Fernandez, Gilles Gagné, David Hunt, Denis Julien, Mary Ann Portell, Elsie Séguin, Victorianne Séguin, Eric Weinberg and
Barbara Zomlefer-Herzberg • EDITING Vincent Guignard • CAMERA Alex Margineanu, Nicolas Canniccioni • SOUND Stéphane Barsalou,
Mélanie Gauthier, Philippe Scultéty • SOUND EDITING Martin Allard, Simon Gervais • PRODUCER Orlando Arriagada • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Bruno Boulianne • A Pimiento.ca PRODUCTION • DISTRIBUTED BY Les films du 3 mars
• with music by Karkwa •
POSTER DESIGN BY ATELIER
CHINOTTO, AFTER THE WORK
CHRONIQUE D’AUTOMNE
NO. 3, 2001 © MARC SÉGUIN /
SODRAC (2010)
(BULL’S EYE: A PAINTER ON THE WATCH)
A boreal forest, in the fall. A man wearing a face mask is on the watch.
Camouflaged in the bush, he holds his gun at the ready. Is he a serial killer
or just a trophy hunter? He’s neither. He’s an artist waiting for an animal
and that elusive moment when the image for a work will come to him.
At age 40, Marc Séguin is considered one of the most talented painters
of his generation. His works have been shown around the world and
collectors impatiently await each new exhibition. A student of Molinari
and an admirer of Riopelle, Séguin paints complex, genre-crossing pieces
that never cease to amaze. This hunter of images and game is keenly
attuned to his natural surroundings, drawing inspiration for his unique
creations.
Séguin might be attached to the land and traditional craftsmanship, but
his art is very much of its time. Unhurried and deliberate, he also works in
feverish bursts, creating without compromise. At once sombre, vivid and
profound, his paintings compellingly blur the line between life and death.
Yet he’s the picture of tranquility as he collects buckets of maple sap and
tends his vegetable garden, with his four children looking on …
Bull’s Eye: A Painter on the Watch offers a rare glimpse into the world
of an artist who paints like he hunts: with patience, faith and desire. The
desire to live and create, working in Montreal and New York, and spending
time in the vast wilderness in order to reach his target: a breathtaking
image on canvas.
MARC SÉGUIN
Marc Séguin graduated with distinction from Concordia University’s Fine
Arts program. In 1998, he received the Prix Pierre-Ayot for outstanding
young artists. He is recognized as one of the most talented Canadian
painters of his generation, and his works are part of major public and
private collections in Canada and abroad. He divides his time between
Montreal and Brooklyn, and his pieces are regular fixtures on the
contemporary art circuit: New York, Miami, Chicago, Hong Kong, Madrid,
Basel, Cologne and Venice. His works appeal to different audiences:
Hommage à Rothko, for instance, appears on the cover of the Quebec
group Karkwa’s latest album, Les chemins de verre. Séguin has also
written a debut novel, La foi du braconnier, published by Leméac, which
recently won the Prix littéraire des collégiens 2010. (MARCSEGUIN.COM)
BRUNO BOULIANNE
With a background in architecture and communications, Bruno Boulianne
first got noticed on the Radio-Canada television program La Course
Europe-Asie in 1990–91. He went on to direct the documentary Un
cirque sur le fleuve, which won the Best Hope Award at the 1994 Rendezvous du cinéma québécois. Fascinated by the relationship between people
and their environment, he has made some fifteen films that have garnered
several awards, including the Grand Prize and People’s Choice Award for
Le Compteur d’oiseaux at the 2005 Festival de films de Portneuf sur
l’environnement, and the NFB Award for Best Canadian Film at the 23rd
Festival Vues d’Afrique in Montreal for Le prix de l’exode, shot in Mali. His
most recent film, the feature-length documentary Bull’s Eye: A Painter
on the Watch, recently won the ARTV Springboard to the World Award, at
the 28th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal. •
TRAILER: WWW.BULLSEYELEFILM.COM
DIRECTOR, WRITER AND ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: BRUNO BOULIANNE
PRODUCER: ORLANDO ARRIAGADA / PIMIENTO (WWW.PIMIENTO.CA)
EDITING: VINCENT GUIGNARD
CAMERA: ALEX MARGINEANU, NICOLAS CANNICCIONI
SOUND: STÉPHANE BARSALOU, MARTIN ALLARD
MUSIC: KARKWA
FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
LENGTH: 75 MINUTES
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2010
LANGUAGES: FRENCH AND ENGLISH, WITH SUBTITLES
FORMAT: HD CAM 16:9
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