Pierre Gauvreau

A short film made in 1987 on the occasion of Serge Lemoyne's exhibition "Station supplémentaire. Hommage aux artistes vivants". The exhibition paid homage to several figures of the contemporary art scene whom the painter named as influences : Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Ulysse Comtois, Armand Vaillancourt, COZIC, Yves Gaucher, François Sullivan, Guido Molinari, Claude Tousignant and "the unknown artists".

Two social outcasts in 19th century Eastern Europe, Alexandre and Ulysse, become friends and settle down to live alone on the edge of a marsh that is reputedly haunted by demons, monsters and goblins. These two men have been outcasts all their lives. Alexandre was raised in a nomad family that traveled from town to town, being rejected by the people of his homeland. Due to his physical abnormalities, Ulysse has always been pushed aside ever since his childhood. When a strange murder is committed in a nearby village, the peasants turn their suspicions on Alexandre and Ulysse, because they are different. In the eyes of the villagers, they are demons that must be hunted, burned and killed.