" After studying Fine Arts, Gustave de Pavant turned to cinema, a field that matched the diversity of his interests, enabling him to combine work on image, sound and writing. He has made a number of experimental short films, giving metaphysical questions a perceptive language - both visual and sonic. The themes running through Soudain (Suddenly), Occulus Imaginationis and Terminus hier (Terminus yesterday) include history, memory, suffering and consolation. His aesthetic, both in his photographic series and his films, is strongly inspired by phenomenology, particularly Merleau-Ponty's writings on the visible. One of the salient aspects of his work is the tension he creates between the near and the far, plunging us into a universe that is both intimate and yet elusive. His works, bordering on the elegiac, are situated at the crossroads of philosophical meditation and aesthetic research. They are both an invitation to contemplation and a sometimes painful interrogation of our world. " - dr. mélanie weill, philosopher and dancer