The gift of storytelling
Dominic Gauthier, a true storyteller, poses with art from the Suppression, the comic book he hopes to launch before Christmas. — photo Francis Racine
With a nostalgia filled voice, Gauthier then goes on to explain how, as all of his friends grew older, the stories they told seemed to stop. “They would talk of girls and work,” he explained. “But there I was, still thinking of different stories. I would take walks and just come up with all these little ideas.” Yet the Cornwall native found a way to exploit his gift. Packing his suitcase, he made his way to Niagara Falls, where he studied filmand scriptwriting. “It was a great experience,” he recalled. During his time there, he wrote several different scripts. “Nearly every idea I had was put on paper,” he added. “That’s when I came up with a script for something called
Suppression.” The story revolves around events happening after world peace is finally attained. “Although we’d all love to attain world peace, we often don’t really think about what that would cause,” remarked Gauthier. The happening creates overpopulation on Earth.This leads an organisation, calling itself Unknown, to create an assassination system which, in essence, brings balance to the residents of Earth. But everything changes when the system goes haywire. “It’s a pretty dark story,” admitted the storyteller. The wheels were then set in motion to make the story into a motion picture. “We
had actors and we filmed a good portion of it,” said Gauthier. “But we never managed to finish it. I took it pretty hard.” Fast forward some time, the Cornwall native became what he calls a struggling artist. “I was living in Toronto, broke,” he admitted. “I was in a small, overpriced apartment. I knew I had to do something.” The storyteller therefore decided to do something drastic: come back to his roots. “Imovedback toCornwall,” he recalled. As life went on, the stories were still appearing in his mind and he constantly wrote. “I have four different projects that I want to pursue in the future,” announced Gauthier. His most important one is located right in front of him, on his kitchen table. A poster
FRANCIS RACINE francis.racine@eap.on.ca
In Dominic Gauthier’s study is a bookshelf, neatly organized. It holds different stories and is truly an extension of the imaginative man. He’s a storyteller, a man of many stories. His mind has always produced these stories, the product of a vivid imagination. “When I was younger, my friends and I would always create stories of superheroes,” he said, during an interview in his Cornwall home. “We were inspired by Wolverine, Captain American and their likes. Yet, after a while, we would create our own superheroes.”
Le Journal, Cornwall
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Le mercredi 4 mai 2016
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