MARTiN HAMPTON
GAUGUIN IN HIS WORDS
2010
Duration: 13’53
Directed, Filmed, Edited by Martin Hampton
Produced by Kate Vogel for Tate Media
Music by Nathaniel Robin Man and Robin Alderton of the Dead Rats Orchestra
Sound Design by Will Worsley
This short film, based entirely on Gauguin's letters from the late 1900s, explores the artist's transition from conventional family man to avant-garde pioneer and maverick leader of the post-impressionist movement
“Be an impressionist to the bitter end and be afraid of nothing!”
Paul Gauguin to Emile Bernard 1889
Watch on the Tate Channel here
Download the music without the voice here courtesy of Nathaniel Robin Man
