Everything began in the summer of 1995, when Gilbert Garcin, then a young retiree looking for a second life, decided to take up photography through workshops at the Rencontres d'Arles. There he discovered photomontage, which became his first source of inspiration. Since then he has built, from his own silhouette, a universal character through which he stages small, deceptively burlesque scenarios he calls "little philosophies", in the manner of Hitchcock, reminding us that it is best to "do one's best" and "know one's limits", since in the end we only ever replay old, familiar tunes.