CV
Awards & distinctions
2010 - Winner Institut français, Programme Hors les Murs Residency Nouvelles Images, Montréal, Québec, Canada: Je suis un indien Pontiac
2007 - Best of Independent Exposure, San Francisco, CA, USA: Le saut dans le vide (The Leap Into the Void)
2002 - Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, Experimental Shorts Competition, Chicago, Illinois, USA: We Cannot Exhibit It
- Best Musical and Audience Choice Awards, Thaw, Festival of Film Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema and Culture, Iowa City, Iowa, USA: Strong Enough
- Highlight Selection, Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, USA: Cul en l'air (My Levitating Butt)
2000 - Audience Award, Best New Media, Festival du Cinema Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada: Broom Ballet
1999 - Special Mention, Videoarcheology, Paris, France / Sofia, Bulgaria: Head Egg
-Silver Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Award Competition, New Visions Video, San Francisco, USA: Workman
1998 - Third Prize Experimental, NAP Video Festival, New Arts Program, Lehigh Valley & Berks, Pennsylvania, USA: Front Room
1997 - Prix DRAC Auvergne (French Ministry of Culture), Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France: C'est le veau qui bêle (The Bleating Calf)
-Third Prize Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany : Front Room
1996 - Highlight Selection, Videonale 7, Bonn, Germany: C'est le veau qui bêle (The Bleating Calf)
Selected screenings, festivals, exhibitions:
2013
• FID, Festival International de Cinema, Marseille, France
• Exploding Cinema, Stubnitz Show, London, UK
2012
• Project Green , organized by Nomad Films , Althinsalen Theater at Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• ExperiMENTAL, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Nothern Ireland, UK
2011
• 23rd Onion City Film and Video Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• PrideFest, Milwaukee LGBT Film & Video Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2010
• "Extra Ordinary Men: Videos by Pierre Yves Clouin," curated by Stefan St-Laurent, Art Star Biennale, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• “The Nomad Project," Access & Paradox Open Art Fair, Paris, France / Souvenirs From the Earth (TV), France Germany
• Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada
• Urban Research, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Director Lounge Contemporary Art and Media, Berlin, Germany
2009
• Bref, a special video series to celebrate the magaziné’s 20th anniversary, Paris, France
• “Bonbon," Festival International du court mètrage de Lille, Lille, France
• Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• MusicVideoArt 4, Heure Exquise! Centre International Pour Les Arts Vidéo, Mons-en-Baroeul, France
• Apexart program at the Pocket Film Festival, Forum des Images, Paris, France
• 20th anniversary program of the Hamburg LGBT Film Festival, 25th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
• Les Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2008
• "Honey Bunny," program curated by Margie Schnibbe & Sam Zimmerman, Monkey Town, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Les Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid, Centre Pompidou / Le Cinema L’Entrepôt, Paris, France
• Instants Videos,La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France / MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, France
• 10ème Rencontres Cinema et Video à Nice, Nice, France
• Apexart Public program, Apexart, New York City, New York, USA
• "Heure Exquise Collection", 21st Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, Texas, USA
• Best of Independent Exposure 2007 Edition, selected by Hal Hartley, Caroline Collective, Houston , Texas, USA
• Tabor Film Festival, Desinic, Croatia
• Artist’s Short Film Evening, Black Box Belfast, by Catalyst Arts Belfast, Nothern Ireland, UK
• MusicvideoArt 3, Heure Exquise, Centre International Pour Les Arts Vidéo, Maison Folie du Fort de Mons, Mons-en-Baroeul, France
• Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
• "Let It Be," program curated by Akram Zaatari, Home Works IV, A Forum on Cultural Practices, Beyrouth, Lebanon
• Videolab Session, Electrochoc Festival, Bourgoin Jallieu, France
2007
• Retrospectiva 95, São Paulo Festival do Minuto, Centro Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Best of Independent Exposure 2007 Edition, selected by Hal Hartley, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
• Trunk, The Nordic Video Art Festival, Ostersund, Sweden
• Raw, curated by Joshua Katcher, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Mix Brasil, Cinesc São Paulo, Usina do Gasometro Porto Allegre, Cine Palacio Rio de Janeiro, Teatro de Caixa, Brasilia, Brasil
• Mind Over Matter 2007, Independent Exposure, Outnorth, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
• "Mai de l'art vidéo, un art contemporain," Reims, France
• Mind Over Matter 2007, Independent Exposure, Central Cinema, Seattle, Washington / Axiom Theatre, Houston, Texas / 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
• Reflets du cinéma, "Experiencing limits, experimental film and video art," Laval, France
•"Moving Images" a program presented by the Media Art Lab Center for Art and Culture, Moscow, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow,, Russia
2006
• “actions, réactions,” Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
• “sexperimental," Cinema du Monde, Paris, France
• 19th Mix NYC, New York City, USA
• Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
• Back Up Festival - New Media in Film, Weimar, Germany
• 22. International Kurz Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
• Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowas City, Iowa, USA
• "Best of 20 Years of Vidéoformes," Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Morocco
2005
• “Trouble,“ program curated by Jurgen Kittel, programming director of the Hamburg International FilmFestival, at the Festival Tout Courts : Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence, France.
• Transpédégouinesroll, Forum des Images, Paris France
• “Yo, la camera,“ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• MuHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, at Filmmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
• 1st Macadamia Video Festival, Alliance Française of Buenos Aires & MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Argentina
• Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
•“corps à corps," Carte blanche à Heure Exquise!, Ecole des Arts de Liège, Belgium
• San Francisco Cinematheque presents “We Cannot Exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin," curated by Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
• MIX 18, New York City, USA
• “Fetish,” London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute, National Film Theatre, London, UK
• Best of Palmares Vidéoformes, Video & New Media in Contemporary Art, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• “A Sense of Site” curated by Irina Leimbacher, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, USA
2004
• MIX Brazil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, & Brasilia, Brazil
• “Trans-Pédé-Gouine is Back,” Forum des Images, Paris, France
• “ARTRONICA 2004,” 2nd Electronic Arts Festival of Bogota, organized by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy, Bogota, Colombia
• “autoportraits - tambour electronique,“ Station Arts Electroniques, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France
• Cinematexas 04, Austin, Texas, USA
• “Animal Show,Part 2: Four legs vs. More Legs,”curated by Ben Russell, Magic Lantern, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
• Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
• Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
• "Art is a Tart," British Film Institute, London, UK
• “Corps intime,” Le Parvis Centre d’art contemporain, Tarbes, France
2003
• Microwave International Media Art Festival 03, international video program curated by Ip Yuk Yiu, Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong, China
• “Body on Screen,” curated by Erin Brannigan, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
• Independent Exposure, “Edition Française 2003,” presented by Microcinema International: The Modern Zoo, Portland, Oregon / 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
• Vue sur court, short film festival, La Rochelle, France
• Cinematexas 03, Austin, Texas, USA
• Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA
• MIX NYC 17, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, NY,USA
• 20th World Wide Video Festival, and “Vanavond,” VPRO Television: Strong Enough, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• “Undermining the Overview,” SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Playtime Festival, “Videomotion” presented by Heure Exquise!, Museum Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa
• “Dirges and Sturgeons,” curated by Astria Suparak for Anthology Film Archives, New York, spring 2003 tour including: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
• “Phénomène de croissance," Musée d’Art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Asq, France
2002
• “Video and Artistic Actionism,” curated by Olga Shishko of the Moscow MediaArtLab for the screening series “NonStopVideo” at PRO ARTE Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• “From Mix With Love: Speculation, Reverie & Utopia,” 16th MIX NYC sneak preview, Ocularis, Galapagos Art & Performance Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• “Performance and Video in Contemporary Art,” curated by Olga Shishko of the Moscow MediaArtLab for the screening series “NonStopVideo” at PRO ARTE Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Thessaloniki Film Festval, “Orgasmic Cinema” program presented by Athina Rachel Tsangari & Spencer Parsons of Cinematexas, Thessaloniki, Greece
• “Adolescent Boys, And Living Rooms,” curated by Astria Suparak, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
• 38th Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, USA
• 6th Unimovie, Pescara, Italy
• Outfest 2002, Los Angeles, California, USA
• MIX Festival Highlights, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada
• 26th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, California, USA
• 12th International Video Festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany
• 6th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
• Thaw 02 Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
• Medienkunstfest, organized by the French Cultural Center and Muthesius-Hochschule, Kiel, Germany
• NAP Biennial Video Festival, New Arts Program, Pennsylvania. Northeastern US tour:
- Hunterdown Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, New York
- Marywood University Art Galleries, Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• “Dirges and Sturgeons,” curated by Astria Suparak. US tour (includes): Pitzer College Cinematheque, Claremont, California; Santa Barbara Community College, Santa Barbara, California; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesotta; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Illinois State University Cinema Society, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois; Massachusetts College of Art,Boston, Massachusetts
• Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
• “Cheap,” curated by Marc Siegel, Podewil Center for the Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Germany
• Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2001
• “Vidéo/Je vois,” Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, program presented by the French Institute celebrating 15 years of French video art, Bilbao, Spain
• 3ème Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Cinéma La Clef, Paris, France
• Corps Accords, Play On2, Le cinematographe, Nantes, France
• 9th Biennial of Moving Images, St. Gervais Geneva, Switzerland
• Ficfa, Moncton, NB, Canada
• 7th Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• “Dirges and Sturgeons,” curated by Astria Suparak, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, New York, USA
• 13th Videobrasil Electronic Art International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
• 13th Onion City Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• NAP Biennial Video Festival, New Arts Program, Lehigh Valley and Berks, Pennsylvania. Screening Philadelphia, New York City, and tour
• Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Moscow International Film Festival, program presented by Heure Exquise!, Moscow, Russia
• Thaw 01 Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
• Cinematexas 01, Austin, TX, USA
• 8eme Festival International d'Art Video de Casablanca, Casablanca, Marocco
• ART 32 Basel, VideoGallery, Basel, Switerzland
• New Festival, New York City, NY, USA
• fiav 2001, galerie Esca, Nîmes, France and Museo d'Arte Moderna, Tanger, Marocco
• “Short, Quiet and Disturbing: On the Recent Work of Pierre Yves Clouin and Steve Reinke,” paper and screening presented by Ger J.Z. Zielinski, 2001 Conference of the Film Studies Association of Canada, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada
• Pandæmonium Bienniale of Moving Images, Lux Centre for Film, Video and Digital Arts, London, UK
• Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, France, Germany
• Sundance Film Festival, Frontier Shorts Program, Park City, Utah, USA
2000
• Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
• MIX 2000, New York City, New York, USA
• backup 2.0 - festival. film in new media, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
• 13èmes Instants Vidéo, Rencontres Internationales de Manosque, Manosque, France
• "AIR RAIDS,” L.A. Freewaves, 7th Festival of Experimental Media, Los Angeles,
California, USA
• Festival des cinemas diddérents, La Clef, Paris, France
• 45th Murphy's Cork Film Festival, Cork City, Ireland
• ImageOut, Rochester, New York, USA
• Fifth International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
• 14e Festival International de Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
• Retina 2000, Sellye and Budapest, Hungary
• “NEXT SEX - Sex in the Age of its Procreative Superfluousness,” Ars Electronica 2000, Ars Electronica Center, Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria
• “Things We Do,” Fifth Annual OutArt Exhibition, Arthouse Multimedia Centre for the Arts, Dublin,Ireland
• 5th Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, USA
• Inside Out, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Impakt 2000, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Thaw 00, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
• “Fade Out: New Video Part Two,” Chicago Filmmakers Exhibition Series, presented by Patrick Friel, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1999
• Cosa Vedere, Biennial, Rome, Italy
• “International Eclectic,” exhibition curated by Dennis Bellone, Walden Gallery,New York City, New York, USA
• “Switch 2,” presented by Claire Doutriaux and Paul Ouazan, L’Atelier de la Sept ARTE, France-Germany, at Les Instants Vidéo de Manosque, Manosque, France
• MiX Brasil 99, Museum of Modern Art, installation at the Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo. Tour: Porto Alegre and Recife, Brazil
• Videoarchaeology, at the Centre Culturel Français, American Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Reel Affirmations 9, Washington, D.C., USA
• ImageOut, Rochester, New York, USA
• 4th Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, USA
• Fourfth International, Festival New Film, Split, Croatia
• Festivale Vid@rte, Mexico City, Mexico
• “Dragged Out, A Studied Glance at Current Radical Drag,” program curated by Ger J.Z. Zielinski, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, California, USA
• 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards Competition: New Visions - Video, San Francisco FilmSociety, San Francisco, California, USA
• Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Museum of Modern Art at Oxford, screening series around an exhibition on Gustav Metzger, Oxford, UK
• offline@online, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia. (Guest Artist)
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
- The Kitchen Center for Video, Music and Dance, New York City, New York
1998
• Rencontres Vidéo Art Plastique, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair, France
• The International Festival of New Film in Split, Split, Croatia
• Pervoplanet, Turku, Finland
• Pandæmonium Festival, The Lux Centre for Film, Video + New Media, London, UK
• Central Florida Film & Video Festival, Frameworks Alliance, Orlando, Florida, USA
• “All Over the Map,” L.A. Freewaves Celebration of Independent Video and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Rencontres Arts Electroniques, Université de Rennes 2, Rennes, France
• Taos Talking Picture Festival, Taos, New Mexico, USA
• 3th Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, USA
• N.A.P. Video Festival ‘98, New Arts Program, Lehigh Valley & Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
- Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
- TZ’Art & Co. Gallery, New York City, New York.
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
• “Independant Exposure: All-Erotic,” Blackchair Productions, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Thaw 98, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
• Microcinema 98, Baltimore, MA, USA
• InVideo, Milan, Italy
• Transmediale 98, 11th VideoFest, Berlin, Germany
• A Queer Body of Film, The Mardi Gras Film Festival, Queer Screen, Sydney, Australia
• Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
• Blowing Bubbles, V Edizione, Videomakers contro l’AIDS, Bologna, Italy
• “Queer Discord - Dissenting Voices in Queer Culture,” curated by Sarah Turner, The Lux Centre for Film, Video + New Media, London, UK
• Reeling ‘97, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• ostranenie 97 - The International Electronic Media Forum, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, Germany
• up-and-coming Film Festival Hannover, Hannover, Germany
• Festival International du Film Indépendant, Brussels, Belgium
• Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany (Third Prize: “Front Room”)
• La Cappelletta d’Oro, Concorso Internazionale Video - 13a edizione, Alassio, Italy
• Images Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada
• International Forum of Audiovisual and Multimedia Art,Bandits Mages, Bourges, France
• The New Festival, New York Film Academy, New York City, USA
• European Media Art Festival 1997, Osnabrück, Germany
• 24th Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
• 12èmes Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• NAP Video Festival ‘97, New Arts Program, Lehigh Valley & Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
- Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
- TZ’Art & Co. Gallery, New York City, New York
• London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute, National Film Theatre, London, UK
• Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
1996
• 3ème Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris, L’Entrepôt, Paris, France
• MIX 96, New York City, USA
• Third International Festival of Audiovisual Culture, New Visions, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Videonale 7, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
• 12th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
• Edinburgh’s 11th Fringe Film and Video Festival, Scotland, UK
1995
• Festival do Minuto, São Paulo, Brazil
1994
• Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France