Lunch
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Lunch": 2008 Heure Exquise Collection at the Austin GLIFF, Austin, Texas, USA 2003 Vinokino, Turku, Finland, London Lesbian and Gay film Festival, LBFI, London, UK Shadow on the Wall: Short Film Review 2003 THERE about There, Model, Lunch. Selected short films shown at the British Film Institute's 17th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2-16 April 2003 by Rich Cline LUNCH dir-scr Pierre Yves Clouin • 02/Fr 7m * This self-consciously arty short obviously has a point but I missed it. It opens with a black and white crawl down a filthy tunnel lined with rubbish, then it cuts to colour images of a bunch of muscly men standing in a group, dancing, watching something. The camera caresses their bare chests, they flash their bums at each other, it goes on and on. Then we see the rubbish again. Oh and along the way we catch a glimpse of a butterfly sitting on a toe ... or perhaps another appendage. What it's about--and what the title means--is anyone's guess. 8.Mar.03 llgff
date: 2002-07-01
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

We Cannot Exhibit It
description: « Soon after I heard a general shout, with frequent repetitions of words ‘Peplom Selan’, and I felt numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ase myself with making water ; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonishment of the people... » Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift. « Peu après j’ai entendu un cri général, mèlé de fréquentes répétitions des mots ‘Peplom Selan’, et j’ai senti sur mon côté gauche un grand nombre de gens qui relâchaient les cordes à tel point que je pus me retourner sur mon côté droit et me soulager ainsi la vessie ; ce que je fis abondamment, au grand étonnement de ces gens... » Les voyages de Gulliver, Jonathan Swift. Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival 2002, Experimental Shorts Competition, Chicago, Illinois, USA exhibitions and screenings of "We Cannot Exhibit It": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2004 Nashville Film Festival, Nashville, Tennesee, USA Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA 2003 MIX NYC 17, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, New York, USA Cinematexas 03, Austin, Texas, USA IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA “Phenomenes de croissance” Musée d’art Moderne Lille Metropole, Lille, France 2002 38th Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL, USA Extra Ordinary Men Pierre Yves Clouin est un vidéaste excentrique et curieux, et probablement le premier vidéaste avec lequel j’ai travaillé, autour de 1995. Je l’ai rencontré pour la première fois en personne à Paris, sa ville, il y a une dizaine d’années, alors que j’effectuais des recherches à titre de commissaire; il m’a montré un aspect de la ville que peu de jeunes commissaires ont la chance de v…
date: 2002-05-21
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

A Perfect Day
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page You’re going to reap just what you sow Tu récolteras ce que tu sèmes exhibitions and screenings of "A Perfect Day": 2003 Inside Out, Toronto, Canada Thaw03, Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media,University of Iowa's Institute for Cinema & Culture in Iowa City, Iowa,USA 2002 Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, Austin, Texas, USA “From Mix with Love,” Galapagos Art and Perfomance Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
date: 2002-04-12
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: London

Le château
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page « Forgive me, gentlemen,I’m sorry to tell you that I have no time to see you at present. I do apologize, but I have to go out on urgent business and must leave the building at once. You have seen for yourselves how long I have been held up by my last caller. » The Trial, Franz Kafka « Excusez-moi, Messieurs, je le regrette beaucoup, je n’ai pas le temps de vous recevoir en ce moment. Je vous en demande pardon, mais j’ai à règler en ville des affaires de la dernière urgence et je suis obligé de partir sur le champ. Vous avez vu vous-mêmes combien je viens d’être pris.» Le Procès, F.Kafka exhibitions and screenings of "Le château": 2005 . San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2004 . ARTRONICA Muestra Internacional de Artes Electrónicas in Bogota, Colombia 2002 . MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives NYC, New York, USA
date: 2002-07-23
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Thé au riz
description: Click here or on the image to see the film you can also see the movie at the bottom of the page You imagine yourself with a bar in the bed, or with the bed in the kitchen Tu t’imagines avec un comptoir dans le lit, ou un lit dans la cuisine exhibitions and screenings of "Thé au riz": 2005 . San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2003 . World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2002 . MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives NYC, New York, USA A text by program director Remco Vlaanderen - WorldWide Video Festival 2003 - about Thé au riz & Strong Enough Thé au Riz, 2002 Video, 15’30 min., colour “You see stuff and, at the same time, hear other stuff. For example, you see a guy's butt in the street and you hear someone talking about his taxes. Totally unrelated”, ponders the voice-over in Thé au Riz. Pierre Yves Clouin juxtaposes a sound recording of an intimate conversation in bed with his lover with lengthy images of public spaces — a shopping mall, a café, a street in New York City. The conversation meanders along, as a wide view of a landscape filmed through an airplane window passes by. The altitude of the plane reduces rivers and mountains to mere cracks and crevices. All sense of proportion is lost. The scene changes, so does the conversation. - What do you mean, the bar that’s higher than you? - What? - You said: on the bar, which is higher than you. - Oh yeah, when you’re sitting on the bed here the bar over there is higher than me. There doesn’t appear to be any sense of logic or direction in this conversation, nor do the changing scenes seem in any way related to each other. It appears to be just pillow talk accompanied by random images shot with a handycam. The man continues to speak in a soft voice about some friends, the places in Paris they visited, which route they took to get there, and where they had lunch. We see a kid wearing an Adidas jack…
date: 2002-01-28
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto

mars train
description: you can see"Mars Train" at the bottom of the page
date: 2002-08-17
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

Le lieu du crime
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Scene of the crime": 2002 . Thaw02, Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema & Culture in Iowa City, Iowa,USA
date: 2001-10-16
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

Strong Enough
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page I don’t need your sympathy... Pas besoin de votre sympathie... Best Musical and Audience Choice Awards, Thaw, Festival of Film Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema and Culture, Iowa City, USA, 2002 Television broadcast: "Vanavond" VPRO Television, Holland, 2003 exhibitions and screenings of "Strong Enough": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2004 “Animal Show,Part 2: Four legs vs. More Legs,” curated by Ben Russel, Magic Lantern, Providence, Rhode Island “Transpédégouines is back”, Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris, Forum des Images, Paris, France “Happy revolution”, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2003 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Microwave International Media Art Festival 03, hong Kong, China 2002 Thaw02, Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema & Culture in Iowa City, Iowa,USA 12th International Video Festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, New York, USA Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL,USA 13th Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany 7th Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, Austin ,Texas, USA Stefan St-Laurent: Extra Ordinary Men Pierre Yves Clouin est un vidéaste excentrique et curieux, et probablement le premier vidéaste avec lequel j’ai travaillé, autour de 1995. Je l’ai rencontré pour la première fois en personne à Paris, sa ville, il y a une dizaine d’années, alors que j’effectuais des recherches à titre de commissaire; il m’a montré un aspect de la ville que peu de jeunes commissaires ont la chance de voir et d’expérimenter. J’y ai été confronté à plein de nouv…
date: 2001-04-11
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: FR

Panda Man
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Panda Man": 6th Unimove festival, Pescara, Italy
date: 2001-06-05
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Anti Social Elevator
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page the anti-social elevator isn’t stuck, it’s laughing exhibitions and screenings of "Anti-Social Elevator": 2001 . Images festival, Toronto, On, Canada . 13th Ankara International film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
date: 2001-04-06
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

My Hands Are Shaking
description: You can see "My Hands Are shaking" at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "My Hands Are Shaking": 2008 Heure Exquise Collection at the Austin GLIFF, Austin, Texas, USA “Let It Be”, curated by Akram Zaatari, Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Beirut, Lebanon 2002 “Tunnel of love” curated by Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, San Francisco, California, USA 2001 MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives NYC, New York, USA Akram Zaatari: The thougt of sex.The problematic presentation of Let it Be in Beirut "... All the works that were labelled "problematic" were screened in the office of the architecte Bernard Khoury in Karantina, where the space was transformed into a theatre with two hundred seats for one evening. Those works included Naufus Figueroa's Masturbation in the Fatherland, Pierre Yves Clouin's My Hands Are Shaking, Jean Gabriel Periot's Lovers and Laetitia Bourget's 7121 images du sexe d'un autre. Akram Zaatari The thougt of sex.The problematic presentation of Let it Be in BeirutQueer Geographies Beirut-Tijuana-Copenhagen 2009, p30
date: 2001-05-21
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Model
description: You can see Model at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Model": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2008 Heure Exquise Collection at the Austin GLIFF, Austin, Texas, USA 2003 London Lesbian & Gay film Festival, BFI, London, UK 2002 8th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Festival, Philadelphia, USA Outfest 2002, Los Angeles, USA 2001 MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives NYC, New York, USA Stefan St-Laurent: Extra Ordinary Men Pierre Yves Clouin est un vidéaste excentrique et curieux, et probablement le premier vidéaste avec lequel j’ai travaillé, autour de 1995. Je l’ai rencontré pour la première fois en personne à Paris, sa ville, il y a une dizaine d’années, alors que j’effectuais des recherches à titre de commissaire; il m’a montré un aspect de la ville que peu de jeunes commissaires ont la chance de voir et d’expérimenter. J’y ai été confronté à plein de nouvelles idées et je me suis posé des questions sur mon compte. Son travail m’a éclairé comme je n’avais jamais imaginé que des videos lo-fi, à petit budget, pouvaient le faire. Clouin vivait en périphérie de Paris dans une cité conçue par Le Corbusier et habitée par des artistes. Nous nous y sommes rendus à pied; c’était assez loin, à partir du Marais jusqu’à la Seine du côté de la bibliothèque Mitterrand, et nous nous sommes arrêtés dans une zone de drague gaie tellement extravagante que Paris a commencé à me sembler irréelle, comme dans un film. Si vous demandiez à des cinéastes hétéros d’essayer d’imaginer à quoi ressemblerait une scène de drague gaie, probablement qu’ils en arriveraient exactement à ce que j’ai vu. Cette réalité était exagérée: j’ai compris sur le champ que je me trouvais, en fait dans cet espace extrêmement chargé et sexualisé qui, depuis toujours, fascine Clouin. Nous avons traversé un passage souterrain qui est vite devenu très sombre, même si nous étions au beau milieu du jo…
date: 2001-04-25
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Tutu et chapeau pointu
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Tutu et châpeau pointu": 2001 . galerie eof, Paris, France 2002 . 6th Unimovie, Pescara, Italy
date: 2001-10-12
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Chicago

Built to Survive
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Built to Survive": 2006 Philadelphia International Gay and Lebian Festival, Philadelphia, USA 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2002 8th Philadelphia International Gay and Lebian Festival, Philadelphia, USA 15th Internationaler Bochumer Video Festival 2001 Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, NB, Canada Onion City Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, chicago, Il, USA 13th Ankara International film Festival, Ankara, Turkey
date: 2001-07-13
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin 2001
type: MovingImage
coverage: Los Angeles

There
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "There": 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2003 London LGBT film Festival, BFI, London, UK 2002 6th Unimovie, Pescara, Italy 2nd Annual Flaming Film Festival presented by Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Shadow on the Wall: Short Film Review 2003 THERE about There, Model, Lunch. Selected short films shown at the British Film Institute's 17th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2-16 April 2003 by Rich Cline THERE dir-scr Pierre Yves Clouin • 02/US 3m *** This single take seems utterly random, like most of Clouin's films, but it has a serious sting in its tale as it tracks up an evening street in Paris, where the pavement is full of cafe tables and boistrous people. Then at the end we stop, the sound fades, and we retrace our steps to where we might have seen something rather shocking. The film catches you off guard with its simple yet pointed way of expressing something very important. 8.Mar.03 llgff
date: 2001-05-08
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Utrecht

The Final Touch
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film or you can see "The Final Touch" at the bottom of the page All this and a throne, too exhibitions and screenings of "The Final Touch": 2005 . San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2000 . Reeling 2000, The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA THE FINAL TOUCH dir Pierre Yves Clouin • 01/France 2m There's only ambient sound--and very little of that even--in this single shot in which a camera roams around a wall and then stops at a small mirror in which we can see the back of a man who's wearing only a T-shirt. Eventually we realise he's wanking. Absurd and pointless. 16.Apr.02 llgff Selected documentary shorts from the British Film Institute's 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 3-17 April 2002. Reviews by Rich Cline
date: 2000-05-11
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Utrecht

Point P
description: You can see "Point P" at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Point P": 2008 . “Let It Be”, curated by Akram Zaatari, Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Beirut, Lebanon
date: 2000-03-25
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Flying Sculpture
description: Programming Pause exhibitions and screenings of "Flying Sculpture": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA “A Sense of Site: from Calcutta to Afganistan” curated by Irina Leimbacher, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, USA 2002 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany MIX Festival Highlights in Toronto, at the Images Film Festival, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada 2001 9th Biennal of Moving Images, Center for Contemporary Images, Geneva, Switzeland Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, NB, Canada 13th Ankara International film Festiva, Ankara, Turkey MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives NYC, New York, USA “circles and squares”, NYC, New York, USA 5th UNIMOVIE University Video and Shortfilm Festival, Pescara, Italy
date: 2000-09-07
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin 2000
type: MovingImage
coverage: Los Angeles

Shadow Box
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page The Father’s place La place du père exhibitions and screenings of "Shadow Box": 2006 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Festival, Philadelphia, USA 2003 Mardi Gras film Festival, Sydney, Australia 2002 8th Philadelphia International Gay and Lebian Festival, Philadelphia, USA 26th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA 2nd Annual Flaming Film Festival presented by Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA NAP Biennal Video Festival:MCS Gallery, Arts Resource Center, Easton, PA, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Hunterdown Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY, Marywood University Art Galleries, Scranton, PA, Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA, USA 2001 Pandæmonium Bienniale of Moving Images,London's Lux Center of Film, Video and Digital Arts, London, UK Festival des cinemas différents, La clef, Paris, France 13th Ankara International film Festival, Ankara, Turkey MIX NYC, Anthology Film Archives NYC, New York, USA Thaw 01 Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media,Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
date: 2000-04-22
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Insert
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Insert": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2002 Glazart, Paris, France 2001 Videobrazil Electronic Art International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2000 Forcement Contemporain, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Vidéoformes 2000, 15ème Festival International d'Arts Vidéo et Multimédia, Clermont-Ferrand, France Extra Ordinary Men Pierre Yves Clouin est un vidéaste excentrique et curieux, et probablement le premier vidéaste avec lequel j’ai travaillé, autour de 1995. Je l’ai rencontré pour la première fois en personne à Paris, sa ville, il y a une dizaine d’années, alors que j’effectuais des recherches à titre de commissaire; il m’a montré un aspect de la ville que peu de jeunes commissaires ont la chance de voir et d’expérimenter. J’y ai été confronté à plein de nouvelles idées et je me suis posé des questions sur mon compte. Son travail m’a éclairé comme je n’avais jamais imaginé que des videos lo-fi, à petit budget, pouvaient le faire. Clouin vivait en périphérie de Paris dans une cité conçue par Le Corbusier et habitée par des artistes. Nous nous y sommes rendus à pied; c’était assez loin, à partir du Marais jusqu’à la Seine du côté de la bibliothèque Mitterrand, et nous nous sommes arrêtés dans une zone de drague gaie tellement extravagante que Paris a commencé à me sembler irréelle, comme dans un film. Si vous demandiez à des cinéastes hétéros d’essayer d’imaginer à quoi ressemblerait une scène de drague gaie, probablement qu’ils en arriveraient exactement à ce que j’ai vu. Cette réalité était exagérée: j’ai compris sur le champ que je me trouvais, en fait dans cet espace extrêmement chargé et sexualisé qui, depuis toujours, fascine Clouin. Nous avons traversé un passage souterrain qui est vite devenu très sombre, même si nous étions au beau milieu du jour. On pouvait voir des figures en mouvement, des si…
date: 2000-02-25
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris