CV
2018 - Prix du Jury L’Œil d’Oodaaq, Vidéo/Bars, Nantes, France: Shooting Star
2010 - Institut français, Programme Hors les Murs Residency , Section Film Video, Cinema, Montréal, Québec, Canada: Je suis un indien Pontiac
2008 - 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
2002 - 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
2002 - 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
1999 - 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
1998 - CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques), grant, Paris, France
1997 - Third Prize, 8th Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany, Front Room
1997 - Prix DRAC Auvergne, Videoformes, Clermont Ferrand, France - C'est le veau qui bêle
1992 - DAC Paris (Direction des affaires culturelles de la ville de Paris), France, publication grant, "L'Impossible graveur..." Ed Galerie D.Maniere
Selected screenings, festivals, exhibitions:
2021
XXIVe Rencontres Internationales Traverse 2021, Toulouse, France
The Incurable Caravan’s Online Car Show, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
13è édition des Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC), Marseille, France
Encuentro Internacional de Cineastas 2021, Esto Es Para Esto, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
2020
Vidéothèque Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, "La cave à films" (selection FIFCA 2019), Angoulême, France
Soanyway Magazine, (October 2020, Issue 7), Leeds, UK
"One Shot" International Short Film Festival, Armenian Center For Contemporary Experimental Art / NPAK, Yerevan, Armenia
September Cutlog Screening, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Vidéothèque Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, "La cave à films" (selection FIFCA 2017), Angoulême, France
Exploding Detonation, Exploding Cinema, London, UK
66 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, online open screening, Oberhausen, Germany
Les Inattendus, Biennial, Lyon, France
SSA/Cutlog Artist Moving Image exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2019
Edition 5 of Megacities Shortdocs, Paris, France
Block Arty, Peekskill Film Festival, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA
The Lift-Off Sessions, London, UK
Soanyway Magazine, (Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2019), Leeds, UK
WUFF7, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, Angoulême, France
12e Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (RISC), Marseille, France
Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Musée des Abattoirs-Frac Occitanie, Toulouse, France
Exploding Cinema at the Others, London, UK
RPM Festival, UMass-Boston, MA, USA
Paesaggi Concettuali, Ospizio Giovani Artisti, Rome, Italy
2018
Vidéo/Bars, curated by Le Oodaaq, Nantes, France
MiMo, Milano Mobile Film Festival, Milano, Italy
Un Festival c'est trop court, Nice, France
WNDX, Festival of Moving Image, Carte Blanche Les Inattendus, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
4 Bengals International (Short Film Festival), Bengalore, Karnataka, India
Oh Neigh! Exploding Cinema , the Horse Hospital, London, UK
Eurovideo Festival Européen des Arts Videos at:
- Théatre de Liège, Belgium
- Le Manège, Scène Nationale, Maubeuge, France
- Le Casino, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
- CEZAM, Centar za multimedijalnu produkcuju, Podgorica, Montenegro
- La Nuova Pesa, Centro Arte Contemporanea a Roma, Rome, Italy
- Cinema Zuid, Antwerp, Belgium
and on RTBF and RTC
Rencontres Traverse Video, Toulouse, France
Les Inattendus, Lyon, France
2017
"Lorient espaces urbains en transformation" Galerie d'art Collège de Kerdurand, Riantec, France
San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, CA, USA
"Artscience the new and history", program curated by RISC, Sala Conferenze "Marco Biagi", Bologna, Italy
Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, Angoulême, France
Cinésciences curated by RISC, College Clair Soleil, Marseille, France
aDifferent Festival, curated by aCinema, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2016
10e Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas, RISC, Marseille, France
Cheap curated by Vaginal Davis and Marc Siegel, Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Vinokino, Turku - Helsinki - Oulu, Finland
Un Festival c'est trop court, Nice, France
L'Observatoire du Livre, Punto de Fuga program at l'Observatoire de Haute Provence, France
Winnipeg Underground Flm Festival, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Hidden Door, Alchemy screening, Edimburgh, Scotland, UK
Crossroads organized by San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015
9e Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC), Marseille, France
Un festival c'est trop court!, Nice, France
Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Festival du Peu, curated by Heliotrope, Bonson, France
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Commemorating the 20th edition of the Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
Exploding Cinema's, at Ivy House, London, UK
Focus, Best of Videoformes 1989 - 2004, Maison de la Culture, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2014
"Le triple ecran", Le corps numérique, Théatre Liberté, Toulon, France
- Peckham Liberal Club
- Exploding Seenema at Shuffle Festival, London, UK
2013
Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films Show at
- Cinema Museum, London
- Canterbury Arms, Brixton
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield
- Stubnitz Show, London, UK
FID, Festival International de Cinema, Marseille, France
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
2010
"Extra Ordinary Men: Videos by Pierre Yves Clouin," curated by Stefan St-Laurent, Art Star Biennale, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Access & Paradox , “The Nomad Project," Paris, France / Souvenirs From the Earth (TV), France Germany
PrideFest, Milwaukee Pridefest Film & Video Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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
"New York Intime", Apexart program at the Pocket Film Festival, Forum des Images, Paris, France
20th anniversary program of the Hamburg Gay 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
"Collection", 21st Austin LGBT 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
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
- Central Cinema, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Axiom Theatre, Houston, Texas, USA
- 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
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 Film Festival
Tout Courts : Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence, 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
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,” 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
“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, “ 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
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
L'appartement, programme Videoformes, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
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
Corps Accords, Play On2, Videozart, Le cinematographe, Nantes, France
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 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)
N.A.P. Video Festival ‘98 (continues)
- 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
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, 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