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

Finger Puppets
description: You can see the film at the bottom of the page du doigté de loin exhibitions and screenings of "Finger Puppets": 2010 . “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2007 . “Experiencing Limits” Reflets du cinéma Festival, Château Gontier, 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 silhouettes qui se profilaient devant la petite entrée à l’autre bout d’où émanait un peu de lumière. Je lui ai dit que j’avais peur, et il a ri. En co…
date: 2001-05-05
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

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

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

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

Broom Ballet
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page Pas de 2 with lederhosen Pas de 2 avec lederhosen Audience Prize for Best New Media Work, 14e Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada exhibitions and screenings of "Broom Ballet": 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 2002 . 2nd Annual Flaming Film Festival presented by Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 2001 .13th Videobrasil Electronic Art International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil . 13th Ankara International film Festival, Ankara, Turkey . 14th Stuttgarter Filmwinter Exhibition and Festival of Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany 2000 . 2e Festival des cinemas différents, Paris, France . 14e Festival International de Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada 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…
date: 2000-07-07
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

J'ai des bouches partout (I’ve Got Mouths All Over)
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film or you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "J’ai des bouches partout": 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 "Corps Accords," program curated by Patrice Allain, Vidéoz'Arts, Nantes, France MIX NYC, The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival, New York City, New York, USA Reeling 2000, The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival Chicago, Illinois, USA Vidéoformes 2000, 15ème Festival International d'Arts Vidéo et Multimédia, Clermont-Ferrand, France Marc Siegel, "My Levitating Butt and Other Queer Abstractions," 2020 Differenz und Affirmation. queer/feministische Positionen zur Medialität, ed. Julia Bee and Nicole Kandioler. Berlin: b_books, 2020. 133-155. White letters on a black background form the enigmatic erotically tinged title: CUL EN L'AIR.1 Cut to the first and only shot of this three and a half minute video. We are positioned on the ground looking between the legs of a white man lying on his back wearing little more than sneakers and a white jockstrap. His right foot is briefly on view in the left fore-ground of the image. As it moves out of frame, the body repositions itself slightly so that a part of the man's shaven head is visible in the left background. He is apparently wearing a blue sweatshirt but, clued in by the title and the unusual and unchanging camera position, we know that it is his lower body.specifically his "cul " which will be our main object of attention.The man's hand reaches down the back of his right thigh, tentatively scratches his butt cheek. flicks the elastic strap on the jockstrap and eventually retreats out of frame.The low quality video recording captures the thick location sound of empty room noise. punctuated by occasional sounds of the body’s slight movements (fingernails scratching skin, butt-checks …
date: 1999-09-14
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

The Little Big
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film or You can see "The Little Big" at the bottom of the page There is something clossal in things small Il y a quelque chose de colossal dans le petit exhibitions and screenings of "The Little Big": 2010 . "Extraordinary Men" program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2004 . Shot in the back, Paris, France 2003 . "Dirges and Sturgeons" 2003 tour: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Available Light at Club SAW, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2002 . "Dirges and Sturgeons" 2002 tour: Artists' Television Access, San Francisco CA, Santa Barbara Community College CAC-Level, Los Angeles CA, Pitzer College Cinematheque, Claremont CA, "Broken Music" at Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis MN,Bamboo Theater Presents, Milwaukee WI,Madison's Starlight Cinema, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI,Discount Cinema at The Empty Bottle, Chicago IL, Illinois State University Cinema Society, Bloomington-Normal IL, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA, 3 Billion Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TXLee Hardware Gallery, Shreveport, LA, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ, The Earwig Factory, Bisbee, AZ, Harvard University, Cambridge, MS, with Elizabeth Subrin (not open to the public),Massachusetts Art Film Society, Boston, MS, Yale University, New Haven, CTWestern Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY "Adolescent Boys, And Living Rooms," curated by Astria Suparak,Mexico City's Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico . Glazart, Paris, France .Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia 2001 . Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin,L'entrepôt, Paris, France . Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin, Aroma & Brotfabrik, Berlin, Germany . "D…
date: 1999-08-08
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Diana Texas
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film or you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of "Diana Texas": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2001 carte blanche à PY Clouin, La clef, Paris, France "Dragged Out: A Studied Glance at Current Radical Drag," curated by Ger Zielinski for Toronto's Pleasure Dome 2000 L.A. Freewaves, 7th Festival of Experimental Media, Ben Maltz Gallery/Otis college of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, USA 5th International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia Forcement Contemporain, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Outfest 2000, The 18th Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA "Fade Out: New Video Part Two," Chicago Filmmakers Exhibition Series, curated by Patrick Friel, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1999 Media Non Grata, offline@online media art festival 2nd edition, E-Media Center, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia Videoarchaeology / Sofia-Paris Video 1, International Exhibition of Video Art, Sofia, Bulgaria Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New Brunswick,Canada "Dragged Out, A Studied Glance at Current Radical Drag," curated by Ger J.Z. Zielinski, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 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…
date: 1999-05-11
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: USA

Mon lapin bleu (Honey Bunny)
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film or you can see "Mon lapin bleu" at the bottom of the page Always begin the workout with a short warm-up La carotte, c’est moi exhibitions and screenings of "Mon Lapin bleu": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2009 “bonbons”, Festival International du court metrage de Lille, Lille, France 2008 Monkey Town, Wiliamsburg Brooklyn, NYC, New York, USA 2006 Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 11th Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Philadelphia, USA 2004 “Transpédégouines is back”, Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris, Forum des Images, Paris, France 2003 Vue sur court, short film festival, La Rochelle, France 2002 “Tunnel of love” curated by Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, San Francisco, California, USA Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, BFI, London, UK 8th Philadelphia International Gay + Lesbian Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA 2nd Annual Flaming Film Festival presented by Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 2001 Mix Brazil tour: "Body and Art" Humberto Mauro Auditorium, Palace of the Arts,Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2000 Corps Accords, Vidéoz'Arts, Nantes, France 12th New Festival, New York City, New York, USA MiX Brasil 2000 8º Festival da Diversidade Sexual, São Paulo, Brazil & Tour Reeling 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA 11 Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany ImageOut, Rochester, New York, USA Outfest 2000, Los Angeles, California, USA “Things We Do,” curated by Patrick Murphy, Arthouse Multimedia Centre for the Arts, Dublin, Ireland Experimental Program at Kino im Shulz, curated by Deni Adzic, Cologne, Germany Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia 1999 Media No…
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin

La robe
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page
date: 1999-07-18
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Pneumatic Flight
description: Click here or on the photo to see the film or you can see the movie at the bottom of the page In with the good air, out with the bad Inspirer le bon, exhaler le mauvais exhibitions and screenings of "Pneumatic Flight": 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2003 “Body on Screen,” curated by Erin Brannigan, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia 2001 14th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Exhibition and Festival of Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany Carte blanche à PY Clouin, La clef, Paris, France Galerie eof, Paris, France 2000 17. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest,Kassel, Germany backup 2.0 festival.new media in film, Bauhaus University, Faculty of Media, Weimar, Germany 13èmes Instants Vidéo, Rencontres Internationales de Manosque, Manosque, France Impakt 2000, 11th International Festival for Audio-Visual Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands Thaw 00, Fifth Annual Festival of Film, Video and Digital Media, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA "Fade Out: New Video Part Two," Chicago Filmmakers Exhibition Series, curated by Patrick Friel, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, 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 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 s…
date: 1999-03-21
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Carnissus
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page Television broadcast: Switch 2, Atelier de recherche de la sept arte, arte 1999 Ger Zielinski Short, Quiet and Disturbing On Recent Video Work by Pierre Yves Clouin My first brush with Clouin was seeing his video MY LEVITATING BUTT (Cul en l'air) (1997), a sharp short that shoots from tle hip and reveals several of the artist's concerns. Butt is composed of a single shot containing now and then part of the artist's body. The work opens with the actor/artist apparendy lying on the floor for a few moments nearly naked, clad merely in a skimpy jockstrap. He then slaps his butt and begins to levitate, legs curled up and hidden from the camera, exposing only his back, subtly bobbing upwards and magically tansforming into what appears to be the giant head of a fully erect penis, eventually escaping out of the top of the screen. The image is centred, symmetrical, simple.The body is Platonic in its self discipline, its certainty, its athleticism, its lean, taut muscles, always a pleasure to uncover, to view. The movement of the body across the frame is forever steady, precise. Nothing wasted, nothing extraneous. The sound is raw, from the studio in which the tape was shot, apparendy unmanipulated and direct. Thematically, the work addresses vision and the gaze through framing devices and the male body, but the accent is equally on the male figure and the representation of gay male sexuality. These elements return in various combinations and balances in Clouin's more recent work. On his artistic practice Clouin notes, “Alone in front of the camera, and without word, I spy on myself in the monitor during the action. I am double: seer and seen." This excerpt captures and accurately accounts for several elements characterizing his work. In particular, the strong, successful play with framing is reminiscent of Warhol's provocative film Blow Job (1963) in which only an actor's face and upper body are in view. The putative offscreen …
date: 1999-04-26
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Los Angeles
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page
date: 1999-07-16
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Head Egg
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page I laid something J’ai pondu quelque chose Special Mention, Videoarcheology / Sofia-Paris Video 1, International Exhibition of Video Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1999 Television broadcast: Switch 2, Atelier de recherche de la sept arte, arte, 1999 exhibitions and screenings of "Head Egg": 1999 Videoarcheology / Sofia-Paris Video 1, International Exhibition of Video Art, Sofia, Bulgaria "Switch 2," presented by Claire Doutriaux and Paul Ouazan, L'Atelier de la Sept arte, at Les Instants Video de Manosque, France Inrockuptibles Art critic Nicolas Thély publishes a review of Switch 2, arte 1999 Pierre-Yves Clouin enregistre dans son intégralité une action souvent vaine (comme se déplacer à quatre pattes) mais qui intrigue par ses effets d'oprique . Le jeune vidéaste se joue du temps de la télévision, du temps segmenté par la publicité, formaté par la grille des programmes où rien n'est gratuit. Les nuits de la pleine lune Switch 2 Films expérimentaux, films abstraits, art vidéo et performances surgissent sur les écrans d'ARTE chaque nuit de pleine lune. Douce dérision, grain de folie et accès d'humeur s'immiscent dans cette troisième Nuit. Une nuit proposée par Claire Doutriaux et Paul Ouazan LA SEPT ARTE Une année des treize lunes ARTE fête les treize pleines lunes de 1999 avec l3 programmations spéciales. Chaque Nuit sera produite par un des partenaires d'ARTE (Allemagne, France, Belgique, Espagne...). Elle donnera libre cours à des programmes inédits :courts métrages, surprises, films expérimentaux, auto.tictions, zapping... Expérimentez ! Une fois par mois, Switch privilégie I'univers singulier d'un réalisateur ou d'un artiste. Après leur première Nuit, Claire Doutriaux et Paul Ouazan nous proposent ce soir d'explorer le travail unique du vidéaste américain Nelson Sullivan. Figure connue du milieu underground new-yorkais, celui-ci nous guide dans les rues d'un New York inconnu avec humour et autodérision. On verra aussi les æ…
date: 1998-12-04
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin 1998
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris

Kangaroo
description: Get your hand out my pocket Ote ta main de ma poche exhibitions and screenings of "Kangaroo": 2025 Exquisite Corpse (September), curated by Abygai Peña & Jay Reinier, Millenium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NYC, NY, USA 2010 “Extraordinary Men” program curated by Stefan St Laurent, Art Star video Biennal, Galerie Saw Gallery, Ottawa, On, Canada 2009 “Bonbon," Festival International du court mètrage de Lille, Lille, France 2008 “Let It Be”, curated by Akram Zaatari, Home Works IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Beirut, Lebanon 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque presents "We Cannot exhibit It: The Videos of Pierre Yves Clouin", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA Festival Tout Courts: Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence,Aix-en-Provence, France 2003 Vue sur court, short film festival, La Rochelle, France 2002 Glazart, Paris, France 2001 ART Basel, VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media's Switzerland Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia 2000 "Corps Accords," Vidéoz'Arts, Nantes, France "Fade Out: New Video Part Two," Chicago Filmmakers Exhibition Series, curated by Patrick Friel, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 13th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany 1999 Media Non Grata, offline@online media art festival 2nd edition, E-Media Center, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia MiX Brasil 99, São Paulo, Brazil Videoarchaeology / Sofia-Paris Video 1, International Exhibition of Video Art, Sofia, Bulgaria Pervoplanet, Turku, Finland 15th International Hamburger KurzFilm Festival, Hamburg, Germany MIX Mexico 999 - Tercer Festival de Diversidad Sexual en Cine y Video, Mexico City, Mexico 13th London LGBT Film Festival, British Film Institute, London, UK 14èmes Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia Resisting Sociopolitical Constructions of the Body " by Sophie Walon in The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies Edidited by Douglas Rosenberg, Oxford University Press, 2016…
date: 1998-04-27
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris