Pensez à un chiffre
description: Pensez à un chiffre
date: 1997-08-11
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin & Tony Frank Paschall
relation: poste restante
type: Text
coverage: Paris

Rencontre fortuite d'une écharpe et d'un tapis presque du même rouge (Fortuitous encounter of a scarf and a rug almost the same red)
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page exhibitions and screenings of ”Rencontre fortuite d'une écharpe et d'un tapis presque du même rouge”: 2013 Exploding Cinema at Canterbury Arms, Brixton, UK
date: 2013-04-15
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
relation: Exploding Cinema at Canterbury Arms, Brixton, UK
type: MovingImage

Rencontre fortuite d'une écharpe et d'un tapis presque du même rouge in Exploding Cinema at Canterbury Arms
date: 2013-11-08
relation: Rencontre fortuite d'une écharpe et d'un tapis presque du même rouge
type: event
coverage: Brixton, UK

Repose têtes (Heads Rest)
description: exhibitions and screenings of ”Repose têtes”: 2015 Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2014 EXPLODING CINEMA, Peckham Liberal Club, London, UK
date: 2013-08-13
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

Rodin des bois (Rodin Wood)
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page Le Rodin du rondin de l’arbre qui cache la forêt Cannot see the forest for the trees "Troncs arrachés, souches brisées, branches pendantes… tous ces fantômes de bois habitent la forêt. Les formes monstrueuses et hybrides que la nature crée de son propre effondrement deviennent ici, dans le cadre que pose furtivement Pierre-Yves Clouin, le visage d’une chimère, le profil d’une loutre, un œil de serpent. " "Sheared off trunks, smashed roots, dangling branches... all these phantoms of wood dwell in the forest. Monstrous, hybrid shapes that nature creates through her own collapsing, framed here in Pierre Yves Clouin's furtive gaze, are transformed into the face of a chimera, the profile of an otter, or the eye of a serpent". FID Marseille exhibitions and screenings of ”Rodin des bois”: 2013 FID, Festival International de Cinema, Marseille, France Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK " Shooting Star : étoile filante ou étoile que l’on a filmée, la double traduction amorce le propos de Pierre Yves Clouin qui n’a jamais abandonné cette possibilité de double lecture. Qu’il filme en ses débuts, son corps en « contenu explicite » comme les catalogues qualifient ses œuvres, alors la vidéo s’intitule Cow Boy, en accord avec le plan de bas du corps, jambes écartées, en position de duel, mais la main attouche le sexe. Le corps, nu encore, devient (c’est) le veau qui bêle grâce au cadrage détournant le visage et se jouant des mouvements des membres, de même Workman transforme ce corps humain en être différent… Depuis ce sont les objets, les lieux, les éléments qui sont ainsi détournés pour seul exemple : Rodin des bois entraîne au versant de l’étrange, des troncs devenant chimères. En un nouvel esprit des choses, Clouin sait créer des beautés cachées, dans l’immédiateté de leur rencontre au gré de ses déplacements. Il accepte l’invitation. Du quotidien, il trouve la tension, le moment où l’on se plaî…
date: 2013-04-02
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

Rodin des bois in Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK
description: Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK
relation: Rodin des bois
type: event
coverage: Sheffield, UK

Thérapie manuelle
date: 2005-07-13
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

Tronches d'arbres (Wooden Faces)
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page
date: 2014-01-14
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

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

Une femme, (A Woman,)
description: Dans son coin In her corner exhibitions and screenings of "Une femme," 2023: 1 Minuto Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil 2020: Vidéothèque Festival du Film Court d'Angoulême, "La cave à films" (selection FIFCA 2019 ), Angoulême, France 2019: Edition 5 of Megacities Shortdocs, Paris The Lift-Off Sessions, London, UK Festival du film court d'Angoulême, Angoulême, France F Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (RISC), Marseille, France 2018: MiMo, Milano Mobile Film Festival, Milano, Italy Un festival c'est trop court, Nice, France
date: 2018-01-15
type: Moving Image
coverage: Paris

Velouté poireaux pommes de terre
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page
date: 2004-07-20
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

"Shooting Star" selected at EUROVIDEO Festival Europeen des Arts Videos
description: Shooting Star has been selected at EUROVIDEO Festival Européen des Arts Videos (organized by Videographies and Argos, Centre for Art and Media) and screened March 15-17, at Théatre de Liège, Belgium and silmutaneously presented at Le Manège, Scène Nationale, Maubeuge, France, Le Casino Luxembourg, 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
date: 2018-03-15/16
relation: Shooting Star
coverage: Liège, Belgium Maubeuge, France Luxembourg Podgorica, Montenegro Rome, Italy Antwerp, Belgium

"faites comme chez vous"
description: "faites comme chez vous" (1995, tiré à 150 ex) cassette pour répondeur téléphonique sur laquelle est enregistré notre message (de Tony Paschall et Pierre Yves Clouin) à installer sur son propre répondeur
date: 1995-10-25
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin & Tony Frank Paschall
relation: poste restante
format: 3,7 x 5,4 x 1,1 cm
type: Text
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

Commande public the Public Commissions
description: commande public (1997, tiré à 250 ex) the Public Commissions
date: 1997-12-22
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin & Tony Frank Paschall
relation: poste restante
type: Text
coverage: Paris

Je suis un indien Pontiac (I'm a Pontiac Indian)
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page This film was shot during a Institut français, Hors les Murs Program (section film, video, cinema), arts residency in Montreal, Canada, in the summer of 2010. The project is a chronological record, each scene engendering the next. Working without written notes of what I shot, I recorded over 10 hours of video merely keeping in mind that the order in which everything was filmed had provoked what I was currently shooting. Returning to Paris for editing, I sorted my footage in repeated viewings. I had to find an atmosphere, a rhythm, a current, from scene to scene, that seemed compelling, a flow that underlied the shooting. This binding element is like an arc that was built up slowly, as the project progressed. It is an arc that brings together two images that are strictly unrelated, and makes one follow naturally on the other — a group of men, for example, casting a sidelong glance at a passing police car on a bridge at night, followed by a human foot that seems to emerge from a tree trunk in broad daylight and kick in rhythm. With each viewing, I preserved only those scenes that seemed most closely to fit this arc and eliminated everything else, all the while preserving the exact chronology of the shooting sequence. What remans is 39 minutes of video in 73 scenes. J’ai fait ce film durant une résidence Institut Français programme Hors les murs section Film vidéo cinéma, à Montréal l’été 2010. Le projet est un enregistrement chronologique, chaque scène ayant engendré la suivante. Sans avoir de note sur ce que j’avais filmé, j’ai tourné une dizaine d’heures avec à l’esprit l’idée que l’ordre dans lequel tout était filmé provoquait ce que j’étais en train de filmer. Au montage en rentrant à Paris, j’ai fait un tri par passages successifs. Il a fallu retrouver une atmosphère, un rythme ou un flux qui semble s’imposer de lui même entre les images, flux qui était sous tendu au tournage. Ce liant, c’est comme une courbe qui s’…
date: 2010-10-10
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Montréal

Le poisson (Fish)
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page Cellophane, St Jacques Street Paris, July 2012 Cellophane, rue St Jacques Paris, Juillet 2012 exhibitions and screenings of ”Le poisson”: 2013 . Exploding Cinema at Stubnitz , Ship of Fools and Monsters, Wood Wharf - Canary Wharf, London, UK 2012 . ExperiMENTAL, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, UK
date: 2012-07-02
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage

Mais pourquoi t'es tout mouillé? (But Why Are You So Wet ?)
description: click Here or on the photo to see the film or you can see "Mais pourquoi t'es tout mouillé" at the bottom of the page « Are you sure? No, I don’t » « Vous êtes sûr ? Non, je l’ fais pas » Television broadcast: ADD-TV, NYC, New York, USA, 2007 exhibitions and screenings of "Mais pourquoi t’es tout mouillé?": 2007 ADD-TV, NYC, New York, USA 2004 Mix Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil Cinematexas 04, Austin, Texas, USA Athens International Film and Video Festival,, Athens, Ohio, USA 2003 MIX NYC 17, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, New York, USA about Mais pourquoi t'es tout mouillé? Time to Mix 2003 by JAMES CARSEY: “Why Are You So Wet” by Pierre Yves Clouin looks closely at the things you see everyday.
date: 2003-10-05
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris, London, Amsterdam

Reflexion faite (On Reflection)
description: you can see the movie at the bottom of the page L’intérieur est à l’extérieur Inside is outside
date: 2012-04-10
rights: © Pierre Yves Clouin
type: MovingImage
coverage: Paris