"Shooting Star” selected at Crossroads organized by San Francisco Cinematheque, screened Saturday, April 2 at 1pm in Program#3 sensible evidence of future /always the hour of noon at Victoria Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA
]]>"Shooting Star” selected at Crossroads organized by San Francisco Cinematheque, screened Saturday, April 2 at 1pm in Program#3 sensible evidence of future /always the hour of noon at Victoria Theatre, San Francisco, CA, USA
"Shooting Star" in Competition Experience at Un festival c'est trop court!, Festival Européen de court métrage de Nice, October 9 to 16, Nice, France
screenings:
"Shooting Star" in Competition Experience at Un festival c'est trop court!, Festival Européen de court métrage de Nice, October 9 to 16, Nice, France
screenings:
"Shooting Star" selected at the 20th Split Film Festival, September 12 - 19, Split, Croatia, and screened on September 18
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"Shooting Star" selected at the 20th Split Film Festival, September 12 - 19, Split, Croatia, and screened on September 18
Repose têtes (Heads Rest) selected at the 26th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL, USA organized by Chicago Filmmakers
Saturday, January 31
5:00pm
Columbia College (Ferguson Theater) – 600 S. Michigan Ave.
Shorts Program Four
Repose têtes (Heads Rest) selected at the 26th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL, USA organized by Chicago Filmmakers
Saturday, January 31
5:00pm
Columbia College (Ferguson Theater) – 600 S. Michigan Ave.
Shorts Program Four
Exploding Cinema's Phone Made Films, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK
"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".
]]>"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".
Selected documentary shorts from the British Film Institute's 16th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 3-17 April 2002.
Any chance to see short films on a big screen should be siezed upon!
Reviews by Rich Cline
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
MON LAPIN BLEU [My Blue Rabbit]
dir Pierre Yves Clouin • 00/France 1m
Erm, like PY Clouin's other short here (The Final Touch), this is an absurd silent snippet. But unlike that other one, this is actually oddly funny as it features a naked man wrestling sexually with a big, blue stuffed bunny rabbit ... in front of a Christmas tree! Makes you worry. Hmmm. 16.Apr.02 llgff
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
MODEL
dir-scr Pierre Yves Clouin • 01/Fr 3m **
Strange short film that doesn't really make sense but somehow generates a feeling of furtive and dangerous lust, as it features just a few images, filmed surreptitiously, of guys fumbling sexually out of view of the general public. The camera catches them--either in pairs or on their own--only because it knows where to look. The images are all illicit, sneaky, through bars, around corners or extremely close so no one knows someone's filming. Half of the short is in split screen, it's completely silent, and features one title in the middle: "in jail now". So there. 8.Mar.03 llgff
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