J'ai des bouches partout (I’ve Got Mouths All Over)
Title
J'ai des bouches partout (I’ve Got Mouths All Over)
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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
Resisting Sociopolitical Constructions of the Body " by Sophie Walon in The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies Edidited by Douglas Rosenberg, Oxford University Press, 2016
… Les films de Clouin et Goldring, en particulier, déterritorialisent les organes sexuels et les membres. Par exemple, dans “J'ai des bouches partout”(1999) qu’il traduit par “I’ve got mouths all over”, Clouin fait que son oreille ressemble à une bouche et suggère qu’elle devienne un organe sexuel, capable d’une fellation. C’est une sorte de déteterritorialisation fantastique de ses organes suivant une logique libidinale de réinvention de sa corporalité comme plus sexuée. Il semble trahir un souhait d’avoir plus d’organes sexuels à explorer et un appel à ce que le corps entier mute en une surface érogène étendue.
Sophie Walon
Sophie Walon
Rajendra Roy: Naked Eye
"'Timidity is not an issue,' says video artist Pierre Yves Clouin. Part exhibitionist, part auteur, Clouin is not afraid to show a little skin in his little videos (none are more than 5 minutes long). And is not afraid to share an opinion either: 'Full frontal nudity is curiously flat.'
"As both director and star of his growing body of work, Clouin focuses his lens on parts of the male body that don't often make gay top-ten lists, like armpits and shoulders, the small of the back and the top of the head. Clouin works like a video Venus Flytrap, seducing audiences with intimate close-ups of curves and orifices on his own well-sculpted body. Just when you think you recognize what's on screen, the body unfolds and you realize you just got turned on shoulder cleavage (The Little Big, 2000) or by a particularly sexy earlobe (I've Got Mouths All Over, 1999).
"Earlier this year he screened a tape at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. This fall he has a few venues lined up including the MIX Festival in Manhattan, where Clouin once premiered The Bleating Calf and caused a sensation with animal rights activists until it was explained that what looked like a lamb about to be slaughtered was actually Clouin himself, naked and moaning.
"Clouin travels quite a bit these days, leaving his boyfriend at home in Paris. Exquisitely formed and clearly at ease with exposing himself to the critical masses, Clouin has some sexy advice for the body-obsessed among us: 'Accept pleasure whatever it may be and whenever it strikes.'"
Rajendra Roy
Chief curator, Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art;
Competition Selection Committee, Berlinale Internationale
Filmfestspiele Berlin; Formerly, programmer, artistic director,
Hamptons International Film Festival; executive director, MIX
Gay/Lesbian Film Festival; Film and Media Arts Program Manager, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Education: BA, University of California, San Diego
Co-founder: Rising Stars program
Publications include: "Making Choices," Moving Pictures; "The New
'Old' World," IndieWIRE; "Naked Eye: Pierre-Yves Clouin," Empire,
no. 7; "The Knickian Doctrine: A Metaphor for the Future of the Media
Arts," MAIN; "The Truth and the Need: Jim Hubbard as Curator" in
Jim Hubbard, Filmmaker, exh. cat. Brooklyn: Dumba Arts Center;
"Films and Videos for a Synthetic Society" with Anie Stanley, in Next
Sex; "L'Attrape Mouche (Venus Flytrap)" in Turbulences Video #29.
Date
1999-09-14
Rights
© Pierre Yves Clouin
Type
MovingImage
Coverage
Paris
Original Format
dv
Duration
00:02:30
Director
Pierre Yves Clouin
Files
Collection
Citation
“J'ai des bouches partout (I’ve Got Mouths All Over),” Pierre Yves Clouin, accessed August 8, 2022, https://pierreyvesclouin.fr/items/show/88.