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follow these links for information on screenings in 2000 and 2002
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Clouin's "Shadow Box" (2000) was presented during the closing night screening of the 3rd Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris on December 9, at the Cinéma La Clef in Paris. The festival ran December 4-9.
Pierre Yves Clouin curated two programs that were presented in Paris in December 2001, at the Cinéma La Clef and featured works by Joe Sola, Darrin Martin, Stefan St. Laurent, James Hegge, Nelson Henricks, Maïa Cybelle Carpenter, Leighton Pierce, Cheryl Cambras, Jasmine Moorhead, Torsten Zenas Burns, Steve Reinke, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Rebekah Rutkoff, Ursula Hodel, and others. Follow these links for details on the artists and their works in English and French.
Six works by Clouin were screened at the 13th Ankara International Film Festival in Ankara, Turkey: "Anti-Social Elevator" (2000), "Broom Ballet" (2000) "Built to Survive" (2001), "Flying Sculpture" (2000), "Shadow Box" (2000), and "The Little Big" (1999). The festival's short film screenings were held at the Turkish-British Cultural Center and the Goethe Institute in Ankara. The festival ran November 26 through December 9.
Four new works by Clouin were screened at MIX NYC in November: "Shadow Box" (2000), [Mix NYC: Pop! Quinceañera Ball, Festival Opening Night Event]"Flying Sculpture" (2000) [Mix NYC: Fuck Logic], along with two works in their world premiers, "Model" (2001, top photo) [Mix NYC: Band of Outsiders] and "My Hands Are Shaking" (2001, bottom photo) [Mix NYC: Handjob]. 
Clouin's "I Have Mouths All Over" (1999) was also screened in Memorizing Mix, a three-part series highlighting the best films and videos presented at Mix over the past 15 years [Mix NYC: Memorizing Mix Program III - Shoot Fast, Play Hard 1997-2000]. The festival ran November 14-16.
Clouin's "Flying Sculpture" (2000) was screened on November 3 in "Circles and Squares," the inaugural program of Jaraf, a monthly screening series curated by Jasmine Moorhead and Rebekah Rutkoff in collaboration with The Culture Project. Also included in the program were works by Maria Alos, Animal Charm, Torsten Zenas Burns, Kara Crombie, Gerald Davis, Peter Eudenbach, Brian Frye, Neil Goldberg, Ronit Kirchman, George Kuchar, Heidi Siedlecki, and Jud Yalkut. Jaraf is presented at 45 Below, downtown Manhattan.
Clouin's "Honey Bunny" (1999) were screened October 26 and 28 at Barcelona's Palacio del Cinema during the Festival Internacional de Cinema Gay i Lesbic. The festival ran October 19 - 28.
Clouin's "Flying Sculpture" (2000) was screened in a program of French video at the Unimovie festival in Pescara, Italy, October 3-7.
Clouin's "Flying Sculpture" (2000) was also presented in a video program curated by Heure Exquise! at Serbia 2000, the Video Media Festival of Novi Sad, September 26-28, in Belgrade.
Clouin's "Insert" (2000, photo), "Broom Ballet" (2000), and "Front Room" (1996) were presented in a program of French video art at the 13th Videobrasil Electronic Art International Festival in São Paulo, September 19-23.
Clouin's "Shadow Box" (2000) and "Flying Sculpture" (2000) were screened in the international competition at the Cinematexas International Short Film and Video Festival in Austin, Texas, September 14-23.
Clouin's "Flying Sculpture" (2000) and "Built to Survive" (2001) were screened at the 15th Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie in Moncton, Canada, September 21-27.
Chicago Filmmakers presented Clouin's "Built to Survive" (2001) -- in its world premier -- at the opening screening of the Onion City Film and Video Festival, Chicago, Illinois. The festival ran from September 14 to 16.
Heure Exquise! screened Clouin's "Workman" (1998) in a program of video art June 23-27, in the Media ArtLab Forum at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival, June 21-30. "Workman" received the New Visions Video Silver Spire Award in the Golden Gate Awards competition at the 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival.
Clouin's "Kangaroo" (1998) was presented at ART Basel, Switzerland, June 12 to 18, in the VIPER International Festival for Film, Video and New Media's VideoGallery. For information on VIPER's VideoGallery program, contact VideoGallery Coordinator Ruth Schnederle.
Clouin's "The Final Touch" (2000, photo) screened in its New York premier in the program "Out in the Open" 
at the 13th New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, held May 31 to June 10 at The New School's Tishman Auditorium and the NYU Cantor Film Center.
Pierre Yves Clouin presented a program of his video work during a special screening at the Galerie eof in Paris on April 7.
The Images Festival in Toronto has premiered another of Clouin's new works, "The Anti-Social Elevator" (2000). The Images Festival ran from April 12-22.
Clouin's "The Final Touch" (2000) and "Shadow Box" (2000) -- in its North American premier -- was screened at Thaw 01, the Sixth Annual Festival of Film, Video, and Digital Media, March 29 to 31, at the Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
São Paulo's Mix Brasil festival was on the road again in March. Clouin's "Honey Bunny" (1999) was screened in the festival's "Body and Art" program at the Humberto Mauro Auditorium, Palace of the Arts, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Clouin's "My Levitating Butt" (1997) and "The Little Big" (1999) were screened at the Cinéma L'Entrepôt during the Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, which was held in locations throughout Paris from March 2-16. The festival played June 6-17 in Berlin, where Clouin's works were screened at the Brotfabrik and at Aroma.
London's Lux Center of Film, Video and Digital Arts premiered Clouin's "Shadow Box" (2000) during the third Pandæmonium Biennial, March 1-9. "Shadow Box" screened on March 2 and 5 in the "Living Dead" program in the festival's Open Submissions section.
"Dragged Out: A Studied Glance at Current Radical Drag," a program curated by Ger Zielinski for Toronto's Pleasure Dome in July 1999 that includes Clouin's "Cowboy" and "Diana, Texas," was screened February 10 at Video In Studios, Vancouver.
The CJC/Cinédif gave Clouin carte blanche for an evening at La Clef-Images d'ailleurs in Paris. Besides his own works, Clouin presented videos by Steve Reinke, Torsten Zenas Burns, Benoît Gales, Joe Sola, and others on February 1.
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For the 43rd Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film, the French Institute celebrated 15 years of French video art with a screening series entitled Vidéo/Je Vois at the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, November 27 through December 1. The program curated by Heure Exquise! featured 40 works, including Clouin's "Workman" (1998, photo), winner of the Golden Gate New Visions Silver Spire Award at the 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival.
Pierre Yves Clouin's "Flying Sculpture" (2000, photo) screened in the international competition at the 9th Biennial of Moving Images, organized by the Center for Contemporary Images Saint-Gervais Genève, in Geneva, Switzerland, November 2-10. In its ninth edition, the film and video competition showcased 56 works from 46 countries.
Curated for New York's Anthology Film Archives by Astria Suparak, "Dirges and Sturgeons" premiered in October 2001. The program included work by Animal Charm, Lawrence Elbert, Bjorn Melhus, Pierre Yves Clouin, Jacqueline Goss, Miranda July, Seth Price, and others.
Clouin's "The Little Big" (1999, photo), selected for Sundance 2001, was featured in the show.
For information on the program, see astriasuparak.com.
"Where does video stand today as a fine art? Every two years the New Arts Programbrings you an update of what artists around the world are doing outside commercial video life." - NAP
The 2001 "cream of the art form," selected by NAP jurors Mary Lucier, Ann Borin, and Ann-Sargent Wooster, included Pierre Yves Clouin's "Shadow Box" (2000, photo), as well as works by Van McElwee, Marie-France Giraudon & Emmanuel Avenel, Fred Levy, Dennis Summers, Thomas Fleisch, Takahik Iimura, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Gene Gort, and Paul Kaup. After opening at the NAP Exhibition Space in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, September 7 to October 27, 2001, the show toured the northeastern United States.
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"Pierre Yves Clouin's 'The Little Big' employs the cinematic frame and a shrewd manipulation of perspective to explore the human body's abstract and illusory possibilities."
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Pierre Yves Clouin's "The Little Big" (1999) screened in the Frontier Shorts program of experimental work at the Sundance Film Festival 2001. For more complete information on Sundance 2001, check out the festival's Online Resource Center, via the Sundance homepage. For program notes, see the Sundance Frontier Shorts Film Guide . Download Clouin's Sundance press kit in PDF. (requires Acrobat Reader 4, available free here). ("The Little Big" is distributed by Heure Exquise!) |
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