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English title |
Front
Room |
| Orignal title |
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| Length |
1:27 |
| Year of production |
1996 |
| Country of production |
France |
| Premier |
Paris, France,
1996 |
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Synopsis |
I serve myself
a piece of ass. |
Awards
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1997 - Third Prize, 8th Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage,
Hamburg, Germany
1998 - Third Prize Experimental,
NAP Video Festival, New Arts Program, Pennsylvania, USA. Juried by Pooh Kaye, Joan Logue, Ann-Sargent
Wooster |
| Collections |
Long Beach Museum of Art Contemporary Video Archive,
Long Beach, California, USA |
Distribution
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 "Boys Briefs: Award-winning films
about gay first love"
PictureThis! Home Video
Los Angeles, California, USA
E-mail: gaypicture@aol.com
Available on DVD and VHS (NTSC
only) from TLAVideo.com
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Televison
broadcasts
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1999 - "Switch 2," presented by Claire Doutriaux and
Paul Ouazan, L'Atelier de Recherche de La Sept Arte, ARTE, France-Germany |
views
| reviews
"The two
most erotic minutes ever filmed. A completely uncensored look
at gay first love."
"Boys Briefs:
Award-Winning Short Films about Gay First Love" Picture
This! Entertainment Home Video, USA, 1999 |
"Finding
satisaction where you can."
Mardi Gras Film Festival
1997, Queer Screen, Sydney, Australia |
"The tight
framing of Pierre Yves Clouin's manically-paced 'Front Room'
playfully begs the question: what body part is getting such loving
attention?"
9th New York Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival 1997, The New Festival, New York City,
New York, USA |
"Video
as an artform that makes a statement."
10th Stockholms Homofilmfestival
1997, Stockholm, Sweden |
"Our hero
serves himself a lip-smacking feast. Wouldn't you?"
Outfest, 15th Los
Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 1997, Los Angeles, California,
USA |
"One possible
response-even if it is the least amusing-to anxieties linked
to sex in the age of AIDS. 'Front Room' invites us, as intrigued
voyeurs, to decipher the anatomical appurtenance of the body
with which the protagonist is having impassioned sexual relations:
breast? arm? nipple? ass? back? thigh? A mystery that evanesces
like a bubble of saliva on contact with the tongue..."
Blowing Bubbles,
International Video Competition on AIDS, 1997, Bologna, Italy |
"Clouin
is the master of innuendo and metamorphose. His minute waltz
is set to an insistent beat. We see a male mouth lovingly licking
and caressing naked flash. Have we stumbled onto a bit of hard-core
erotica? Keep in mind when you watch this performance piece what
you think you see may not be what you get."
Ann-Sargent Wooster,
NAP Video Festival '98, New Arts Program, Pennsylvania, USA |
"'The
tit near my lips is a bubble of spittle that vanishes with a
lick. The breast becomes a buttock, slim and alluring. I serve
myself a piece of ass.' So says Paris filmmaker Pierre Yves Clouin
of his short 'Front Room.' Screened in festivals from New York
to Sydney, Clouin playfully begs the question, 'What body part
is getting such loving attention?'"
Victoria Independent
Film & Video Festival 1998, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
"This
is the sort of video that makes fools out of censor boards."
MicroCineFest '98,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
"Provocative
and unsettling, this is work that delights in dissent. [...]
These videos have one common urge: to upset expectations about
desire."
Sarah Turner, "Queer
Discord - Dissenting Voices in Queer Culture" program notes,
1997, Lux Centre for Film, Video + Digital Arts, London, UK |
selected
exhibitions
| 2000 |
"Corps
Accords," program curated by Patrice Allain, Vidéoz'Arts,
Nantes, France |
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Retina
2000, Sellye
& Budapest, Hungary, in program curated by Gabriel Soucheyre |
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Forcement
Contemporain, Three
Days of Contemporary Music, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Performance
of original music composed for works by video artists Pierre-Yves
Clouin and Reynald Drouhin. Co-produced by the Comédie
de Clermont-Ferrand - Scène Nationale and the Ensemble
InterContemporain |
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1999 |
"Switch
2," presented by Claire Doutriaux and Paul Ouazan, L'Atelier
de la Sept ARTE, France-Germany, at Les Instants Video de Manosque,
Manosque, France |
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Videoarchaeology
/ Sofia-Paris Video 1, presented by HO at Centre Culturel Français
and American Center, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Pervoplanet,
8th Turku Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Turku, Finland |
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4th
International Festival of New Film Split, Split, Croatia |
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Festivale
Vid@rte, Mexico City, Mexico, in "Tendancias," curated
by Gabriel Soucheyre |
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"Spécial
Pierre Yves Clouin," curated by Gabriel Soucheyre in "Le
Tout à l'Ego," organized by Le Mas and CICV Pierre
Shaeffer, Montpellier, France |
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N.A.P.
Video Festival '98, Pennsylvania, continues at Allentown Art
Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania;
The Kitchen Center for Video, Music and Dance, New York City,
New York, USA |
| 1998 |
offline@online,
French-Baltic-Nordic Video & New Media Festival, Estonian
Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia |
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11èmes
Instants Vidéos de Manosque, Manosque, France |
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16th
Annual Central Florida Film & Video Festival, Frameworks
Alliance, Orlando, Melbourne, and Gainesville, Florida, USA |
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22nd
Annual Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
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Taos
Talking Picture Festival, Taos, New Mexico, USA |
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N.A.P.
Video Festival '98, New Arts Program, Pennsylvania, USA, at Museum
of American Art, Philadelphia; University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma; TZ'Art & Co. Gallery, New York City, New York;
and Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania |
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The
Fourth Annual Victoria International Film & Video Festival,
Victoria,British Columbia, Canada |
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13èmes
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
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MIX
Mexico 98 - Segundo Festival de Diversidad Sexual en Cine y Video,
Mexico City, Mexico |
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"Independant
Exposure: All-Erotic," Blackchair Productions, Seattle,
Washington, USA, at The Speakeasy Backroom, Seattle, Washington,
and Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, California |
| 1997 |
Blowing
Bubbles, V Edizione, Videomakers contro l'AIDS/International
Video Competition on AIDS, Bologna, Italy |
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"Queer
Discord - Dissenting Voices in Queer Culture," curated by
Sarah Turner, The Lux Centre for Film, Video + Digital Arts,
London, UK |
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HUFF
3, Honolulu Underground Film Festival, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
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Reeling
'97, 17th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival,
Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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5th
MiX Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity 97, São Paulo,
Brazil |
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ostranenie
97 - The International Electronic Media Forum, Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation, Dessau, Germany |
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19e
Festival International du Film Indépendant / 7e Mondial
de la Vidéo, Brussels, Belgium |
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Out
the Way, Western Australia Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Perth,
Australia |
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Pervoplanet,
6th Turku Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Turku, Finland |
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8th
Lesbisch-Schwule Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany |
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Outfest,
15th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles,
California, USA |
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10th
Stockholms Homofilmfestival, Stockholm, Sweden |
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"Schrill
& Billich - The Trash Nite," 13th International Hamburg
Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany |
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9th
New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, The New Festival, New
York City, New York, USA |
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5th
International Forum of Audiovisual and Multimedia Art, Bandits-Mages,
Bourges, France |
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European
Media Art Festival 1997, Osnabruck, Germany |
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THAW
97, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
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11th
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute,
London, UK |
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The
Mardi Gras Film Festival, Queer Screen, Sydney, Australia |
| 1996 |
3ème
Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris, Paris, France |
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