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English title |
The
Bleating Calf |
| Orignal title |
C'est
le veau qui bêle |
| Length |
1:15 |
| Year of production |
1995 |
| Country of production |
France |
| Premier |
Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK, 1996 |
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Synopsis |
My self-portrait as a calf, but a calf that bleats. |
Awards
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1996 - Highlight, Videonale 7, Bonn, Germany
1997 - Prix DRAC Auvergne
(Auvergne Regional Department of Cultural Affairs, French Ministry of Culture), Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| Collections |
- Long Beach Museum of Art Contemporary Video Archive, Long Beach, California, USA
- Le Parvis, Contemporary Art Center, Tarbes, France |
| Distribution |
Heure Exquise! |
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
"Clouin
knows the value of time. In this one-line sight gag, an out of
focus close-up of the artist's head making the baby-like cries
of a calf is a wonderful, yet eerie piece of visual sleight of
hand that successfully transforms the artist from human to animal."
Ann-Sargent Wooster,
NAP Video Festival '97, New Arts Program, Pennsylvania, USA |
"Portrait
of the young artist as a calf. In this video Clouin plays a prank
on his own image and the spectator, thumbs his nose at physionomy
and (perhaps) at those who take themselves too seriously. The
power of mystifications: after watching this image, wide-eyed,
a few dozen seconds, one eventually believes it's that of a genuine
calf."
Roberto Chiesi, La
Cappelletta d'Oro Concorso Internazionale Video, 1997, Alassio,
Italy |
"There
is a calf; it bleats."
IMAGES Festival of
Independent Film and Video, 1997, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
"Provocative
and unsettling, this is work that delights in dissent. [...]
These videos have one common urge: to upset expectations about
desire."
Sarah Turner, program
notes "Queer Discord: Dissenting Voices in Queer Culture,"
1997, Lux Centre for Film, Video + Digital Arts, London, UK |
selected
exhibitions
| 1999 |
"Switch
2," presented by Claire Doutriaux and Paul Ouazan, L'Atelier
de la Sept ARTE, France-Germany, at Les Instants Vidéo
de Manosque, Manosque, France |
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WOX 4, L'Echangeur,
Paris, France |
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Videoarchaeology
/ Sofia-Paris Video 1, International Exhibition of Video Art,
Sofia, Bulgaria |
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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 |
| 1998 |
offline@online,
French-Baltic-Nordic Video & New Media Festival, Estonian
Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia |
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All Over the
Map, L.A. Freewaves 1998, 6th Celebration of Independent Video
and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California,
USA |
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4èmes
Rencontres Arts Electroniques, Université de Rennes 2,
Rennes, France |
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"Independent
Exposure: All-Foreign," Blackchair Productions, at Artist's
Television Access, San Francisco, California; The Speakeasy Backroom,
Seattle, Washington; Knitting Factory Video Lounge, New York
City, New York |
| 1997 |
"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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10èmes
Instants Vidéo de Manosque, Manosque, France |
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La Cappelletta
d'Oro, Concorso Internazionale Video - 13a edizione, Alassio,
Italy |
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5th International
Forum of Audiovisual and Multimedia Art, Bandits-Mages, Bourges,
France |
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24th Athens International
Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA |
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10th IMAGES Independent
Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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12èmes
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
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Short Circuit,
The Third Annual Victoria International Short Film & Video
Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
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NAP Video Festival
'97, New Arts Program, Pennsylvania, USA, at Museum of American
Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fred Jones Art Center, Norman,
Oklahoma; TZ'Art & Co. Gallery, New York City, New York;
Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; and Lafayette College
Art Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania. Juried by Beryl Korot, Tony
Oursler, Ann-Sargent Wooster |
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The Mardi Gras
Film Festival, Sydney, Australia |
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10th Stuttgarter
Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1996 |
MIX 96, 10th
New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, New
York City, New York, USA |
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7th Lesbisch-Schwule
Filmtage, Hamburg, Germany |
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Vidéobouyawash
#3, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon, France |
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Third International
Festival of Audiovisual Culture, New Visions, Glasgow, Scotland,
UK |
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Videonale 7,
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany |
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European Media
Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany |
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THAW 96, University
of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA |
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Edinburgh's 11th
Fringe Film and Video Festival, Scotland, UK |
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