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English title |
The
Little Big |
| Orignal title |
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| Length |
3:38 |
| Year of production |
1999 |
| Country of production |
France |
| Premier |
New York City,
New York, USA, 1999 |
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Synopsis |
There are things
colossal in things small. |
Further information
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"The
Little Big" was screened in the Frontier Shorts program
of experimental film and video at the Sundance Film Festival
2001. Download Pierre Yves Clouin's Sundance press
kit in PDF (requires Acrobat Reader 4, available free here). |
views
| reviews
"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."
Shannon Kelly, program
notes "Shorts on the Frontier," Sundance Film Festival
2001, Park City, Utah, USA |
"Every crease and surface
of the human body has erotic potential in the work of Pierre
Yves Clouin. With only details of unidentifiable flesh to ponder,
sexual tension vibrates between the screen and the audience's
collective imagination. The answer to the question 'Is that his...or
his...?' is kept out of reach, drawing the viewer into a mind-body-camera
menage-à-trois with no climax."
Cinematexas 5, International
Short Film + Video Festival 2000, Austin, Texas, USA |
"A
witty and provocative homoerotic short film suggesting that there
are indeed things colossal in things small."
"OutLook"
program notes, 45th Cork Film Festival, 2000, Cork City, Ireland |
"France's
wry commentator on the human form shows that a pinch is all it
takes!"
Outfest, Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2000, Los Angeles, California,
USA |
"...some
of the most formally beautiful and innovative works of film and
video art on the contemporary scene. These bold experiments blend
gender representations with other cultural and aesthetic impressions
to create works of profound originality. Whether challenging
the limitations of narrative or sublimely lending new insight
to familiar images, these artists burnish the silver screen to
a lustrous platinum sheen with their daring and creativity."
"Platinum Festival
Series" program notes, Outfest, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian
Film Festival, 2000, Los Angeles, California, US |
"These
four videos by French artist Pierre Yves Clouin are wonderfully
odd conceptual works."
Patrick Friel, program
notes "Fade Out: New Video, Part Two," Chicago Filmmakers
Exhibition Series, 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
"This
is one of the strongest video programs I've ever seen; almost
all the works present lush, sensuous imagery within a coherent
structure that expresses the theme... Each of Pierre Yves Clouin's
four witty homoerotic pieces explores a single concept: in 'Kangaroo'
(1998), fingers seem to emerge from, rather than enter, an anus..."
Fred Camper, "Critic's
Choice 'Fade Out: New Video, Part Two,'" Chicago Reader,
25 Feb. - 2 March, 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
"The
international master of video body imagery has a puzzle for you:
name those curves!"
MIX NYC, 13th New
York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, 1999,
New York City, New York, USA |
selected
exhibitions
| 2001 |
Sundance
Film Festival, Frontier Shorts Program, Park City, Utah, USA |
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14th
Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival and Exhibition of Expanded Media,
Stuttgart, Germany |
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2000 |
"Corps
Accords," program curated by Patrice Allain, Vidéoz'Arts,
Nantes, France |
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45th
Murphy's Cork Film Festival, Cork City, Ireland |
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Cinematexas
5, 2000 International Short Film + Video Festival, Austin Texas,
USA |
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"Oculation:
Rogue Emissions in the Dark, Film and Video for a Synthetic Society,"
curated by Rajendra Roy and Anie S8 Stanley at Ars Electronica
2000: NEXT SEX - Sex in the Age of its Procreative Superfluousness,
Ars Electronica Center, Museum of the Future, Linz, Austria |
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Outfest
2000, "Platinum Shorts," The 18th Los Angeles Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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12th
Annual New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Festival,
New York City, New York, USA |
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MIX
National Touring Program, presented by MIX New York Lesbian and
Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA |
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10th
Annual Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Queer
City Cinema 2000, Third Biannual Lesbian and Gay Film and Video
Festival, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Mix
Mexico, Cuarto Festival de Diversidad Sexual en Cine y Video,
Mexico City, Mexico |
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"Fade
Out: New Video Part Two," Chicago Filmmakers Exhibition
Series, curated by Patrick Friel, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago,
Illinois, USA |
| 1999 |
MIX
NYC, 13th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video
Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, NY, USA |
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