Pierre-Yves Cruaud
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Montpellier France |
Contact Type: Artist |
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Bio:
Pierre-Yves Cruaud was born in Brittany, France in 1973. After having studied film and before concentrating on experimental video, Pierre-Yves worked on several short films as a scriptwriter, director and editor. The past few years have been a period of intense creativity with the production of a dozen works revealing his visions of world, personal and profound, distressing but not contemporary society. His videos have been presented at a number of contemporary art venues and film festivals where he’s received a number of awards. Pierre-Yves is currently working on new projects including a feature film. Filmography/Awards Info: Filmography Under the Eyelids of Sam F. (Sous les paupières de Sam F.) 2003 Living Lights (Vivantes lueurs), 2003 Stoned Glaze (Regard de pierre) 2002 Rec 2002 Lettre première 2001 In Construction (En travraux) 2001 Silence in Motion (Le silence est en marche) 2001 Images 2001 The Hotel of Reproducible Lives (L'hôtel des vies reproductibles) 2000 False Solitude (Fausse Solitude) 2000 Awards (selection) Best video art production at the Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy, 2003. The experimental short film award, Cabbagetown Festival, Canada, 2002 Jury award, Oeiras Film Festival, Portugal, 2002 Award for Best Creation (Grand Prix de la création vidéo 2002), Vidéoformes Festival, France, 2002 Special Mention, Audiovisual Festival Competition of Navarra, Spain, 2002 Research Film Award (Prix du Film de recherche), International Festival of Aubagne, France, 2002 Rétina award, Rétina Festival, Sellye, Hungary, 2002 TV Catalonia Award, Festival Estavar-Llivia, France, 2001 Passages (Installation) Format : MiniDV Duration : 20 min Date : 2003 Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud The video installation « Passages » evokes the difficulty that we have in generating and storing stable mental images. Visual souvenirs appear as signs and then disappear with the passing of time. Facial images come and go as the gallery of human portraits fails to find a permanent home. The eventual extinction of these faces is a testimony of our failure to act as image receptacles. Setting up the installation Consisting of four video tracks and a single soundtrack, this installation can be set up in a private setting. The installation requires a room in complete darkness. The installation requires four video screens of the same size, 4 DVD players and four copies of the DVD EYESHIFT in order to launch the four video loops at the same time. It is recommended that identical models of DVD players are used in order to keep the loops in perfect sync. A minimum of 3 meters of spacing is required between the screens , which should be ideally placed at eye level. The viewer can then move around the interior of the space created by the four screens. Living Lights (Vivantes lueurs) Format : MiniDV Duration : 10 min Date : 2003 Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Living Lights (Vivantes lueurs) is linked to the question of when does the actual birth of images take place. Hundreds of photographs more or less well defined were used in making this film. The slow process of making these images appear includes the use of a video system that focuses on the development of light. The video stream operates the appearance of these images, the light feeds their existence and becomes a sculpture in it’s own right. The light beams attempt to extract the presence of human shapes. The birth of these images recalls the birth of a story, the desire of fiction to be seen… Under the Eyelids of Sam F. (Sous les paupières de Sam F.) Format : MiniDV Duration : 10 min Date : 2003 Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud This video, made specially for the DVD, was inspired by the life of the painter Sam Francis who interrupted his studies in 1943 to become a fighter pilot in the US Air Force. Several months later, he is wounded in an accident and is immobilized for a year. It’s at this moment in his life that he discovers painting. Cruaud’s video homage conjures up souvenirs of an airplane accident based on fictional, light, random, and abstract stimuli received by the painter’s eyes during his period of recovery. This mode of perception was certainly a vital contributor to the work of Sam Francis as an artist. False Solitude (Fausse Solitude) Format : MiniDV Duration : 5 min 40 Date : 2000 Acting : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Through False Solitude (Fausse solitude) Pierre-Yves Cruaud focuses on the concept of speed as a contemporary. He tries in vain to resist an urban environment warped by an unliveable pace of living. The visual illusion of a centrifugical force removes him from the represented space, a struggle doomed to failure begins… The film questions the identity of the man and the act of resistance he represents. Speed imposes itself as the official and absurd motive of a fight between the stare of the man and the stare of the machine (camera). The Hotel of Reproducible Lives (L’hôtel des vies reproductibles) Format : MiniDV Duration : 3 min 10 Date : 2000 Acting: Nathalie Degouzon, Pierre-Yves Cruaud Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud The private lives of two individuals are revealed in front of a surveillance camera hidden in a hotel room. Society is arrested within a device revealing the standardization of our lifestyles. The film questions the role of the camera as witness. The camera progressively attempts to approach an individual by moving further forward within the interior of a hotel with no façade… Images Format : MiniDV Duration : 3 min 50 Date : 2001 Acting : Nathalie Degouzon Voice : Mélissa Holt Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Two points of view from a unique series of scenes are presented within two distinct frames. Sculptures take on life while a human face attempts to place itself between them. A movement vibrating to various rhythms crosses the two screens provoking the images to scintillate. The images appear and disappear under effects of the light in motion. We witness a struggle between memory and the disappearance of these images. Are we closer to the images or to the fading of these images? Silence in Motion (Le silence est en marche) Format : MiniDV Duration : 3 min 30 Date : 2001 Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Silence in Motion defines a zone of community life within fragmented borders, defined by the white lines on the screen. This film, shot from the Tate Modern in London, develops a proposition, of evolving shapes in a controlled space that offer no evolutionary alternative asides from that which has been programmed by a society under control. The sonic rhythm coming from scratches off an LP record creates a promise of clamour. Will the voices be heard? In Construction (En Travaux) Format : MiniDV Duration : 2 min Date : 2001 Sound : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud The black virgin surface of the screen gives way to a series of images and sounds coming from scenes of the edification of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. A variety of images (scaffolding, pipes…) are sampled, cut-up and then isolated from their original form with the video editing technique involving them being welded back together. The energy of the sonic impacts serves as a cement fixing together the fragmented images. The assembly of the images tells the story of the building of this site and takes the form of a mental and rhythmic object. Stoned Glaze (Regard de pierre) Format : MiniDV Duration : 6 min 15 Date : 2002 Son : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Image : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Editing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud Directing : Pierre-Yves Cruaud A plan is organized around the search for a matrixed image; it’s also the story of a vision out of sync, lost in its quest. The films evoke the difficulty that we come across in articulating thoughts once they’ve escaped their original frame of expression. It’s the second film by Pierre-Yves in which sculptures are invited to play and where they take us on a tour of their intimate and secret world. This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. 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