Yann Beauvais

Cinématon

Gérard Courant

Gérard Courant, Alain-Alcide Sudre

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.

Éliclipse

Yann Beauvais

In Éliclipse, postcard images of Parisian landmarks are cut into vertical bands; every other stripe of the image is replaced with a corresponding stripe from another postcard image, resulting in the blend of the figuration of the two images

R

Yann Beauvais

R is a very simple film, flickering and panning which in its silence induces a fugue of rhythms. The center part of the film is a transcription of one of J.S. Bach ’s Invention.

Sans titre 84

Yann Beauvais

Très rare film

Yann Beauvais

The is the first filmed diary made by Yann Beauvais.

Tas de beaux gosses

Yann Beauvais

A pile of cuties. Fashion and its code somehow shaken.

Journaux 1983-1985

Yann Beauvais

Mainly sketches of different places crossed: the United States, Versailles and Paris. The film ends with a sculpture by Miles McKane.

Spin

Edson Barrus, Yann Beauvais

Edson Barrus, Yann Beauvais

The winter Place Sqaure. Two cameras spinning, at the sound of musicians from an orchestra tuning their instrument.

Fugue chromatique

Yann Beauvais

Temps de mètre

Yann Beauvais

Either the meter: unit of measure. Either the frame: space time unit within the film strip. Either 24fps: speed unit of the apparatus. Either the screen: canvas without retina, the meter at it’s square. Either the projection: the meter taken to its cube. The sum total of these units produces its meaning. Abstract value or short essay on communication, the meter dictates, tires us by its arrogance, its relentlessness. The tacit agreement is what is at stake in this film whose screening at the limit is superfluous. In this sense it also questions the measure of the maitre.

Stop-danger-sens-unique-interdit

Yann Beauvais

29 10 88

Yann Beauvais

This film places side by side the mirrored image of an installation/performance, by the artist Miles McKane. Rather than documenting the piece, the film tries to restitute the spatial dimensions which occurred in the original piece. The participants movements and the panoramic metaphorically reproduce the base element of the installation, namely the white cone.

Still Life

Yann Beauvais

This film considers the subject of HIV and AIDS from a variety of different viewpoints. On the one hand using textual material in both English and French which appears on screen at different speeds and rhythms, and on the other, articulated by the appearance of human voice on the sound track. It is a story of a person confronted with a civilization which promotes death as a way of life.

Work and Progress

Vivian Ostrovsky, Yann Beauvais

A trip to Russia by two filmmakers in 1990, forms the bulk of this twin-screen projection, finished some 9 years later; Their super-8 footage mixed in with archival material (and a sprinkling of the classics such as Vertov and Eisenstein).

Disjet

Yann Beauvais

Disjet uses the movement of an anonymous figure in isolated environments to examine metaphysical journeys through the landscapes of the mind.

Homovie

Yann Beauvais

Trap for the voyeur, his expectations are thwarted each time, disappointed and yet he always hopes...