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Born in France in 1953. As a teacher in the United States, he became conscious of the need to lead a "cultural battle". Filmmaker and film critic, he organizes experimental cinema events in France and other countries. After his film and philosophy studies, he became very influenced by contemporary art (Russian formalism and minimal structuralism) and learned music, as well as by his friendship with Paul Sharits. He strives to find a balance between formalism and lyricism. He himself explains that the common denominator between all his films is that they are all constructed according to the principle : "fragility" - "disappearance" - "disintegration". In 1982 he co-founds Light Cone with Miles McKane. Among others he has published: Musique film with Deke Dusinberre (1986), "Mots: dites, image" with Miles McKane (1988), Poussières d'images (1998) and finally, "Monter/Sampler" with J.-M. Bouhours (2000).
Most Popular Yann Beauvais Trailers
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01 January 1983
"It is above all a portrait of Miles McKane. Making a portrait, shooting a portrait are all modes of perpetuating/appropriating a person's image.
18 October 1986
VO/ID juxtaposes two separate texts, one in French and the other in English. The texts question art and experimental cinema, the role of the market in shaping aesthetic criteria, and current politics.
21 May 2011
Film boundaries explore the garden geometry of the royal paths at Versailles, wandering among gilded statues and dry fountains.
25 October 2023
Filmed in August 1997, in the New South Wales, then left to decay for several years in other tropical climates, before being scanned and finally edited in Recife in 2023.
01 January 1982
In Éliclipse, postcard images of Parisian landmarks are cut into vertical bands; every other stripes
26 November 2023
The riots in France in June and July 23, following the murder of Nahel Merzouk by a police officer at point-blank range, are reminiscent of those in 2005, and once again demonstrate the systemic racism of the French state.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
01 January 1988
This film places side by side the mirrored image of an installation/performance, by the artist Miles McKane.
01 January 1986
Amoroso takes up the question of memory concomitant with the filmed diary. A memory of Rome, a memory of Tivoli but also a memory of Kenneth Anger's Tivoli, this sequence could be a tribute or a snub.
01 January 1982
Disjet uses the movement of an anonymous figure in isolated environments to examine metaphysical journeys through the landscapes of the mind.
01 January 1980
Either the meter: unit of measure. Either the frame: space time unit within the film strip. Either 24fps: speed unit of the apparatus.
06 May 1997
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.
01 January 2008
The winter Place Sqaure. Two cameras spinning, at the sound of musicians from an orchestra tuning their instrument.
01 January 2004
“Reading Rimbaud today means to relate his experiences, his desires, to ours – it means that we see a strong connection between his quest and what is today at stake in gay issues.
01 March 1999
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).
04 June 2014
Rioting in different countries is confronted within the discourse of some politicians perpetuating the same old colonialisms and responses to a world they don’t understand any longer.
01 January 1985
Mainly sketches of different places crossed: the United States, Versailles and Paris. The film ends with a sculpture by Miles McKane.
04 June 1991
A trip to Riga and Moscow in the fall of 90. Confrontation between the reality of the places and a cinematographic memory of some of these same places.
01 January 2006
Remarks on the recent war in Lebanon.
17 February 2019
DERRUBADA NÃO! is a film essay deploying a reflection via an experiment whose objective is to measure the impact of an artistic gesture that crystallizes a set of questions relating to what can be defined as belonging: an ethnic group, a history, a language, a culture.
01 January 1978
Extract taken from the longer diary dealing with United States in the summer of '78.
01 January 1993
Initial situation: models were invited to participate in their portrait by the contribution of personal objects and a great freedom of expression before the camera.
01 January 2001
“How should we describe a work such as TU, SEMPRE by Yann Beauvais? Visually, it consists of roughly 40 minutes of videotext in movement and arrest, largely white text varying in size on a black background, interspersed with a small number of images; its audio is a dirge of drone music by Thomas Köner punctuated by voice-overs by several individuals, sometimes one at a time, sometimes several at once.
01 January 2009
In December 2008, before the new elected President of United States become the President, Israel lauches an attack over Gaza, under the pretext of rockets fallen on its territory.
12 April 1984
Reel 33 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
01 January 2006
Study of the Mont Sainte Victoire.
01 January 1984
"...the Arc de Triomphe. Among many variations offered, we have selected about thirty which were cut vertically, horizontally and diagonally.
01 January 1987
This film is a series of shot or found sequences (about, of cities that I frequent) which, in the editing, display a fluidity and continuity eluding narration.
01 January 1978
Mis en pièces means in French taking into pieces, but it could mean to set up a play, or to deconstruct a play.
01 January 1991
A found footage film about the war. A film which inscribed his refusal of the manipulation of the media coverage of the last holy war of the American and their allies.
01 January 1989
A pile of cuties. Fashion and its code somehow shaken.
01 January 2008
"Take the path >>>>Still Life>>>> Hezraellah >>>>> of a curfew>>>>> exonerating affection"
– Edsos
05 June 2020
A Cinetract about a pandemic.
01 January 1978
The is the first filmed diary made by Yann Beauvais.
31 December 2010
A short trip to Buffalo in order to show some of my works, invited by Paul Sharits.
01 January 1984
A single-screen version of the Portraits / Mirrors multi-projection. Featuring portraits of: Aloual, Gaël Badaud, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Gérard Courant, Berndt Deprez, Bertrand Gadenne, Mythia Kolésar, Christian Lebrat, Stéphane Marti, Pascal Martin, Michel Nedjar, Dominique Noguez, Vivian Ostrovsky, Bernard Roué, Martine Rousset, Alain Sayag, Unglee, and Catherine Zbinden.
01 January 2006
about a curfew 2006, color, sound, 9'40
01 January 1977
Trap for the voyeur, his expectations are thwarted each time, disappointed and yet he always hopes...
01 February 2003
"The film is a travelogue of sorts. In 1960 my family lived in Brazil when my father discovered his sister and brother in Moscow, who he hadn't seen for 40 years, were still alive.
20 January 2024
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging war in retaliation for Operation Al Aqsa. The scale of this war and the massacres being carried out are taking on proportions that make it a genocide that does not speak its name.
01 January 2005
A three-part film.
07 October 2025
For around fifteen years, I have been filming a forest of imburana de cambão trees that has been progressively disappearing, located on the border between the states of Bahia and Pernambuco.
15 November 1976
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.
01 January 2024
Trailer for the XV Janela Festival in Recife. A nod to a few films from the history of experimental cinema that may have gone off the rails.
01 January 1989
First sketch of a new work featuring the movement of objects and devices. From one screen to another, without changing platforms, we change trains or boats.
01 January 1975
A condensation of my philosophy master that I had written between 1974 and 1975.
My first film as text.
01 January 1985
RR uses musical models as a paradigm. The central part of each section of the film is based on a transcription of a Bach composition for two voices.
12 April 2018
An activist piece dealing with the Palestinians' right to exist. Gaza, March-April 2018.
01 January 1991
With QUATRE UN we are in the presence of four images (from the film R) each of which reflects the adjacent one, horizontally and vertically.
01 January 2023
Result of a slow decomposition of 16mm prints of QUATR'UN in Recife. One set was scanned frame by frame and cropped to include the perforations.
