Yann Beauvais

Néantir (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. Drawing on a variety of source ...

enough (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. Scenes plundered from various new ...

EVANESCENT NSW (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. A fog partially covering a tropical forest. When I seized these elements twenty years ...

DKR 4395 (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. Dissolution of the frame and mimetic representation in time. ...

co vid e (2020)

A Cinetract about a pandemic. ...

Derrubada não! (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 langua ...

basta (2018)

An activist piece dealing with the Palestinians' right to exist. Gaza, March-April 2018. ...

Schismes (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. ...

Entre-deux-mondes (2011)

Film boundaries explore the garden geometry of the royal paths at Versailles, wandering among gilded statues and dry fountains. Nostalgia for bygone splendor is interrupted by a list of rules describing the married life of slaves. By confronting image and ...

Meeting Paul in Buffalo (2010)

A short trip to Buffalo in order to show some of my works, invited by Paul Sharits. ...

WARONGAZA (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. This cease-fire rupture answered an attack of Israel which had killed six co ...

Spin (2008)

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

Affection Exonerate (2008)

"Take the path >>>>Still Life>>>> Hezraellah >>>>> of a curfew>>>>> exonerating affection" – Edson Barrus ...

About a curfew (2006)

about a curfew 2006, color, sound, 9'40 ...

Hezraelah (2006)

Remarks on the recent war in Lebanon. ...

, d’ailleurs (2006)

Study of the Mont Sainte Victoire. ...

Nikita Kino (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. Since they couldn't leave the USSR we went to visit them regularly for abou ...

Tu, Sempre (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 a ...

Work and Progress (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). ...

Still Life (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 appearan ...

New York Long Distance (1994)

A film about my relationship to New York since 1962. It deals with the distance between a memory and the image of this memory, a distance one always tries to abolish. In this personal film we see the images of a city from a close distance, with autobiograp ...

We've Got the Red Blues (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. ...

Soft Collisions Dream of a Good Soldier (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. No image of that war which was also a media propagandist war. An evocation against the s ...

Spetsai (1989)

Tas de beaux gosses (1989)

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

Divers-epars (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. The sequences are shaped by the editing according to various arrangements which respect the film ...

VO/ID (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... In each of the texts, words common to the other langu ...

Amoroso (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. ...

Journaux 1983-1985 (1985)

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

Enjeux (1984)

"...the Arc de Triomphe. Among many variations offered, we have selected about thirty which were cut vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The film, very dense, compact, tries to shape perception by means of specific cinematographic treatments which acc ...

Sans titre 84 (1984)

Miles (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. Could a cinematographic portrait escape this rule? ...

Disjet (1982)

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

Éliclipse (1982)

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 ...

According to... (1980)

Temps de mètre (1980)

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 cub ...

Très rare film (1978)

The is the first filmed diary made by Yann Beauvais. ...

Fugue chromatique (1977)

Homovie (1977)

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

Stop-danger-sens-unique-interdit (1977)

R (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.S. Bach 's Invention. ...

Spin (2008)

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

Pourquoi "Light Cone" ? (2008)

New York Long Distance (1994)

A film about my relationship to New York since 1962. It deals with the distance between a memory and the image of this memory, a distance one always tries to abolish. In this personal film we see the images of a city from a close distance, with autobiograp ...

Portraiture (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. This initial situation was conceived by Catherine Rebois. Graffon: I propose to film in a ...

Cinématon XXXIII (1984)

Reel 33 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Portraits / Mirrors (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, S ...

Cinématon (1978)

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 ...