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Pierre-Yves Cruaud was born in 1973 in France and lives and works in Paris. He obtained a Baccalaureat in Rennes, France, from 1991-1992, and studied film at the Ecole Supérieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle in Paris from 1993-1996. Since 2000 he has written, produced, shot, and edited short films and videos that have been shown at art and film festivals in Europe, Australia, Colombia, Japan, the US and elsewhere. He has received various awards and his work has been broadcasted in France, Spain and the Netherlands. Cruaud's short black-and-white films and videos use sped-up, slowed-down, and still footage of various objects including bodies, sculptures and landscapes. The videos make heavy use of the negative space of a black screen, creating a range of effects including some which are reminiscent of 1930s cinema. The works are most often done in high-contrast black and white, with an emphasis on formal concerns that is reminiscent of the structural film tradition. On the whole, Cruaud explores how human action and interaction are temporally represented by technology. By making films which examine the borders between figuration and abstraction, Cruaud considers the acts of perception which constitute images and our ability to understand them.
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