Couliboeuf, Pierre

(February 16, 1949, El-beuf, Yvelines, France - )

   Having graduated with a doctoral degree in modern letters (thesis on Pierre Klossowski and Leopold Sacher Masoch), he is a plastician who directed mostly experimental shorts. He authored or collaborated on several art books: 1991 Pab l'Enchanteur (Editions du Musée-Bibliothèque P. A. Benoît); 1993 C'est de l'Art (La Différence, Collection Mobile Matière); 1994 Le Bureau de l'Homme noir (print limited to 100 copies); 1997 Le Grand Récit (co-author with Denys Zacharo-poulos, Editions Centre d'Art Contemporain du Do­maine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan); 2003 Les Guerriers de la Beauté (Yellow Now, Collection Côté Cinéma, Belgium); 2004 Le Démon du Passage (co-edited by Yellow Now and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Pis-toletto / L'Homme noir (co-author with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bruno di Marino, Actes Sud); 2006 ... Wie ein Schatten in der Ferne / . . . Comme une Ombre loin­taine (co-edited by Fine Arts Unternehmen Books, Switzerland-French Embassy in Germany, Bureau du Cinéma, Bureau des Arts Plastiques, AFAA); Michel Bu­tor Mobile (co-author with Jean-Luc Nancy, Bruno di Marino, Yellow Now, Belgium); Pavillon noir (interview Angelin Preljocaj, Rudy Ricciotti, photos by Pierre Coulibeuf); 2008 Le Même et l'Autre: Conversation (co­author with Robert Fleck, Yellow Now, Belgium).

 Filmography

        ◘ Klossowski, Peintre-Exorciste (documentary; short)

        ◘ Le Gai Savoir de Valerio Adami (documentary; short)

        ◘ Divertissement à la Maison Balzac (short)

        ◘ La Chambre des Muses (short)

        ◘ Alechinsky sur Rhône (short)

        ◘ PAB l'Enchanteur—Portrait de Pierre-André Ben­oît (documentary; short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Temps de voir (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Samout et Moutfrenet (documentary; short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'oeil du Poète (short)

1993 ◘ C'est de l'Art (documentary; also screenwriter; shot in 1991-1993)

1995 ◘ Le Démon du Passage (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Rubato (video)

        ◘ Le Grand Récit (shot in 1995-1997)

        ◘ L'Homme noir (shot in 1993-1998)

        ◘ Cartographie (short)

        ◘ Balkan baroque (also screenwriter)

        ◘ Michel Butor Mobile (short)

2002 ◘ Lost Paradise 2 & 3 (video short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Les Guerriers de la Beauté

        ◘ Somewhere in Between

        ◘ Amour neutre (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Pavillon noir (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Who's Who? (video shorts: "Who's Marina Abramovic?", "Who's Michelangelo Pisto­letto?", "Who's Meg Stuart?")

        ◘ Delectaztio morose (video)