Jean-Marc Prouveur
Biography
Jean-Marc Prouveur is a French artist and filmmaker. He attended L'Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Cambrai. For much of the 1980s Prouveur worked independently in the photographic medium, creating artworks characterized by the "outlaw sexuality" of the male nude, punctuated by religious iconography, showing in London, Paris, New York City, Amsterdam and Rome. In the early 1990s Prouveur moved into film, launching his Liquid London studio. His early short films, Dance Macabre and the Georges Bataille-inspired Solar Anus were elegies to AIDS; later in the decade he moved closer to pornography. Prouveur now divides his time between London and Auvergne, France. He continues to experiment in photography and film whilst researching an essay on the history of pornography and its place in art. In February 2009 he announced that he is in negotiations to exhibit new works in Paris.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Self
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine. Jarman's contribution is a version of his 1977 Art and the Pose (aka Arty the Pose), refilmed at 3fps, with a musical soundtrack. Jarman planned The Dream Machine as a commemoration of William Burroughs and Gysin's 1982 visit to the UK, and received initial funding from the Arts Council in 1983, then rethought the project as a portmanteau film featuring Gysin alone. The production remained in limbo until 1986, when James Mackay obtained completion funding from the British Film Institute. (Since this film was released on VHS accompanied by Jarman's Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull, T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven and Pirate Tape under the umbrella title The Dream Machine, synopses of this film have often muddled up its details with those of the earlier films. )
Movie - 2006, 2h 15m • as Non-sexual role
Loosely based on the late nineteenth century gay German photographer Wilhelm Von Gloeden, this latest release from Liquid London transports you back to a time when sex between young peasants was an expected way of life before marriage. Von Gloeden captures the erotic passions of his many employees; chimney sweeps, farm boys and shepherds are transformed through his photographic lens in Greek Gods. Starting in 1919 with the return of Von Gloeden to his beloved studio, left in a hurry before the war,the film follows the poetic reminiscence of a man devoted to male beauty. Gamins d'Auvergne re-awakens a bygone time of blissful innocence with total frankness.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Non-sexual role (archive footage)
Jean-Marc Prouveur has chosen and brought together his favourite scenes with his most promising actors: stars from Cazzo Fred Faurtin and Gil Nemo, Henry Fleischmann, Simone de Jesus…. This third compilation reveals the talent of the director with great sex between hunks, beefy and younger guys.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Non-sexual role
Everything you wanted to know about the studs and some things you did not dare to ask will be uncovered during 110 minutes (approx) of pure enjoyment. Find out what the machiavelic director really thinks of his models in this second edition. You will be amused and horrified, but definitely turned on by these intimate revelations.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Non-sexual role
Set in a French prison in some remote part of the Middle East, this poetic and intensely physical vision of homosexual desire is the latest film directed by Jean-marc Prouveur. Using a carefully chosen cast it alternates between tortured repressed fantasies and imagined green woodland from home. In the Prisoner's Song, soldiers sweat their days in solitary cells of a military jail and dream of sex with each other in the grass and flowers of their home fields. When lust and boredom overcome them they rub themselves against the stony walls listening for a murmur from the adjacent cell. Stuck in airless rooms, sexy inmates drive themselves to the edge with obsessive and pornographic longing.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Non-sexual role
Being a pornographer is not always easy when your carefully chosen house boy keeps on distracting you with his oversized manhood. There I am, Jean-Marc Prouveur, sitting on my couch in my lovely home in the Auvergne reading postcards from my favourite porn stars and trying to imagine through their lurid tales the sexual cavorting they get up to from as far as Spain, Poland, England and other exotic locations while this pest of a houseboy, Damian, plonks himself in front of me and begins to beat his humongous tool rather than tend to the desolate garden. Pornographer gets angry like everyone else and so do I. But I have to admit that, as I read the postcard from my lover, Henry Fleischmann and of his wicked tale of seduction with a handsome electrician, it is of Damian that I think. I have sent him away; you and I have to find out what he is up to.
Movie - 2003, 2h 15m • as Non-sexual role
Two dirty minded controllers get 12 of the guys through their paces. This is internet sex where every demand from either controllers is executed for the viewer's pleasure and filmed in graphic details. The guys are paid to do it for you and the controllers are making sure that you are getting the best these guys have to offer. They suck for your pleasure, they fuck for your pleasure and they come for your pleasure. All the twelve carrefully chosen models and the two controllers have you in mind and you alone.