Impressionnism

Memory of a poster

Video installation. These are one-minute videos to be broadcast repeatedly on black surfaces. Work on the sensation of the landscape, the project to transmit an immediate impression. As a mix between Lumière and impressionist paintings ... made of pixels. Four image layers, whose pixels are subtracted from each other, a mostly black image with objects and bodies are revealed when they are shifted from each other : this is the time that makes the image.

Selection of the day: « Saint Brieuc railway station »

Railway buildings designed to accommodate the movement of trains, can be taken as a metaphor of the film projector. With the subtraction of pixels in four layers, the platform of the small station Breton takes a universal dimension.«»

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Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Clouds

Clouds

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The clouds move slowly, if you look at the sky for a brief moment, but seem to go very quickly if you take the time to look. The relativity of perceived time...And if we superimpose the (…)

Montparnasse Tower

Montparnasse Tower

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The reflection of the city in the windows of skyscrapers is a fascinating visual effect. These buildings, which usually dominate us, are, in the city itself, reduced to a single image, a fragile (…)

Memory of a poster

Memory of a poster

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Sometimes, in the Paris metro, thanks to work, the walls are stripped of their posters for a facelift. So, during the time of repair, there are still traces, such as scratches that make the (…)

Pont Neuf

Pont Neuf

Vidéo en boucle de Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Le Pont Neuf, outre son histoire architecturale (le plus vieux pont de Paris), a une histoire artistique : son emballage par Christo en 1985, le film « Les amants du Pont Neuf » de Leos Carax en (…)

Station platform of Champigny

Station platform of Champigny

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

At the end of the afternoon, the shadows are long, which can be interesting for the subtraction of pixels.This station platform in the Paris suburbs is unique it is surelevé over the city, and (…)

Subway platform

Subway platform

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The modernization of subway platforms in Paris (France) consists of the installation of glass barriers on the quayside. As a screen so that opens and closes each time underground. The entrance is (…)

Vitrolles buildings

Vitrolles buildings

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

In a “city”, a popular area of the city near Marseille, makes buildings aligned, there are actions, artistic and social: making jam, building street furniture ... a small party in the heart of (…)

Glass

Glass

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Raindrops on the window of a moving train. Plan sets a moving object. Metaphor of cinema: the film set in the device records the movement of the world before. In fact, a train is technically a (…)

Revoir

Revoir

Vidéo en boucle de Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Des gens assis, qui travaillent dans un petit bureau, avec l’arrière plan de la rue derrière la vitrine. La superposition de quatre temps, par soustraction des pixels, peut donner, si on regarde (…)

Small parking

Small parking

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

This small park is located next door to me. For years, every time I go there, I am concerned about this bit of wall damaged, with the apparent behind the plaster bricks that fell long ago. As an (…)

Japanese balls

Japanese balls

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

An installation of Japanese bowls, lamps installed to decorate the countryside, in the context of “Encounters documentary film” in Mellionnec (Brittany - France).The movement of these white (…)

Hall of Montparnasse train station

Hall of Montparnasse train station

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A train station, on the day of going on holiday, is a very ephemeral space in my opinion, to be revealed in the truth of what is humanly play, lends itself well to the visual processing of (…)

Montparnasse Station platform

Montparnasse Station platform

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Human beings to the descent of a train. Each figure shows that passes through its movement in the layers of the image, which was hidden there.

Saint Brieuc railway station

Saint Brieuc railway station

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Railway buildings designed to accommodate the movement of trains, can be taken as a metaphor of the film projector. With the subtraction of pixels in four layers, the platform of the small station (…)

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The Eiffel Tower, visible monument if any, if it visually subtracted from itself becomes invisible, except if the viewer is small head movements, which show her figure fleetingly.

Arcades

Arcades

Vidéo en boucle de Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Une cour, une réception. Par la soustraction visuelle de quatre plans superposés filmés les uns après les autres, les êtres humains mutent en traces de leur présence, c’est à dire deviennent quasi (…)

Sidewalk

Sidewalk

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A simple Parisian sidewalk. We go, we go, in daily life. But are we sure we’ve been there at that time ? Do we remember our presence to the world and to others, in the everyday moments... that (…)

Corridor

Corridor

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The view of a single metro corridor, with the same principle of visual overlay of four times, in which the pixels are subtracted, added, multiplied, divided, to show as “edges” of time, on the (…)

Bastille train

Bastille train

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A digital tribute to the first Lumière films, with these references.

Bridge

Bridge

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A bridge over the Marne. Classic about the Impressionist painters. Reinterpreted in my own way, in addition and subtraction of pixels of different times.