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Straight line towards the end

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (5’40s, 2000).
19 May 2000. Published by Benoît Labourdette.
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Speaking words is like drawing your own life line.

This video creation was designed to be projected very large place in a totally black, with black walls, cubic preference.
The image must be the full height of the wall.
Spectators stand and can move.
The projector is placed at about 2 meters in height, so that the spectator shading projects into the lower third of the screen.

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Lifeline
Lifeline

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2000).

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Death by my side
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Living shadows.
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Electronic travelling.
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Knife in the stomach
Knife in the stomach

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

If there was a personal theme in this film, it should be filling a form, the body. The paradigm shift made by digital on this question of fullness : everything is overflow.
My hand
My hand

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’15s, 2000).

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Nuclear Submarine
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Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2000).

Words underwater.
It turns
It turns

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.
Somebody is here
Somebody is here

Vidéo en boucle de Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2000).

Voix synthétique répétitive, qui cherche à faire sentir l’incarnation derrière l’abstraction.
Human movement
Human movement

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.
Global Network
Global Network

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’40s, 2000).

It was the beginning of the internet. Evocation of the fascination of browsing.
Straight line towards the end
Straight line towards the end

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (5’40s, 2000).

Speaking words is like drawing your own life line.
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In 2000, I designed a series of 12 films to be broadcasted in loops in different precise ways. “2D” Aesthetics of these purely plastic and infographic films is set in relation to the fact that the television screens at the time have lost their depth.

The musical tracks of the movies are also avalaible.

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