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To make films without projecting stakes and expectations of “earning a living” or whatever. To give them a place.
To make films without projecting stakes and expectations of “earning a living” or whatever. To give them a place.
Chips
Chips
Using inspiration engines is very important. Do not hesitate to do so.
Using inspiration engines is very important. Do not hesitate to do so.
When I feel like doing something, when I feel it, like starting to edit a film, even if I have no idea where it's going, well, I do it!
When I feel like doing something, when I feel it, like starting to edit a film, even if I have no idea where it’s going, well, I do it!
Do whatever I want, in total freedom! Let go of my fears.
Do whatever I want, in total freedom! Let go of my fears.
The people who want to help you, they don't help you, because they have their own representations.
The people who want to help you, they don’t help you, because they have their own representations.
I just watched my movie “The Break”, and I think it's really good. At the time, I didn't realize it, I just did it.
I just watched my movie “The Break”, and I think it’s really good. At the time, I didn’t realize it, I just did it.
Everyone is talented, I realize that all the time when I get people to do things.
Everyone is talented, I realize that all the time when I get people to do things.
It's funny, George Lucas saying that he would prefer to make experimental films freely seen by few people.
It’s funny, George Lucas saying that he would prefer to make experimental films freely seen by few people.
I don't have to defend myself from what I create, I just have to give it to the world.
I don’t have to defend myself from what I create, I just have to give it to the world.
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Writing, whether with images, sounds, words or the written word, is the guiding thread for thinking about the material we manipulate, by doing. In this case, texts and literary experiences.

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I write according to what I observe. So I’m obliged, since I follow the rhythm of the world, to go back and forth in time: sometimes a lot happens very quickly, and I can’t write everything at once, then there are lulls, when I have time to (…)

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Fragments-images

Contes philosophiques du quotidienImages écrites du monde qui évoquent et construisent des pensées philosophiques, glanées au fil des rencontres et des chocs dont la vie est tissée. Écriture dans le réel de la confrontation. Confiance. Comme (…)

Don't try to control anything, to let myself be influenced by the things that happen around me, not to resist against them, even if I have no idea why I do them.
Notes on moving image

Book to consult or download for free.A selection, a collection of notes by Benoît Labourdette on the creation of moving images and on creation in general, gleaned over a period of 30 years, between 1992 and 2022. As many proposals to think the (…)


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