It turns

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

19 May 2000. Published by Benoît Labourdette.

1 min

Primitive motion pictures.

This video creation, silent is to be projected in a loop on a flat large (32") video screen on the wall like a painting.

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It turns (MPEG4)

All the films in « Live paintings »

Nuclear Submarine

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

Words underwater.

Lifeline

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

Lateral travelling.

Straight line towards the end

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

Speaking words is like drawing your own life line.

It was a video game

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (3’40s, 2000).

Electronic travelling.

It turns

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

Primitive motion pictures.

Global Network

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

It was the beginning of the internet. Evocation of the fascination of browsing.

Death by my side

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (6’20s, 2000).

Living shadows.

Somebody is here

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2000).

Repetitive synthetic voice that seeks to feel the incarnation behind the abstraction.

Human movement

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

Primitive motion pictures.

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

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

Mix of colors.

You’re beautiful

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’30s, 2000).

From a loop of an ambiance sound of an amateur video, building a digital abstract object, that the soundtrack anthropomorphise.

Live paintings

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.