Nature

A flim by Benoît Labourdette (3’08s, 2021).

Getting back in touch with nature is not that simple.

The baroque house

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’26s, 2020).

Folds and folds of souls, architectures and life itself, made of synesthetic resonance. Gilles Deleuze adding to Leibniz.

A tree in tears grows again

Piano improvisation (2’06s, 2023).

We run, we play, we laugh... and then we choose to switch off.

Looking for the horizon

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (3’08s, 2023).

Seeing through the eyes of others, the world becomes different, unpredictable. Reframing towards the future.

Colossal garden

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Bob Boss).

When nature brings us back to the Sacred.

Immediate take-off

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’05s, 2020).

A simple stroll can be an invitation to an immediate dazzling journey.

Tree of life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’41s, 2021).

Even when cut, the life of a tree is transmitted and multiplied.

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 13

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’55s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that these air launchers are flame throwers...

Je veux être un arbre

A film by Benoît Labourdette (37s, silent, 2017).

Behind barks, utopia.

Green sky

Series of 35 photographs of the air.

The invisible matter is rough and colored.

The curved lounge

Collective film (3’02s, 2015).

Hands of humans from all over the world are talking through their tattoos, to music in a building by Le Corbusier.

Big feet

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’, silent, 2022).

The giants invite us to humility.

A seated man

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’37s, 2022).

The work of mourning, such a slow movement of life.

My home window

Un film de Christopher (0’50s, 2009).

Almost without comment, the image speaks alone, its deep and simple language.

Dead leaf

A film by Benoît Labourdette (8’33s, 2012).

A little piece of nature in the middle of the city is a microcosm of nature impulses of life. Love, the mix of bodies, dramas, reunion, always. Crosses of stories on feelings and bodies.

What is a town

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2019).

A place visited today, empty, where I lived so many things a long time ago.

Inner night

Series of 30 photographs of living nature.

This imaginary interior forest, always nocturnal and moving, disturbing, I walk there in my dreams, with difficulty. Large iridescent trees. When I wake up, I don’t see it anymore. But it impregnates me. And I still don’t know how to free myself (…)

Velocipede

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s , 2015).

Poetics of road signs in mountainous areas.

Leakage of branches

Series of 50 automatic photographs.

Photographic, digital and railway mechanics produce images that fix natural phenomena as much as their own coordinated natures. Machines as new natures that transform our gaze.

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 8

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this tree is a real tree...

Rain

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’27s, 2015).

Children’s games in the rain. Danger lurks.

Spring

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’37s, 2015).

Living the rustle of the world, between vegetal force, air power, and organization, speech and human culture, beyond the borders of all kinds.

If objects could talk

Collective film (3’, 2013).

[At the water’s edge, we confide in each other.]

Country Appointment

Collective film (3’27s, 2015).

In nature, objects sing to give themselves courage.

Just a tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette - text by Sonia Leplat (1’28s, 2021).

Thinking, overthinking...

Speech objects

Collective film (4’11s, 2016).

In a park, games of seduction of things at pivotal moments in their lives.

Breakthrough

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’, silent, 2022).

Plans of the Norman bocage

A tree in tears grows again

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2023).

Life after.

Parisian sidewalk

Series of photographs. Variation on the experience of a Parisian sidewalk.Shoot with the body, the hand that triggers the camera being an integral part of the optical system. Its presence before / with the objective diffracts the light rays to (…)

Walking on the sky

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle et Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (5’01s, 2023).

The gradual appropriation of the sky, to gently touch it, walk in it, live in it.

Earth

A collective film directed by Benoît Labourdette (1’43s, silent, 2017, collective : Alice, Morgane, Romain, Benoît).

The meaning of life on earth, summarized by a few key words.

Remember here by the window

A collective film, initiated and edited by Benoît Labourdette (1h01’, 2009-2020).

Look out your window at home, and think of an important memory.This collective film is composed of 44 videos (among 500 made) shot by people in France, Algeria and Tunisia, between 2009 and 2013, in creative workshops led by Benoît (…)

The window

A film by Tristan (0’05s, 2009).

So beautiful fragile poetry of the lack of inspiration.

Here we lay a solid foundation

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’46s, silent, 2023).

To be a player on the other side of the necessary change in the world.

Tree in the city

Series of 34 morning photo pauses.

Puissance et présence de l’arbre au cœur de la banlieue fabriquée.

Riding the thread of poetry, entering the garden

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (9’07s, 2023).

To set foot, and then, step by step, to feel the souls of this place.

Chamarande

Series of photographs taken at the Domain of Chamarande (Essonne, France) on January 1, 2021.

A year standing.The sun in the trees, illuminating the earth, water and nature of which we are a part, on this first day of a new year, fills me with wonder and brings me these wishes, inspired by the words of my friends. I recite them to (…)

Rachid’s

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2014).

The small trace left on a surface, on a “skin”, is perhaps the most important thing there is.

La boîte aux lettres

Collective film (1’51s, 2019).

Post the images in 360°, literally.

My ticket

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2021).

What is inhabiting?

Myopia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’33s, 2021).

Myopia can be triggered by trauma. We are left with poetry.

Observe an obscure oblique obstacle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’59s, 2016).

Political commitment begins in look and name what we see.

Trees and a woman

A film by Françoise Simpère and Benoît Labourdette (6’38s, 2020).

A walk, an intimate dialogue with oneself and with nature, a path to find oneself, to be in the world. A film born from a dialogue between images and text.

Dreamcatcher

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, 2020).

A fire that burns us, captured by nature.

And Flexible

Instrumental music, 2017,2’19s. Improvisation of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).

Lying down, not being able to move, but turning your head, trying to look behind you.Improvisation realized under private seing on January 1,2018.

Call for air Arras

Benoît Labourdette’s movies in a travelling projection program in Arras (France).In the context of the manifestation of contemporary art “Call for air” in Arras, I proposed a travelling screening of a selection of my films. Projections on (…)

The small train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’,2022).

Movement of discovery of one’s own life story in front of the landscape that scrolls by the window.

Naked tree

Manufacture of the moon

Series of 84 photographs on a potter’s wheel.

Through the trees, the dreams and my hands stretched out towards hope, this moon that gives rhythm to our cycles, I would like to invent it, to remake it like clay, to give it life again in my lives.

Already the architecture

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2018).

Contemplative quest for meaning in an abandoned summer camp.

An adult tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).

If I had known, if I could have, and yet I was always there.

An adult tree

Synthesizer composition by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).

Music from the film « An adult tree » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’19s, 2022).

Main-hand (hand studies 12)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’09s, 2021).

The hand that accompanies, the hand that reveals, the hand that touches.

Paul the tree

Series of 25 photographs of a natural being.

I met Paul in 2021. We danced together.Paul is a tree born here, in a wood next to a big city. He was planted by human beings. He likes to talk, in his tree language, with his friends who live next to him. Often he is happy. Sometimes he is (…)

Six faces

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’31s, 2018).

Contemplating the world through a lens that multiplies it may mean finding oneself in front of oneself, feeling that one is part of the world, and rebuilding oneself in this way.

Putting yourself in the other person’s shoes

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2021).

Collective empathy exercise.

Little Isabelle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’54s, silent, 2019, pseudonym: Marc Z.).

Social networks benefit from everything, even human tragedies.

At the station

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2016).

The intimate perception of the inner voices of passing humans, which leads to a choice of life.

Administration

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’17s, 2020).

The implacable and secular logic of the administration, the cement of our societies.

As the bird flies

Series of 55 animal photographs.

What if we put ourselves in the head of a bird? What if we tried to paint its emotions, its look, its vision of the world?

Stretched building

Series of 25 fluid photographs.

With half-closed eyes and a vertical movement of the head, an ordinary building is transformed into a playground for the imagination.

La fenêtre de chez moi

Un film de Laura (0’43s, 2009).

Simple description of her bedroom window.

The red jars

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’27s, 2021).

Man domesticates nature. For good or bad reasons? Maybe it’s a little more complicated than we thought. Hints for a philosophical reflection

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.

Stars of yesterday

Collective film (1’37s, 2014).

Sentiments of abandonment...

River bank. Overnight stay. Germany. Love. Romanticism.

A photograph and its two shades.

Night time, back to oneself .

This is Our Held Point

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’21s, 2019).

When an architecture made of glass reveals its intrinsic abstraction.

Collection de connexions

Collective film (4’34s, 2016).

In nature, objects share their digital experiences.

Surface of a morning

Series of 42 photographs downward.

Soil, cement, water, a few trees, traces of tires and old works, cigarette butts, reflections, rising sun, shadows of what overhangs the support of the forgotten past, flatness of evanescent life.How the real is revealed by its shadow and its (…)

Entering the tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’25s, 2022).

Alignment with one’s nature may be much closer than we think.

Flowers from the grave, video/organic installation, Garden Festival of Chaumont sur ​​Loire

Video-vegetal installation.Into the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur Loire, the landscape architect Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has created a vegetable sculpture, in a basement, as a large liana levitating in the dark. I worked on (…)

Design of love

Series of 15 danced photographs.

As I approached this simple tree in the city that evening, little by little I felt the powerful energy of its sap, projected towards its highest branches. And it was a dance step, repeated, that came to me. And my gaze embraced it as it twirled, (…)

Uprooted

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’01s, 2021).

To see oneself in front of the roots of a tree.

Hand studies 8

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’31s, 2010).

A tree in the middle of a street. It’s simple and banal. But if we explore its surface, its bark, we discover stories. All the stories that took place around, including the tree retains traces, etched on him, like so many tattoos. Love, venue, (…)

End of the silent movie

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’31s, 2021).

At times, time and space are reversed.

The comeback of Master Sakho

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’08s, silent, 2017).

Prepare for a troubled comeback.