Richard Texier at work

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).

A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.

“Loop” : collective exhibition (Lyon Particule Gallery)

Video installation.

Video installation in tribute to my late son, as part of the group exhibition “Loop” at the Lyon Particule Gallery (Lyon, France).Visitors were invited to take pictures of the exhibition and of themselves in the exhibition, which they could (…)

The Digital Washhouse : 8×8 Season 0 Episode 1

Video interview between Franck Ancel and Benoît Labourdette on the stakes of images and digital, as part of the prefiguration of the Digital Washhouse.

Wings

A short documentary by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2011).

Fate of the world leads me to cross a sculpture by Richard Texier in the port of La Rochelle, in July 2011. A correspondence, written and filmed, follows.

In Excelsis - video installation

Video installation in 4 screens : human body - vegetable sculptures - video (a project by Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville, Maëlla Mickaëlle, Benoît Labourdette).Four circular screens, looping: The installation is visible online.Here it is in (…)

“On the ineffectiveness of our works in real life”.

Commentary on the text by Eva Doumbia & Kader Attia (2023).

In July 2023, visual artist Kader Attia and director Eva Doumba published a text (in Analyse Opinion Critique) in response to the youth “riots” that followed the killing of young Nahel by a policeman. Their text questions the usefulness of (…)

“Impermanenza delle cose” Multimedia Exhibition (Pavullo Nel Frignano, Italy)

Screening of « Dead leaf », a film by Benoît Labourdette (8’33, 2012).Dario Apostoli, Italian photographer and filmmaker, organizes, in a small Italian village, Pavullo Nel Frignano, a sort of “cave”, an installation with projections of films (…)

Prosopopoeia

The artistic world of the “Prosopopoeia” exhibition evoked by music.Instrumental music, 2016, 9’35s (12 pieces). Compositions of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers and records).I made a documentary about the exhibition « Prosopopoeia », the (…)

La Veranda - Personal exhibition “The kiss 1234567”

Personal exhibition of recent video works.La Veranda, an exhibition place for young digital creation in the Centre region of France (a structure of the association Plan libre créations) proposes a solo exhibition of my recent video work, 18 (…)

Pompidou Center (Paris - France) : “Drone altitude” workshop

Exploring the issues of pictures made by drones, in workshops for children.On 27 September 2014, as part of the launch day of the season for young audiences at the Pompidou Centre (Paris, France), I proposed a foreshadowing workshops (…)

Chaosmos

A film by Richard Texier and Benoît Labourdette (8’51s, 2014).

Film Richard Texier’s paintings with a drone...

Alain Fleischer’s video interview

Alain Fleischer, filmmaker, artist, photographer, writer, director of Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts contemporains was the most regular contributor of the Festival Pocket Films: From 2005 to 2010, he made each year the experience of making a (…)

Art Press: article “Richard Texier, digital filmmaker”

Publication of an article in the special addon of ArtPress “Richard Texier, PANTHEO vortex” (June-July 2014).Download complete article (bilingual english-french)ArtPress devoted a special addon to Richard Texier, French painter and (…)

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 (…)

Pompidou Center : performance for six hands and a drone

30-minute performance with a drone, for a filmmaker, a performer and a composer. Benoît Labourdette, Gabriel Beckinger, Philip Griffiths.The next weekend, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December, at 15h and 16h at the Pompidou Center (Paris), come (…)

Gaîté Lyrique : mobility and creation seminar

Benoît Labourdette’s conference (full video) : “The mobile audiovisual creativity: challenges and opportunities.” (36 minutes)Introduction of the conferenceAlmost everyone has a camera in his pocket at all times, into his mobile phone. (…)

Alchemical video mapping performance

Saturday, June 3, 2023. As part of Nuit Blanche 2023. By Isabel Bertelot, Benoît Labourdette and “Les Manoirs”.

When in the night, alive with reminiscences of the female silent cinema, lights are born in the pictorial darkness, and letters and moving words emerge, composed as sensitive and musical bodies, it is an alchemy that immerses the (…)

Engaged Documentary Festival : In Excelsis

Show of the video installation « In excelsis » (Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville, Maëlla Mickaëlle, Benoît Labourdette) in the “Engaged Documentary Festival” - Bretenoux and Teyssieu (Lot - France). At the initiative of Carole Contant, September 25, (…)

Mediathemes magazine: “Technologies and contemporary uses of moving images”

Short techno-sociological history of cinema.

Moving images seem so natural and omnipresent that we are sometimes not very aware that they are in fact intrinsically linked to very concrete technologies, which have a strong impact on their content, more than we want to believe. For example, (…)