Arcades

Loop video Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A hall, a reception. By visual subtraction of four superimposed shots made one after the other, humans mutate in remains of their presence, ie become almost absent, revealing the edges of the immutable architectural structure.

Hall of Montparnasse train station

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A train station, on the day of going on holiday, is a very ephemeral space in my opinion, to be revealed in the truth of what is humanly play, lends itself well to the visual processing of subtraction of pixels.

Dislocated

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’08s, 2019).

Collective stairway descent. Attempt to exhaust a Roman place.

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.

Vitrolles buildings

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

In a “city”, a popular area of the city near Marseille, makes buildings aligned, there are actions, artistic and social: making jam, building street furniture ... a small party in the heart of everyday life.

Palissage

Series of photographs.A long pause, in the early evening in June, along the fence that covers the work of the Forum des Halles in Paris. A short course, just trace the beginnings of a project... the long break is one of my watchwords, I (…)

The puddle of vomit

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’00s, 1998).

Someone vomited on the sidewalk. The crowd walking avoiding the puddle of vomit. Someone feels the pain of one who was there a few minutes before, and vomited because he had too much. The pain of the excluded.

Observe an obscure oblique obstacle

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

Political commitment begins in look and name what we see.

Program of Cameras Mobiles Festival 2012

The “mobile camera”, or “pen camera”, that everyone has now permanently in the pocket, is a myth that became reality in a few years... In this tidal wave informational become essential to the social and economic development, which place has the (…)