Dust on the walls

Series of photographs.Advertising posters on the walls of cities and transport corridors are to me an extremely aggressive visual factor. I’ve always been dreaming of cities with no evidence other than the architecture itself.On November (…)

Black light

Anxiety disorders

A man is sitting in the Indian restaurant. He says he is waiting for a woman. I see him from behind. His voice is high. We are in Paris. He asks the waiter, who does not speak French, what is the exact address of the restaurant, because “she” (…)

The being and the image

Short proposal for an operativity of the philosophy of the image.

The images we look at, share, imagine and create have an important impact on our being in the world. Why do they do so? And how can we make good use of images to “be better”? Philosophical hypotheses and practical questions.Too much (…)

Whacked

The boys

Autonomous collective film (9’09s, 2019).

The camera circulates, goes from hand to hand, between boys of all ages, inviting us to share emotions, interactions, issues...

House of the image, Appointments of the image #6: “Intimacy, images, social networks. Existing and living together in the digital age”

Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018.Summary of the day on the (…)

I have to trust my images, that’s what I do best.

They don’t necessarily need texts, etc., they are actually very strong in themselves. That’s really important, and that L. told me. Because it’s true, and you have to recognize the strength that you have, and not reduce it to something else.

East image: Cover images that make violence happen

Training on how to teach about violent images.East Image, Regional Centre for Arts Education and Training in Cinema and Audiovisual, organized on November 9, 2016, with the support of the Conseil régional and the DRAC d’Alsace (…)

The Example

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’14s, 2018).

The importance of a work of art lies in its form, for this is how it changes the way of looking at the world.

What matters is not the extraordinary image, what counts is what I tell with the image, even if it is a simple image.

“VR can still enter everyday use”

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Pablo Maillé in Usbek & Rica media.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has not yet been appropriated by the general public. It seems interesting to me to take a step aside, playful, to build our critical mind on VR. The Usbek & Rica media interviewed me on this subject, (…)

Image bazaar

Collective film (2’00s, 2019).

Lost in the City of Science and Industry, objects share their questions about their relationship to images.

Cinema is not the art of the image.

It is the art of time, of movement, of emotion, of rhythm, of life, of everything we want, of the image among others. It is to reduce it terribly to say that it is the art of the image.

Calligraphy #2

Words are discovered, stripped, met in the adventure of their freehand writing.

Body Awareness

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2020).

Introduction to the intrinsic link between consciousness and health of the body, through the words of Moshe Feldenkrais..

Poitiers film festival : writing workshop “Écrits sur Images”

Writing workshop based around photographs. This project was part of the 8th international film festival Filmer le travail in the city of Poitiers and was supported by the CCAS, the works council of EDF.The workshop took place on the 17th and (…)

Interlacing magazine: “The mental film”

From the point of view of perception, a film is only an illusion formed by our brain from visual and auditory stimuli. Images seen can produce sounds and vice versa. Each person mentally constructs a different film from the same film seen. Thus I (…)

Objective(s)

Collective film (5’49s, 2018).

Anthropomorphic introspections at school.

Fringe

Series of 50 photos in quantum method.

It is the fact of looking that generates the image, by stopping the movement. If one does not look, things are everywhere at the same time. Poetic interpretation of “Young’s interference” in quantum mechanics.

I have no way of knowing what will work publicly and what will not.

So, I have to produce, in full honesty with myself, and then things have their life. On the other hand, I have to write them down, I have to broadcast them.

Produce, all the time, all the time, works of all types.

Not looking at myself, because it blocks, and it puts me in a position of not being cen<tered on myself, so I feel bad, because I feel judged by others. Stop trying to legitimize myself, if only in my own eyes. Produce and make known, without (…)

Bookstore

Fight against the image, with all force, with all force!

I want to tell you something

Collective film (3’38s, 2016).

What if the books spoke?

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, (…)