Lost in the morning

Series of 25 photographs in the early morning.

At the moment of awakening, the vision is not yet clear, and the mind is not yet precisely anchored in the body.

Vanishing line

Series of 38 still photos.

One morning like any other, on the Austerlitz bridge in Paris, everyone leaves, or runs away, towards his place of activity. What happens in the space of a second.

Where am I?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2020).

This strange feeling, sometimes in the morning, of not yet knowing where you are.

Imagine Absence

Tree in the city

Series of 34 morning photo pauses.

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

Then came the morning

Wet leaves

The kiss of La Défense

Series of photographs. An impromptu kiss ... Parisian tradition? And how our gaze transforms it.One morning in 2007, among the white-collar workers who run to their offices in the towers of the Parisian business district of La Défense, a scene (…)

A bright morning

Each morning

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’44s, 2013).

Charles, 37-year old boy who lost his mother a year ago, sometimes perceive the world in a distorted way, multiplied, time and space losing their reality. A meeting will change his life.

Beginning

Daylight

At the Venice stadium

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’11s, 2018).

A traumatic event disrupts the past, the present and the notion of reality.

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 (…)

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 17

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’05s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this street is the beginning of the world...

Are you calling for help?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’01s, 2022).

Step by step, the quest for life, meeting a tragic fate.

Story of my life

Alarm clock

Series of 313 photographs to represent 36 minutes of time.

An attempt to visually symbolize the mental effect of an alarm clock that rings, and rings again, and rings again in the morning... With an evolution of the effect on the brain waves, as time passes.

The land

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’25s, 2020).

“A place of one’s own, what is it?”

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 (…)