Bodies thrown in front of empty space

Series of 100 photographs in a hallway.

The empty space, the stage, the fallow field, on which humanity grows. Often, one passes by without stopping.

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 (…)

Sway your gaze

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (2’11s, 2023).

The impression of a pendulum movement gradually transforms the visitor himself into a pendulum.Hi Benoît,I like the Vaginophallus video but it needs a little scientific explanation. The Vaginophallus is transgender and allogamous.It is (…)

Fragile

Exit From The Ground (2021)

Musical album

Underlying dialogues in the face of the sea spray.Notes and sounds thrown like seeds, which matured during four to five years, to gradually gather, find each other and propose to germinate, to come out of the ground.Download the album “Exit (…)

The fear

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’28s, 2016).

Sensitive sharing of therapeutic indications to fight against fear, this kind of fear present inside of each.

Summer

Waves are water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).

Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh.

Perpetual motion

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 1998).

Ode to childbirth by a young adult.

I need a lot of emptiness to be able to create.

For example, this weekend I decided to stay home, not to go to P.’s birthday party, to empty my mind. People usually try to fill their lives to give them meaning. Well, I, on the contrary, try to empty it to give it meaning. That’s how things are (…)

Rebirth

Remembering Alice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’40s, 2017). With Marion Geerebaert.

A mother returns in the footsteps of her missing daughter. The work of mourning, like the work of birth, is a work of unconditional love.

I don’t understand anything about my life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2019).

If we each dig a little deeper into our origins, our construction, our experience of the place, what can we understand about ourselves?

I realize, when I see things much later, how valuable even the films I made in a short time are, because they are marked by the context that gave them birth. And I can elicit that context more often.

Birthday