Collective film (4’11s, 2016).
In a park, games of seduction of things at pivotal moments in their lives.
Premiere of the film “Tell me LED” (France, 2016, 65 minutes), Friday, January 8, 2016 at 20:30. Cinéma Le Méliès, 12 Place Jean Jaurès - 93100 Montreuil - France. “Mairie de Montreuil” metro station. Free admission by reservation : reservation (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).
A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2018, pseudonym: Bob).
Transmission is emulation, fertilization of the soul.
Video platform
On 1 April 2020, during the period of confinement in France, I opened the video contribution platform www.parmafenetre.fr..Following the numerous feedbacks I received, creating these films, as much as watching them, did a lot of good to (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’19s, 2017).
Creation of the synthesis film of a multidisciplinary artistic intervention carried out in Choisy-le-Roi over a year, within the framework of urban renewal.
The Swiss Foundation at the Cité Universitaire in Paris (France), proposes, run by students, regular screenings of films.February 12, 2015 meeting devoted to the decade of the Mobile Film Festival, that I presented with Patrizia De Lauretis, (...)
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...
Collective film (1’37s, 2018).
Pictures escape from the books and express their desire for freedom.
Inventing art forms, filmed with drone.The Company, place of contemporary art in Marseille, led by Paul-Emmanuel Odin, invited me to offer to local youth, in the central and very popular in Marseille where it is an audiovisual creative (...)
A collective film (3’14s, 2021).
Out of the drawers, they come to life and express themselves.
Collective film (3’05s, 2020).
Shared joy after a film session.
Collective film (4’22s, 2019).
They lost, or they won, they testify atypically.
Voice-over is often discouraged in academic scriptwriting textbooks, which focus on the dramatic situation rather than on an interiority considered potentially boring. And yet, many films, and even “mainstream products”, successfully use (...)
Newspaper article.
Interview of Benoît Labourdette on the back of the Breton newspaper Le Télégramme, about the platform By my window, by Guenaëlle Daujon..Link to the article on Le Télégramme :https://www.letelegramme.fr/france/benoit-labourdette-nous-sommes-tous
Listen to the people around you and write down some of their words.
How to get listening and silence in a group? Surprisingly, by going through a work on oneself the results can be spectacular. Silence is a prerequisite to listening: a false ideaWhen we address a group of people, we need silence to be able (...)
Series of 30 photographs illuminated by words.
On my proposal, people have written words opposite images chosen from the thousands that I propose on my website, those that “jumped out at them” and gave birth to words, which illuminate them and dig them, or sculpt them, in return. (...)
Writing, whether with images, sounds, words or the written word, is the guiding thread for thinking about the material we manipulate, by doing. In this case, texts and literary experiences.
Tracing the letters of words, choreographing pictorial creations, setting graphic productions in volume... for me, visual matter is also a matter of pure exploration.
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).