Triton

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2007, 1h04’).

SynopsisOne man and one anonymous anonymous evokes the difficulty of living in broad daylight in the shadow of the most fatal hour of contemporary history. The shadowy memory of the Holocaust which obscures the daily seeks desperately (…)

Calligraphy #7

The letters of these words must be in each other, for they have been asked. They seek their freedom there.

Free... then imprisoned

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’42s, 2018).

Work, potential factor of emancipation that can carry in itself its own reversal.

FrEE zonE

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2017).

The remembrance of a drama, and an unexpected confession.

Prison break

Collective film (2’28s, 2017).

Objects, which we imagine have been incarcerated, share their experiences.

Mairie du 3e arrondissement / Paris - Soirée « Témoins de la déportation »

An exhibition “Witnesses of deportation” was proposed to the City Council of the 3rd district of Paris in April 2014.April 28, 2014, as part of the evening tribute to Charlotte Delbo, screening of the film « Spectra » by Benoît Labourdette, in (…)

Ancestors

Love seen from the train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’18s, 2020).

Why should one have to be imprisoned to be able to love?

Books

Instrumental music, 2017, 3’45s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).

To live in a universe made of white noise, which suddenly begins to beat like the heart.Improvisation carried out in private, October 5, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette production).

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?

In the cave (2001)

Music album

Second album in 2001, consists of 15 pieces for nightlife, a little claustrophobic in vocal and physical consonances. Composition from actual sound of whispering resonances. Granular soundscape times. Webs of human voice and articulated synthetic (…)

Foie gras

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’36s, 2019).

An inaccessible child’s dream, in a lost house in the woods.

Heart of/for freedom

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’40s, 2019).

Beyond the barriers, barbed wire, prisons, the living heart is still beating.

Legacy

Declaration

A film by Benoît Labourdette and Lucie Vedel (3’18s, mute, 2017).

In the fault of racism, even the simplest words no longer succeed in forming, the meaning of everything is lost.

The kiss 1234567

A film by Benoît Labourdette (12’46s, 2013).

How to share the silent screams, behind families with smooth histories ?

The descent

Collective film (4’33s, 2015).

Stairway to freedom.

The imprisoned teenager

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2009).

Our real, composed of the confrontation of beauty and drama. But the reality of others, too, who live on dramas and are exposed, in the eyes of all, at the moment when they are the most fragile.