Afnic Foundation: films presenting the 2019 winning projects

Nine films to present a selection of 2019 winners from the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity. AfnicAfnic is the Internet Registry of domain names in.fr. Its profits are donated to the Afnic Foundation, which supports projects that (…)

Glass

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Raindrops on the window of a moving train. Plan sets a moving object. Metaphor of cinema: the film set in the device records the movement of the world before. In fact, a train is technically a kind of camera. This is not his first goal (which is (…)

Station platform of Champigny

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

At the end of the afternoon, the shadows are long, which can be interesting for the subtraction of pixels.This station platform in the Paris suburbs is unique it is surelevé over the city, and thus offers an overwhelming views of the (…)

Mrs. Train (2021)

Musical album

Weaving together the elements of one’s own life, to elaborate a living matter.The piano that is left to resonate offers notes, melodies, rhythms and intensities to meet, creating pools of sound in which, at times, one can see oneself (…)

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?

Montparnasse Station platform

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Human beings to the descent of a train. Each figure shows that passes through its movement in the layers of the image, which was hidden there.

Saint Brieuc railway station

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Railway buildings designed to accommodate the movement of trains, can be taken as a metaphor of the film projector. With the subtraction of pixels in four layers, the platform of the small station Breton takes a universal dimension.«»

Head in the water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1h07’, 1994).

A tale of naivety and double personality, accompanied by Balinese songs and improvised jazz.Shot in Super 8 cinema. First self-produced feature film.

Your attention please

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’08s, 2011).

A station dock, a Flip camera on the ground, the voice-over of the stationmaster, waiting travelers, a train arriving...

Night train

Railway Flora

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2021).

As if life was reborn, in the heart of the mechanical world, love once again visible.

Orc (2013)

Music album

Set of 18 songs composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette. Nine of them are sung, the rest are instrumental. Music and sound material is constructed from samples of organs and sounds of the world. The lyrics are written without the help of (…)

Docks of Marne

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’51s, 1997).

The daily trip pain in the Paris suburbs.

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 9

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’43s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this train doesn’t exist anymore...

Trailer of the 2021 Women’s International Film Festival

A film by Benoît Labourdette (25s & 8s, 2021).

An all online festival... forty films by women directors from all over the world... a new way of doing... 43rd edition of the International Women’s Film Festival (from April 2 to 11, 2021).Two versions of the trailer of the International (…)

Bastille train

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A digital tribute to the first Lumière films, with these references.

Choir

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’10s, 2012).

Music softens morals.

Tire

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2000, 1h03 ’).

SynopsisOn digital images digitally reworked where fugitive anonymous silhouettes goes on, a poetic monologue book a disenchanted vision of ghostly ballet of modern life. (Forum des Images)

Domesticated landscape

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’51s, 2014).

The invention of landscape.

My ticket

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2021).

What is inhabiting?

Vire, next stop

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’48s, 2013).

One day a train. Chopped audiovisual form, from which emerge childhood memories, confrontation with the self-forgetfulness.

Next train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2024).

Time stands still. And then life returns. Pain is life. Sweetness is life. Replications. Messages. Double helix. Heal. ExtensionsWhen we live through borderline or traumatic experiences, we may find ourselves experiencing time in a way that (…)

Wind meetings

The wind in the ears, the clothes that beat, and someone appears.Instrumental, 2014, 4’43s. Composition of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).

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?

Reflection alone

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’38s, 2022).

How to find oneself and the world after the shock?

Sleeping in Paris

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’41s, 2023).

Finding meaning in life, despite its most terrible tragedies

The small train

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

Movement of discovery of one’s own life story in front of the landscape that scrolls by the window.

France Doc : “Documentary experiences : childhood”

As part of the session “Documentary experiences : childhood” organized by FranceDoc, April 24, 2015 at 19:30 at EnCours in Paris, screening of the film :Vire, next stop (Benoît Labourdette 3’48, 2013). Full program of the sessionFranceDoc (…)

Leakage of branches

Series of 50 automatic photographs.

Photographic, digital and railway mechanics produce images that fix natural phenomena as much as their own coordinated natures. Machines as new natures that transform our gaze.

Hand studies 3

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’16s, 2010).

The trip, since the invention of the train, is a very dangerous mechanical operation. So musics, mechanical also. The landscape it also is filled with these mechanisms. Mechanisms at all levels.

CEFPF : “Training”Design, build, finance content for new media"

Since four years, I coordinate and I run a large part of this training of five weeks, which aims to provide skills into the multidisciplinary field of new media .Link to the page of presentation of the Next session : November 4 to 8 December (…)