On the void

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’35s, 2021).

Meditate, yes... but how to do it?

Rhysome

Collective film (3’38s, 2019).

Crossed nostalgias in a cinema theater full of history.

Fragile and forgotten silhouettes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’15s, 2023).

Do we remember these living figures, near or far, multiple, these moments of intense life? As in a painting by Bruegel the Elder, there is no whole, but a multitude of small details juxtaposed.

Eclipse

Madness.

I think I will go more and more towards a work on madness, it is a place where I can act. And I realize, with the film « Around », that proposing madness, that is to say “holes” in the meaning, allows to give to the spectator a much more (…)

Creation comes from emptiness.

I need to make emptiness in my life, to have real empty moments, in hollow, so that creation can be born. It comes from emptiness, always.

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.«»

Interlude

Desert

Silence

Today, I am...

A collective movie (4’19s, 2021).

They wake up, and are determined to get on with their lives!

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 (…)

Empty

Empty

Calligraphy #16

Everything is organized around the void, or rather in the void. Writing is an adventure, a mysterious journey.

Empty Waves

Nothing

Chairs

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’26s, 2012). Musical improvisation by Olivier Mellano.

We all sat on chairs in classrooms. We make these chairs ? What do they give us ?How they welcome us ? Can we look at them differently than in a utilitarist point of view ? Besides, are they not utilitarian ? They pass, through their design, (…)

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.

Nothing

Light emerges

See or be seen

Collective film (3’29s, 2019).

Objects share their vision of ecology and the future.

Winter

Making space, cleaning, tidying, emptying... these are the actions that produce the favorable context in which works of art can be born, in which creation can emerge in a fully natural way.

As a result, the moments when I create can seem very short, and it destabilizes me that it is so fast, I have the impression that I am doing anything. But in fact not at all, I do what the space that I have patiently built, the conditions that I (…)