Amnesia

Things story

Collective film (4’25s, 2017).

Small depresses of the everyday objects.

Definition of the word love

A film by Benoît Labourdette, based on an idea by Nassera Tamer (2’25s, 2020).

Love we live it, it guides us or overwhelms us, we enjoy it or suffer from it... but by the way, what is it, exactly?

Frosted

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2022).

Recovering your childhood dreams...

Somebody is here

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2000).

Repetitive synthetic voice that seeks to feel the incarnation behind the abstraction.

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?

FrEE zonE

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

The remembrance of a drama, and an unexpected confession.

Red button

Series of 43 floral photographs.

A plant metaphor for the disturbance of consciousness in situations of power.When I looked at this series of photographs after I’d made it, this floral red button seen in multiple facets, in multiple states of gaze, strangely the other red (…)

The very violent return of P.

About the film « Sands Hotel »?lang=en.I could take it the wrong way, because he is extremely vindictive towards me, and I can see that it is his fantasies that are talking. But, but, he is sincere, honest with himself, with who he is, and I find (…)

Legacy

Alchemy

Control

Knife in the stomach

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

If there was a personal theme in this film, it should be filling a form, the body. The paradigm shift made by digital on this question of fullness : everything is overflow.

Haro on violent husbands

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2009).

Short film of 2’13sec, built on the confrontation of a press article of November 25, 2009 and a shot filmed in public transport in Paris, on the same day. The daily confronted with information. Both, the text and the film, are in reverse, to (…)

Hallucination

Mexico

The beast

Is science immoral ?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’11s, 2014).

The myth of scientific progress. According to Albert Bayet.

Everything will be fine

“Hello my beautiful”, transmedia play

Video capture of a collective creation directed by Benoît Labourdette. Played on March 26, 2016 at the CNSAD (15 minutes).

“Today, almost everyone takes the stage on digital networks, takes a presence in the gaze of others by self-portraits interposed. What about the place of our lives? What can the theater stage, representation, and poetic gesture put into motion in (…)

City

Numb

Straw fire

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’27s, 2019).

Dead animals are helplessly witnessing human violence.

The fight

Collective film (0’54s, 2019).

How do we find good reasons to leave and fight?

House of the image, Appointments of the image #6: “Intimacy, images, social networks. Existing and living together in the digital age”

Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018.Summary of the day on the (…)

Night train

Impossible

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’20s, silent, 2019).

Is revolution still possible in the age of neuroscience?

At the Venice stadium

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’11s, 2018).

A traumatic event disrupts the past, the present and the notion of reality.

Suddenly

Shepherd

Forgetting the nightmare

Paths for projects for the prevention of violence through audio-visual practice

Pedagogical structure of a workshop.

Violence, and especially “gratuitous” violence, with no obvious explanation and operated by young people who are a priori not concerned, is a fairly central contemporary prevention topic. Based on field experience and professional training that I (…)

On steel

“On the ineffectiveness of our works in real life”.

Commentary on the text by Eva Doumbia & Kader Attia (2023).

In July 2023, visual artist Kader Attia and director Eva Doumba published a text (in Analyse Opinion Critique) in response to the youth “riots” that followed the killing of young Nahel by a policeman. Their text questions the usefulness of (…)

The country where we lie

The skewer

Collective film (4’36s, 2019).

In a movie theatre, the objects of our daily lives talk about life with social networks.

“China : window on blows” - Underneath the images - ARTE

Issued on February 8, 2023.

Decoding images of violence, a perilous exercise.The tv channel ARTE asked me to participate in one of the programs of the series “Le dessous des images”, on the question of amateur images filmed in contexts of state violence. I speak in the (…)

You’re beautiful

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’30s, 2000).

From a loop of an ambiance sound of an amateur video, building a digital abstract object, that the soundtrack anthropomorphise.

Number Number

East image: Cover images that make violence happen

Training on how to teach about violent images.East Image, Regional Centre for Arts Education and Training in Cinema and Audiovisual, organized on November 9, 2016, with the support of the Conseil régional and the DRAC d’Alsace (…)

Cubes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’48s, 2013).

This old house and this rain remain me a memory from when I was a child, in a classroom...

Stone by stone

Worldwide torture

It’s a piece of cake

I kill them. They do.

A film by un ten years old child (9’04s, 2019).

Living in the inner world of a 10-year-old child, through a truculent walk with him in the neighborhood.

Disarm

Huwww

The deep waves of an inner storm are born, mysterious and imperceptible, and grow, transform, do not know why.Instrumental music, 2014, 2’23s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Improvisation carried out in private, (…)

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.

Get loose

I never want to be funny again

Choice of words

Collective film (7’22s, 2017).

Words dance to make racism and discrimination vanish.

Blitzkrieg

Case study

The bourgeois

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’30s, muet, 2020).

Who really are the dominant bourgeois?

Fight Men

Collective film (1’36s, 2019).

When technology, money and organization are put at the service of violence.

Creation and Virtual Reality

Critical thinking and creative methods.

Building a critical thinking of the stakes of Virtual Reality (360°) films, through practical application and creativity.This article was originally published in 2020 in « Les cahiers de Louis Lumière n°13 ».Virtual Reality has been (…)