Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 18

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’49s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that these streets are canals...

What is a town

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2019).

A place visited today, empty, where I lived so many things a long time ago.

Vanishing line

Series of 38 still photos.

One morning like any other, on the Austerlitz bridge in Paris, everyone leaves, or runs away, towards his place of activity. What happens in the space of a second.

Small parking

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

This small park is located next door to me. For years, every time I go there, I am concerned about this bit of wall damaged, with the apparent behind the plaster bricks that fell long ago. As an opening to a view of the inside of a body. As a (…)

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 13

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’55s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that these air launchers are flame throwers...

Backseat

My home window

A film by Marie (2’14s, 2009).

Keep a record of what you see from home and not what is in your home. Even if what we see from home seems banal to us, the important thing is to share our gaze.

Harley

On the road, we go on, calmly but very quickly. And this happens, inescapably.Instrumental Music, 2017, 1’02s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Improvisation carried out under private seal, May 28, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette (…)

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 6

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this trash can is a bus...

Algorithmic squares

The algorithms, which are supposed to square our gaze, open us up to the unsuspected poetry of the world.Series of 27 photos, treated with the “seam carving” technique, which reveals a disturbing strangeness.The seam carving or (…)

Already the architecture

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2018).

Contemplative quest for meaning in an abandoned summer camp.

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 11

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’54s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that cars don’t exist...

The hectic life of our objects

Collective film (3’49s, 2018).

When everyone finds in himself his richness, his inner joy.

Writing it

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2015).

Exploration by word and image of the relationship between physical movement and writing.

My home window

Un film de Christopher (0’50s, 2009).

Almost without comment, the image speaks alone, its deep and simple language.

Pont Neuf

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

The Pont Neuf, in addition to its architectural history (the oldest bridge in Paris), has an artistic history : its packaging by Christo in 1985, the film “The Lovers on the Pont Neuf” by Leos Carax in 1991, etc.. But one of its reality is that (…)

46

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2016).

Numbers structure music ; thus, well focused, one can hear the singular song of no. 46 of this street...

Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training

Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone.The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), which is involved since a long time in dissemination and education to the image, offered a training in filmmaking with mobile phone, which I (…)

Rights Story

A collective movie (2’42s, 2021).

Speaking objects illustrate the eight « cultural rights ».

September 4

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’27s, 2014).

Materials and scales.

Remembering Alice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’40s, 2017). With Marion Geerebaert.

A mother returns in the footsteps of her missing daughter. The work of mourning, like the work of birth, is a work of unconditional love.

Victory for ultra-powerful alternating electric power

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’41s, 2019, muet).

The power, impressive, seductive, is no less dangerous.

Hand studies 6

Film Benoît Labourdette (1’36 s, 2010).

Everyone runs, goes about his occupations, his work, his sport, his body, his loves, his delay, its all his time, some on foot, others by car, bicycle, light clothing, or city. And if, at the top of all this turmoil, a great hand had all this, (…)

Before the accident

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2015).

A few seconds before a fatal car accident.

Taxis

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’16s, 2014).

Lights at night.

Rebuilding

A movie by Benoît Labourdette (3’24s, 2014).

Royaumont abbey : get there and rebuild it...

Night road

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’44s, 2013).

“Small child at the bottom of the back seat of the car, travel and night lights are not very real. With the help of tire, three minutes of travel on the street appear three long hours of contemplative abstract experiences.”

Foie gras

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

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

Remember here by the window

A collective film, initiated and edited by Benoît Labourdette (1h01’, 2009-2020).

Look out your window at home, and think of an important memory.This collective film is composed of 44 videos (among 500 made) shot by people in France, Algeria and Tunisia, between 2009 and 2013, in creative workshops led by Benoît (…)

Sidewalk

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

A simple Parisian sidewalk. We go, we go, in daily life. But are we sure we’ve been there at that time ? Do we remember our presence to the world and to others, in the everyday moments... that become extraordinary if we take a look on them. (…)

Look down

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’20s, 2022).

To look in the face of one’s greatest fears, for a few moments. Dive into consciousness. Build.

Each in turn

Collective film (1’55s, 2013).

Prepare all of us together for the adventure.

Crossroads

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’00s, 2015).

Is the world began, or is it an imaginary space, built from a logical matrix ? Questions and answers at a simple crossroads.

City lights

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’00s, 2023).

Our two eyes see left-right with a gap, before-after with memory, front-back with their mobility; they create relief and depth.

Café des images: “Work in short(s)”, carte blanche to Benoît Labourdette[s]“, carte blanche to Benoît Labourdette[S]”, carte blanche to Benoît Labourdette

Films by Benoît Labourdette and results of a lively workshop at the ESAM in Caen.At the Café des images (Hérouville Saint-Clair - directed by Geneviève Troussier, an initiative hosted by Françoise Pouchin), regular meetings on the stakes of (…)