The fact of being limited by time and then to make a lot of different encounters, to go to a lot of places, that’s what arouses my creation, a lot.

Rock rose

Dream

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’15s, 2005).

Looks and desires in the subway.

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.

Astronomy

Sands Hotel

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’28s, 2016).

Remember the presence of the lost loved one in a hotel room surrounded by sand.

A Fire on the Ruins (2003)

Music album

They wanted to make even our ruins disappear. Rebuild yourself with bits and pieces.An album long lost in limbo, which had to be revived from its traces, but which reveals a surprising energy.Download the entire album “A Fire on the Ruins” (…)

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 (…)

Moving

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.

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...

Closed trash

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’16, 1997).

Passing a closed trash can, a Japanese tourist remembers the words of his father, who told him the bomb, and the feeling of being alive while others died.

Choice of words

Collective film (7’22s, 2017).

Words dance to make racism and discrimination vanish.

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 (…)

Gossip

Collective film (5’19s, 2018).

A group of objects is preparing for his departure for summer camp.

Fast car

Traveling screening in Mitry Mory

As part of the Cultural Summer in Île-de-France program organized by Passeurs d’images.

Itinerant projection conceived and animated over several days of rehearsal by members of the Mitry-Mory 3rd Age Club, with the accompaniment of Benoît Labourdette, for an evening stroll sharing cinematographic references that were discoveries for (…)