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Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 6

Imaginons un instant - Episode 6 A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009). Let’s imagine for a moment that this trash can is a bus... thumbnail Benoît Labourdette
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).
26 November 2009. Published by Leny Müh.

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

Without my decision, the theme of the person as an object, the theme of deportation, exclusion, waste, almost automatically comes back to me as soon as a subject comes up. I realize that this is a kind of assumption of the origin of my gaze. And the theme of the bus has been part of some daily exchanges recently.

There is no doubt a little bit of distance missing in this film, but the interplay of correspondences (bin, bus, red lights, multitudes of signs in the city, rhythmic movement necessary for the circulation of flows essential to urban life...) gives a meaning that made me choose to show it.

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