Cinema

We are all part of the great human family

Benoît Labourdette’s films can be viewed here in streaming (often with English subtitles). Between experimentation and narration, I often work in series.

In all fields of artistic expression, the series is an important figure, because it makes it possible to express a principle, to explore a large number of facets of a subject or an object. Cinema, considered as an art form, can, as we know, greatly benefit artists and spectators alike from this deepening.

For researchers and documentalists, link to a “raw” archive of video files from this website.

Selection of the day: « Hand studies 8 »

A tree in the middle of a street. It’s simple and banal. But if we explore its surface, its bark, we discover stories. All the stories that took place around, including the tree retains traces, etched on him, like so many tattoos. Love, venue, hatred, boredom, separations...

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Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’31s, 2010).

Short films

I make short films as a painter makes paintings, usually in a lonely way, away from academic practices of making cinema. Some films are made in a very spontaneous way, others can take years to (…)

Documentaries

What is a “documentary” ? A singular look on the world, on reality. Any film, any work, offers a vision of the world, whether through fiction or not. Moreover, some documentaries include fiction, (…)

Celestial garden

A series of contemplative films made as part of an artistic collaboration between Maëlla Mickaëlle, Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville and Benoît Labourdette.You have to get lost between a meadow of (…)

Kaleidoscopes

The kaleidoscope, a figure made up of mirrored replications of the same image, offers a very “organic” vision of things. Like a visual metaphor for cell division, it opens up a realm of (…)

Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a philosopher, engineer and mathematician of genius. Among other major scientific and philosophical advances, in 1645 he invented and built the first mechanical (…)

Feature films

I’ve directed six feature films. They are singular films, each made with an atypical approach. They are shown publicly from time to time, in a dimension of exceptional encounter, as is that with a (…)

Animated Cinema

Since 2011, I have been offering workshops for the production of animated films from paper cut, in various contexts, notably in media libraries, at the Maison des metallos, at the Forum des (…)

Paul Valéry University (Montpellier - France) : “Drone-camera, deportation of the gaze” (conference)

Drones

Films shooted exclusively with drones, to explore the political, philosophical and aesthetic dimensions to which these machines with automated look can invite us to think.

Experimental Cinema

The “experimental cinema” is a practice of audiovisual creation which explores the audiovisual forms and their artistic devices, of creation and diffusion. We make films, installations, (…)

Collective films

Within the framework of professional trainings, educational workshops and other cultural activities, I regularly propose the production of collective films. Strong moments of group formation, (…)

Silent natures

We know the figure of the “still life” in painting. I propose the figure of the “silent nature” in digital cinema. These are contemplative paintings of nature, for exactly five minutes, like the (…)

Polyamory Series

The Polyamory series consists of very short films that challenge assumptions about love. These are graphic works linked to synthetic texts, with scientific or testimonial value.Love is a (…)

DIA LOG : collaborative films

The films gathered here were made in a collaborative way in 2019 as part of the participatory artistic action DIA LOG, which accompanies the changes in the Les Navigateurs district of (…)

Impressionnism

Video installation. These are one-minute videos to be broadcast repeatedly on black surfaces. Work on the sensation of the landscape, the project to transmit an immediate impression. As a mix (…)

The window

Since 2009, through workshops and filmmaking workshops that I lead, I propose, among others, the following work: shooting through a window, and tell a souvenir in clip. Many movies, beautiful, (…)

The window (anonymous)

To shoot from our homes, not to shoot our homes. Film what we see from your window and tell an important memory about this image, to share it with others we don’t know. Dare to let ourselves be (…)

Hand studies

Hands, or rather the hand, is a subject that matters to movies shot with handheld cameras : the camera in one hand, that films the other hand.With mobile phones, filming his feet was a (…)

Identicals Series

“Identicals, the daily impressions” : impressions of everyday life, short episodes, less than 2 minutes, kinds “look at stopping” the fleeting moments, which, if one stops for a moment, reveal (…)

Backwards

How real is it? Between the reality of everyday life and the information given by the media, which also describes a distant reality, clashes occur, which produce our reality. Films that work on (…)

Let’s imagine for a moment

“Let’s imagine for a moment that this broom is a human being”, “let’s imagine for a moment that this pavement is a sun”, “let’s imagine for a moment that the night doesn’t exist”... in everyday (…)

Live paintings

In 2000, I designed a series of 12 films to be broadcasted in loops in different precise ways. “2D” Aesthetics of these purely plastic and infographic films is set in relation to the fact that the (…)

Distribution of films

You will find here some traces of the diffusion of Benoît Labourdette’s films off the Internet: exhibitions, screenings, festivals... coming and past. Non-exhaustive list.