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The Holy Bishop persists and signs

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 how these two real clash. How? Inverting the course of time, as the historian does, in an attempt to reveal causality, but above all to find complexity beyond the apparent objectivity of all things.

Selection of the day: « The imprisoned teenager »

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.
 
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A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2009).
Haro on violent husbands
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. (…)
The Holy Bishop persists and signs
The Holy Bishop persists and signs

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2009).

The correspondences between the rain, which burns the glasses, which prevents to see, and the denialist theses on the agenda of the media for a few moments, which are also ways to still not want (…)
The imprisoned teenager
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.
Five explosive loaves discovered at Printemps Haussmann
Five explosive loaves discovered at Printemps Haussmann

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’26s, 2008).

Our real is formed of the combination of our daily experience, our footsteps are, and the reception of this information.