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Hall 1

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2023).
12 August 2023. Published by Benoît Labourdette.

Dare to bear witness to what you’ve seen and experienced, that’s how you make the world a better place.

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In this station, I saw

As if it were normal

Because everyone was afraid

The discrimination

Dehumanization

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And, worst of all, I saw the same thing happening in cultural venues

Theaters

libraries

cinemas

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I’ve seen “good people” obey the absurd without question.

Manipulated as they were by the propaganda of fear

And I’ve even seen many of them do more than was asked of them

To ensure their ephemeral privileges

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Never again!

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What is poetry?
What is poetry?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2018). Based on an interview with Yves Bonnefoy by Auxilio Alcantar.

To the question “What is poetry?”, the poet Yves Bonnefoy gives an answer that concerns the essential, in terms of philosophy.
The wire
The wire

Film by Benoît Labourdette (8’34s, 2016).

Documentary on the painting exhibition “The wire” by Benoît Labourdette, Paris, October 2016.
Body Awareness
Body Awareness

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2020).

Introduction to the intrinsic link between consciousness and health of the body, through the words of Moshe Feldenkrais..
Making a grave
Making a grave

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’45s, 2023).

Finally, finding a way to exist oneself in the absence of the other.
Dancer : Loïe Fuller
Dancer : Loïe Fuller

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’28s, silent, 2020).

Mise en abyme of the presence of human bodies as abstractions, through time, techniques and cultures.
About the moon (Leonardo da Vinci)
About the moon (Leonardo da Vinci)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’57s, 2019).

Diffraction of the vision, relationship to the stars, entering Leonardo da Vinci’s mind.
Prosopopoeia
Prosopopoeia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2016). Produced by Arcadi Île-de-France.

Documentary on the exhibition “Prosopopoeia, when objects come to life.” The look of a machine, the drone, on objects endowed with autonomy.
A butterfly at Picasso's
A butterfly at Picasso’s

A film co-directed by Alain Fleischer and Benoît Labourdette (18’01s, 2016). Music by Benoît Labourdette.

An UAV in the Picasso Museum in Paris just before its reopening in 2014. An unusual visit to a place such that you will never see it again. And Picasso speaks...Note on the personality of (…)
Captain Thanase
Captain Thanase

Film by Martine Stora and Benoît Labourdette (32’28s, 1995).

Meeting with André Malartre. The discovery of an inventor of theater.
Holy Shroud
Holy Shroud

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’40s, 2021).

Film comes, in the history of mankind, as a much more religious fact than one might have thought at first glance..André Bazin, in his article “Ontology of the photographic image” (1945), (…)
La Sagrada Família, a simple interior visit
La Sagrada Família, a simple interior visit

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’44s, 2016).

A sequence tour of the interior of the Basilica La Sagrada Família, by the architect Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona.
Photos of the construction site
Photos of the construction site

A film by Benoît Labourdette (12’43s, 2017). Text and photographs by Myriam Drosne.

Binocular walk in 360° inside the memory of a project of photographs of a construction site.
The Rational Education of Childhood
The Rational Education of Childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (on a text by Émilie Lamotte, 3’43s, 2019).

The most effective educational principles are not the ones we believe. Discovery of Emilie Lamotte’s sharp and constructive thinking. Émilie LamotteÉmilie Lamotte was a young pedagogue at the (…)
“Droit à la parole!” (The Right to Speak)
“Droit à la parole!” (The Right to Speak)

A documentary film by Benoît Labourdette (2026, 1 h 05), shot with the pupils of the École Nouvelle La Source in Meudon and produced by Sources Vives, about democracy as something children learn, from nursery school to the end of secondary school.

Speaking up, listening, debating, deciding together: at La Source, children learn this from nursery school onwards, just as they learn to read and count. I made “Droit à la parole!” in the school (…)
The hand
The hand

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2026).

Grief is never truly over, but the person who passed away gradually comes back to life within us.
Hall 1
Hall 1

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2023).

Dare to bear witness to what you’ve seen and experienced, that’s how you make the world a better place.
Reverse staircase
Reverse staircase

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’51s, 2026)

Descending into a staircase upside down, everything is inverted, time is slow, perhaps there is no time left.
Chaosmos
Chaosmos

A film by Richard Texier and Benoît Labourdette (8’51s, 2014).

Film Richard Texier’s paintings with a drone...
Wings
Wings

A short documentary by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2011).

Fate of the world leads me to cross a sculpture by Richard Texier in the port of La Rochelle, in July 2011. A correspondence, written and filmed, follows.
Richard Texier at work
Richard Texier at work

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).

A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.
Lonelies from the streets
Lonelies from the streets

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’42 s, 2016).

Documentary on the exhibition of photographs “Lonelies from the streets” by Benloÿ, at the chapel of the Jesuits, Chaumont (France).
Laongo
Laongo

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’39s, 2015).

Sculptures made by artists from all countries, in relation to each other in sunny nature of Burkina Faso (Laongo park). Documentary.
Little sisters
Little sisters

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’06s, 2019).

In the city of Navigators in Choisy-le-Roi, for 40 years, a group of nuns, “The little sisters of the Assumption”, has been sharing the lives of the inhabitants.
What kind of world do we want?
What kind of world do we want?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’54s, muet, 2020).

Bibliography in 2020 for the emancipation of women and men.
Mediterranean 2
Mediterranean 2

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’23s, 2021).

Living Ruins of the memory of our common origins in the West.
About the 21<sup class="typo_exposants">st</sup> Century: Meeting with Paul Virilio
About the 21st Century: Meeting with Paul Virilio

A film by Martine Stora and Benoît Labourdette (26 minutes, 1995).

Paul Virilio, a great philosopher of technology in the 20th Century, in 1994, gave us a vision of the 21st Century that seems to us very enlightening to give meaning to our present, 26 years (…)
To Jean Dubuffet
To Jean Dubuffet

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’19s, 2018).

“I am absolutely convinced that anyone, without any special knowledge or skills, without having to look at I don’t know what so-called native dispositions, can devote themselves to art with every (…)
  Documentaries
To Jean Dubuffet

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, and vice versa. So why differentiate these two forms of cinema ? Perhaps simply to clarify what the audience should expect from the film : the proposal to live a dream in an imaginary, or the proposal to discover unknown parts of the world, as revealed by a unique look.

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Fear

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Human

Selfishness

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