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 recurring figure, because when turned on the phone, in a horizontal position, we see his feet. On the other hand, with a digital camera that is facing you, it is vertical when it turned on. So often the other hand appears in the image.

This hand can become a topic.

Selection of the day: « Hand studies 2 »

The violence of the images and the violence of the relationship to the images, through the deadly ’road-movie’ with one hand.

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Film Benoît Labourdette (3’02s, 2010).

Main-hand (hand studies 12)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’09s, 2021).

The hand that accompanies, the hand that reveals, the hand that touches.

Hand studies 11

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’21s, 2010).

Blood on the hands... who can pretend not to have some, even indirectly?

Hand studies 10

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’39s, 2010).

Invisible war.

Hand studies 9

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’06s, 2010).

At night, memories emerge. As in a dream, gestures are back in the hands, without even one noticing. It is our body that “records”, that stores, that enrolled in our memory, ’reviewing the film’ (…)

Hand studies 8

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

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, (…)

Hand studies 7

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’06s, 2010).

In a corridor of the Paris metro, only urban universe, fruit emerge from tiled walls.

Hand studies 6

Film Benoît Labourdette (1’36 s, 2010).

Everyone runs, goes about his occupations, his work, his sport, his body, his loves, his delay, its all his time, some on foot, others by car, bicycle, light clothing, or city. And if, at the top (…)

Hand studies 5

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2010).

All is only a game. Communicate with fellow via digital networks is part of the game.

Hand studies 4

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’03s, 2010).

Under the cobblestones, the beach ! A desire for freedom, for fulfillment, which today actually exists, but is only an image.

Hand studies 3

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’16s, 2010).

The trip, since the invention of the train, is a very dangerous mechanical operation. So musics, mechanical also. The landscape it also is filled with these mechanisms. Mechanisms at all levels.

Hand studies 2

Film Benoît Labourdette (3’02s, 2010).

The violence of the images and the violence of the relationship to the images, through the deadly ’road-movie’ with one hand.

Hand studies 1

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’25s, 2010).

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.