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.
The hand confronts characters, in a context half-country, half-suburb. The power of click, the power to act on the images, the power to act on the world, remote but so concretely, just with the hand. A hand that eats images...
- Etude pour mains 2 (MPEG4)
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.
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The man with the briefcase Photography
In everyday life, all of a sudden, our eye settles on something, and follows it... -
Madeleine Un film de Benoît Labourdette (3’23s, 2010).
Nostalgie musicale dans le métro à Toronto. -
Dust on the walls Photography
Series of photographs.Advertising posters on the walls of cities and transport corridors are to me an extremely aggressive visual factor. I’ve (…) -
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 5 A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’59s, 2009).
Let’s imagine for a moment that this wall is a lawn... -
At your jeweler’s Series of 15 cropped photographs.
Pricing principle. Metro plan. Illegal travelers. Nazi. Laminated. Shine