Sway your gaze
The impression of a pendulum movement gradually transforms the visitor himself into a pendulum.
Hi Benoît,
I like the Vaginophallus video but it needs a little scientific explanation. The Vaginophallus is transgender and allogamous.
It is when it swings that the pistil becomes accessible to pollen and can therefore be pollinated by the camera, which penetrates it at the same time as it is penetrated.
The film bears witness to this collapso-sexual dimension of the image. The camera penetrates the landscape as it is penetrated by light.
Something to ponder before it’s too late.
Fecund day,
Jean-Philippe
- Sway your gaze (MPEG4)
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 phragmites and marshes to discover this place offered to the curious. The different facets of this garden inspired these improvised choreographic walks.
This unique garden is a work of art. It’s a natural space that the landscape designer Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has built over twenty years, echoing his thoughts on the world being transformed by technology, in connection with the sky rather than the earth. He sees himself as a descendant of the philosopher Paul Virilio, with whom we have each collaborated. Maëlla Mickaëlle is a multi-disciplinary artist who has often danced in Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville’s gardens. These films are the result of a three-way dance: the place, the body and the musical gaze.
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Riding the thread of poetry, entering the garden A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (9’07s, 2023).
To set foot, and then, step by step, to feel the souls of this place. -
Orc (2013) Music album
Set of 18 songs composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette. Nine of them are sung, the rest are instrumental. Music and sound material is (…) -
I don’t understand anything about my life A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2019).
If we each dig a little deeper into our origins, our construction, our experience of the place, what can we understand about ourselves? -
The book’s title A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’41s, 2021).
On the difficulty of writing, of forming a sensitive and true trace of the most intimate and precious things. Immersion in the head of an author (…) -
Flowers from the grave, video/organic installation, Garden Festival of Chaumont sur Loire Artistic installation
Video-vegetal installation.Into the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur Loire, the landscape architect Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has (…)