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The reality around us is far more fragmented space than it appears in the first instance.
The pavement of the street is probably not, if you think deeply, a single continuous support, homogeneous, where our feet take us from one place to another. Does the assembly of these manufactured parts on the floor follows a linear logic ? Is a move will actually go from one point to another ? Is a place is fixed in its place ? Are we not, in fact, in several places at once ? When our body moves, is it really moving ? The reality may be more complex than the apparent simplicity it seems to offer us in the everyday life. Does time obeys to the simple chronological logic ? This type of questions that were asked, very seriously, by physicists for over a hundred years, who found extremely destabilizing responses, leaded to, particularly through the conceptualization of quantum physics, enabled by the displacement of the representation of reality they gave product, the invention and development of a very large part of the technologies that make our lives today, that in their hearts do not obey physical linear logic. So, let us ask ourselves these kinds of questions for what happens in the heart of our lives, from our experience.
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The kaleidoscope, a figure made up of mirrored replications of the same image, offers a very “organic” vision of things. Like a visual metaphor for cell division, it opens up a realm of perceptions and emotions far beyond the mere decoration it might at first appear to embody. This figure, very rare in films, has always questioned me, which is why I’ve been exploring it in film for a long time.
It’s been a nice surprise to see animated kaleidoscopes flourishing on screens over the last four or five years, in film and series credits in particular. I invite you to read the manifesto text on the practice of animated kaleidoscopes, which I wrote ten years ago, in 2014: « Thinking about moving kaleidoscope image ».
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Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 6 A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).
Let’s imagine for a moment that this trash can is a bus... -
Map Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2014).
Humans make maps, marks, before go into action. -
Sidewalk Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).
A simple Parisian sidewalk. We go, we go, in daily life. But are we sure we’ve been there at that time ? Do we remember our presence to the world (…) -
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 7 A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’18s, 2009).
Let’s imagine for a moment that this poster is a face... -
Pencil camera A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’11s, 2005).
One of the first movies shot with mobile phone.