M.C.E.
Everyone’s utopia is perhaps a drawing centred on trust.
Produced within the framework of the video creation workshops “Did you say utopia?” (Ethical actions - CCAS holiday centres - France, summer 2019).
- M.C.E. (MPEG4)
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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The curved lounge Collective film (3’02s, 2015).
Hands of humans from all over the world are talking through their tattoos, to music in a building by Le Corbusier. -
Trailer of the 2021 Women’s International Film Festival A film by Benoît Labourdette (25s & 8s, 2021).
An all online festival... forty films by women directors from all over the world... a new way of doing... 43rd edition of the International (…) -
News from father A movie by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2014).
Life on a blank screen... -
Santouri A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’00s, 2016).
As if we vibrated in the strings of the instrument, the Greek Santouri, as if one lived its inner music. -
Declaration A film by Benoît Labourdette and Lucie Vedel (3’18s, mute, 2017).
In the fault of racism, even the simplest words no longer succeed in forming, the meaning of everything is lost.