“Mi sveglia la tromba”, Alessandro Scarlatti

Pathway to the light

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’48s, 2022).

The path towards its end is not linear, it is woven in several stages, in layers that are not successive but concurrent, it is new and singular, it is at all times surprising, unexpected.

The call

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’50s, 2013).

What is architecture, what is a place, how do you envisage ?

Justice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’22s, 2018).

The mysteries and paradoxes of justice, like so many traces of electric movements forgotten in the past.

Inside the flower

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’46s, 2019).

A religious building, what else is it but a metaphor experienced by the sincere visitor to be immersed in the flowering?

Stones

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’42s, 2021).

Organic architecture from the sea.

Observe an obscure oblique obstacle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’59s, 2016).

Political commitment begins in look and name what we see.

Prides

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’46s, 2014).

Erect statues ... Why? How? Where to look?

O sole mio

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’03s, 2014).

Kaleidoscope, magic lantern, invention of the phonograph, longing for love...

Body

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’51s, 2015).

Shadow of a body with multiplied members, shouting his nostalgia.

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.

Small bicycle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’57s, 2022).

Our movement is represented by signs on the ground. Are we those signs, or are we much bigger?

Moon in the water

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’45s, 2014).

Dialogue between a haiku of Ueda Chôshû and organic-generative kaleidoscopes images made with reality.

Angels

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2020).

The black magic of statues, to sow fear in us... and thus prevent us from thinking, thus controlling our souls and our actions.

Inventing a castle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’32s, 2021).

And what if we played a game of inventing a castle inspired by trees?

New directions

A film by Emmanuel Vergès and Benoît Labourdette (1’25s, 2021).

"What if we gave ourselves new directions by seeking new points of view?Text by Emmanuel Vergès.Direction, image, sound by Benoît Labourdette.Shot at the Domaine of Chamarande, France - 2021.

Knowledge pole

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’25s, 2015).

A bit of human knowledge, gathered inside an architecture.

4L

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2025).

It’s a flower in oneself that unfolds when we extend our eyes beyond ourselves.

Go out

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2021).

Involuntary servitude

Snippets

Video Creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2014).

The reality around us is far more fragmented space than it appears in the first instance.

Velocipede

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s , 2015).

Poetics of road signs in mountainous areas.

Cry

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’40s, 2022).

Already in the past, I knew the sadness that would come over me later.

Rebuilding

A movie by Benoît Labourdette (3’24s, 2014).

Royaumont abbey : get there and rebuild it...

The eyes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’54s, 2021).

“The harder you try to see - by staring strongly and trying not to blink - the more difficult it is to see where you are aiming.” (William Bates, “Perfect Sight Without Glasses,” 1920).

Six faces

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’31s, 2018).

Contemplating the world through a lens that multiplies it may mean finding oneself in front of oneself, feeling that one is part of the world, and rebuilding oneself in this way.

M.C.E.

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’02s, 2019).

Everyone’s utopia is perhaps a drawing centred on trust.

Faces

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’46s, 2014).

Memories, drawned on walls, faces.

Spring

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’37s, 2015).

Living the rustle of the world, between vegetal force, air power, and organization, speech and human culture, beyond the borders of all kinds.

Thought 381

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47 s, 2016).

Is reality more real than dream, or both are equal ? Based on the “Thoughts” by Blaise Pascal (17th century).

Entering the tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’25s, 2022).

Alignment with one’s nature may be much closer than we think.

H

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2025).

How to live with space left empty?

Foundations

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’30s, 2021).

What we will never see is actually very colorful and joyful.

The feminine harbour

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’21s, 2021).

Gendered meditation.

Volcano

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’42s, 2015).

From the sky comes a building, dedicated to the dream.

Eleven

Video Creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2014).

Attempt to visual representation of the vocal machine.

September 4

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’27s, 2014).

Materials and scales.

The red house

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’17s, 2020).

Back to the place that resources us.

The reason (thought 267)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’15s, 2020).

The paradox of knowing there’s so much we don’t know. IssueCan a film be a philosophical support? I.e. to be a tool to open up to the activity of thinking about the world. I think so.

Hope

Un film de Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2018).

To cling to pillars planted in the water for centuries, to hope.

Rain

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’27s, 2015).

Children’s games in the rain. Danger lurks.

The unconscious

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’08s, 2022).

Fleeting moments of connection with the mystery of our immense inner wealth.

Hesitation to life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’13s, 2022).

Some people have many more questions than others; and the range of possible actions can be so different.

The living being

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’27s, 2018).

Discovering in the materiality of the world that a work of art is not what it seems.

Look down

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’20s, 2022).

To look in the face of one’s greatest fears, for a few moments. Dive into consciousness. Build.

Rachid’s

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2014).

The small trace left on a surface, on a “skin”, is perhaps the most important thing there is.

Saint-Nazaire’s Graveyard

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’55s, 2016).

Visiting the dead is listening to their whispers.

and yet life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’06s, 2023).

It’s incomprehensible that life goes on. To mourn or to bury?

Disappearance

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’11s, 2016).

Fantasy of the disappearance of religion.

It’s already happened

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, 2022).

Sometimes everything went too fast.

Crossroads

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’00s, 2015).

Is the world began, or is it an imaginary space, built from a logical matrix ? Questions and answers at a simple crossroads.

Rung

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’36s, 2014).

Portions of a building, which transform the bodies of humans who cross.

Baby

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’50s, 2015).

Around the notion of “baby”, contrasting imaginary circulate.

Gills

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’06s, 2023).

Attempting to connect with the imperceptible essential.

Before the accident

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2015).

A few seconds before a fatal car accident.

Written in the sand

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (4’48s, 2014).

Write, read, speak... but what ? And in what language ? I dont know... I listen without trying to understand.

People’s National Theatre

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2014).

People emerged from the collective memory.

Chapel

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2021).

The time of contemplation, undoubtedly necessary before an illumination, which will always come by surprise.

Structure

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’07s, 2014).

Architectural structures, nonliving, support glare movements of life.

Mediterranean 2

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’23s, 2021).

Living Ruins of the memory of our common origins in the West.

Domesticated landscape

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’51s, 2014).

The invention of landscape.

The baroque house

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’26s, 2020).

Folds and folds of souls, architectures and life itself, made of synesthetic resonance. Gilles Deleuze adding to Leibniz.

The small group

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2025).

Are we free? How do we know? How do we live it?

What is information?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’10s, 2016).

Wonder about the foundations of language, its meaning and its forms... for men and machines.This film is part of the transmedia project “The singularity” (www.la-singularite.com).

Movement (thought 129)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 2020).

At night, truths are sometimes revealed to us so lucid that they don’t survive the return of light.

“Mi sveglia la tromba”, Alessandro Scarlatti

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’50s, 2018). Soprano: Karina Desbordes.

Unfold the world, feel the music of the past, which can open our perception of present reality.

The hill

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’20s, 2014).

The position of the body in architecture is an eternal question for me.

Being a father

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’29s, 2019).

Giving life, being, giving a hand, discovering it.

Basilica

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’44s, 2020).

Buildings have been constructed in connection with the sky. What did we lose?

H building

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’03s, 2012).

The metaphor for the journey of life of a human being through a visual journey “kaleidoscopic” in a building.

The Rational Education of Childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (on a text by Émilie Lamotte, 3’43s, 2019).

The most effective educational principles are not the ones we believe. Discovery of Emilie Lamotte’s sharp and constructive thinking. Émilie LamotteÉmilie Lamotte was a young pedagogue at the (…)

To the reason

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2021).

Good reasons to be emotional.

The small train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’,2022).

Movement of discovery of one’s own life story in front of the landscape that scrolls by the window.

46

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2016).

Numbers structure music ; thus, well focused, one can hear the singular song of no. 46 of this street...

Pipe

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’52s, 2021).

A pipe tells us about its power.

Waiting

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2021).

Waiting for... who? Someone or yourself?

Immediate take-off

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’05s, 2020).

A simple stroll can be an invitation to an immediate dazzling journey.

Removing the refugee camp in the Austerlitz train Station

A film by Benoît Labourdette ( 4’39s , 2015).

Reliefs and traces of human presence. Record the memory of places.

Extinction of a star

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’53s, 2022).

The unfathomable mysteries of the universe, inexplicable cycles, circular and unthinkable infinity. Identification with the Whole. Fragmentation.

An adult tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).

If I had known, if I could have, and yet I was always there.

Hatching of the diamond

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 2022).

Through the darkest of crossings, the most powerful inner forces can be revealed.

Wind

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’18s, 2017).

Diving inside the organic movement of the wind maybe.

Amphi-theater

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’55s, 2018).

The effect of submission relationships on the brain.

The Example

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’14s, 2018).

The importance of a work of art lies in its form, for this is how it changes the way of looking at the world.

Third eye

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’53s, 2021).

At the moment when everything tilts our third eye opens. And is discovered to us like an ultrasound of reality.

Closed for technical problems

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’05s, 2015).

The bankruptcy of a movie theater, and the words that accompany indifference.

Hsaw

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’59s, 2015).

Meeting between frogs and washing machines. Poetry in everyday life.

Sports

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette, 3’12s, 2014.

Meet the drawing of small nation on the pavement.

L.I.N.E.

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’43s, 2014).

A voice emerges from the field of image and sound.

Dislocated

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’08s, 2019).

Collective stairway descent. Attempt to exhaust a Roman place.

Stopover

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2022)

One night, time is upside downFilm textThat nightOn the way backHe did not knowThe beforeFromThe after

Theory of modern art

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’05s, 2019).

The functions and necessities of art, which is not a luxury, but life and our very nature. Quotes from Paul Klee.

Entrance 129

Video Creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’17s, 2014).

Enter somewhere. Not so simple...

Ontario Lake

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’42s, 2015).

A very large Canadian lake, metaphor for matrix, birth and disappearance.

You can imagine (thought 473)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’43s, 2021).

Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle fit together like a piece of cake... you think you’re touching heaven.

Stairwell

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’59s, 2018).

Looking at our journey, floor by floor, is not so nostalgic; it is also to decipher it in order to better draw the continuation of the journey.

Accelerated or Slowed Perspective

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’57s, 2018).

Where we discover that architecture is much less real than we imagined.

Maurits Cornelis

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2017).

From the stone are born forms, which rise up to heaven, and finally resorb themselves.

Letters from the wind

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2021).

To exist, that is to say to declare oneself to oneself, even very discreetly, that changes everything.

Salads

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’52s, 2025).

The formidable kinetic energy of human travel.

Dreamcatcher

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, 2020).

A fire that burns us, captured by nature.

Is science immoral ?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’11s, 2014).

The myth of scientific progress. According to Albert Bayet.

Interior columns

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2022).

In an architecture as in a living body, the structuring columns, the sensitive and crucial networks, are not given at first sight; they are to be discovered by a gentle exploration.

Taxis

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’16s, 2014).

Lights at night.

Map

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2014).

Humans make maps, marks, before go into action.

Organ

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’18s, 2014).

I have always been very afraid of the inside of the body.

M.C.A.

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2015).

A meeting of missing persons in a deconstructed place in transformation. Reminiscences of voices and breaths. Exploding of architectural elements, tables, chairs, windows, lamps...

This is Our Held Point

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’21s, 2019).

When an architecture made of glass reveals its intrinsic abstraction.

Thinking about moving kaleidoscope image

The criteria of compositionWhen we do the framing of an image with a camera, we often use the classical criteria of image composition, inherited from the tradition of figurative painting. Which (…)

Nature begins again (thought 121)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’22s, 2021).

Thinking the mystery of life through mathematics.

Railway Flora

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2021).

As if life was reborn, in the heart of the mechanical world, love once again visible.

F

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’12s, 2014).

Facets of a vision of the feminine, fragmentary.

Administration

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’17s, 2020).

The implacable and secular logic of the administration, the cement of our societies.

The firefly

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’04s, 2019).

In the skin of a fragile insect at night. Based on a haiku by Ôshima Ryôta (1716-1784).

Tree of life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’41s, 2021).

Even when cut down, the life of a tree transmits its memories and transforms its surroundings.

Night ride

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’36s, 2015).

Walking in his intimate night, motionless, his eyes moving behind their closed eyelids.

Pauline waits a moment

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’12s, 2018).

We’re all taking the same stairs. We meet each other there, every morning and every evening. We’re pretending nothing.

Writing it

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2015).

Exploration by word and image of the relationship between physical movement and writing.

The turbulent and the laminar

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’46s, 2021).

The mathematics of nature.