Rain
Children’s games in the rain. Danger lurks.
(I suggest to watch in full screen, because some important parts aren’t visible in small size)
Film shot in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
Thoughts
The marriage of acoustic music and synthetic music, of nature and culture, of land and water, of slow and speed, of digital image and rough reality, of IT calculations and organic life... to the pursuit of a childhood feeling of contact of light hot rain on the skin.
- Rain (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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Rain
Soundtracks
Notes ginned like rain.Instrumental, 2015, 2’27s. Composition and interpretation of Benoît Labourdette (piano and synthesizer). -
The descent Collective film (4’33s, 2015).
Stairway to freedom. -
Remember here by the window A collective film, initiated and edited by Benoît Labourdette (1h01’, 2009-2020).
Look out your window at home, and think of an important memory.This collective film is composed of 44 videos (among 500 made) shot by people in (…) -
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. -
Earth A collective film directed by Benoît Labourdette (1’43s, silent, 2017, collective : Alice, Morgane, Romain, Benoît).
The meaning of life on earth, summarized by a few key words.