Feature films

Head in the water

I’ve directed six feature films. They are singular films, each made with an atypical approach. They are shown publicly from time to time, in a dimension of exceptional encounter, as is that with a live performance. They can be viewed in their entirety here.

Sélection du jour : « Triton »

SynopsisUn homme seul et anonyme parmi les anonymes évoque sa difficulté à vivre en plein jour à l’ombre des heures les plus funestes de l’Histoire contemporaine. Le souvenir ombrageux de la Shoah obscurcit le quotidien où se cherche, désespérément, une légèreté à jamais perdue. A partir d’images et de sons, fragments de foule et de ville récoltés pendant deux ans, l’auteur peuple le grand (…)

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Un film de Benoît Labourdette (2007, 1h04’).

Remember here by the window

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 France, Algeria and Tunisia, between 2009 and (…)

Tell me LED

Tell me LED

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2016, 1h06’).

Film made of permanent layering of images and sounds, as in writing a chorus of self-creation through artistic expression.Choral work as part of a creative residency at the Maison Populaire de (…)

Unaware actors

Unaware actors

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1h03’, 2008).

A 30-day diary, 30 shots-sequence. Meetings, people, animals and places, from bottom to top. The search for what is hidden behind the appearances of the trivial. Chance and necessity.

Triton

Triton

Un film de Benoît Labourdette (2007, 1h04’).

SynopsisUn homme seul et anonyme parmi les anonymes évoque sa difficulté à vivre en plein jour à l’ombre des heures les plus funestes de l’Histoire contemporaine. Le souvenir ombrageux de la (…)

Tire

Tire

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2000, 1h03 ’).

SynopsisOn digital images digitally reworked where fugitive anonymous silhouettes goes on, a poetic monologue book a disenchanted vision of ghostly ballet of modern life. (Forum des Images)

Head in the water

Head in the water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1h07’, 1994).

A tale of naivety and double personality, accompanied by Balinese songs and improvised jazz.Shot in Super 8 cinema. First self-produced feature film.