Identicals Series

“Identicals, the daily impressions” : impressions of everyday life, short episodes, less than 2 minutes, kinds “look at stopping” the fleeting moments, which, if one stops for a moment, reveal their depth.

The starting point of my use of video scratch in the narrative register, enabled through the first online virtual editing tools, appeared in 1997, I immediately explored.

Selection of the day: « The red carpet »

Allegory on exclusion..

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A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 1999).

The red carpet

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 1999).

Allegory on exclusion..

The puddle of vomit

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’00s, 1998).

Someone vomited on the sidewalk. The crowd walking avoiding the puddle of vomit. Someone feels the pain of one who was there a few minutes before, and vomited because he had too much. The pain of (…)

Closed trash

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’16, 1997).

Passing a closed trash can, a Japanese tourist remembers the words of his father, who told him the bomb, and the feeling of being alive while others died.

Docks of Marne

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’51s, 1997).

The daily trip pain in the Paris suburbs.