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Lifeline

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2000).
19 May 2000. Published by Benoît Labourdette.

Lateral travelling.

This video creation, silent is to be projected in a loop on a flat large (32") video screen on the wall like a painting.

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Nuclear Submarine
Nuclear Submarine

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2000).

Words underwater.
My hand
My hand

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’15s, 2000).

Mix of colors.
Somebody is here
Somebody is here

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2000).

Repetitive synthetic voice that seeks to feel the incarnation behind the abstraction.
Lifeline
Lifeline

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2000).

Lateral travelling.
You're beautiful
You’re beautiful

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’30s, 2000).

From a loop of an ambiance sound of an amateur video, building a digital abstract object, that the soundtrack anthropomorphise.
It turns
It turns

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.
Straight line towards the end
Straight line towards the end

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (5’40s, 2000).

Speaking words is like drawing your own life line.
Death by my side
Death by my side

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (6’20s, 2000).

Living shadows.
Global Network
Global Network

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’40s, 2000).

It was the beginning of the internet. Evocation of the fascination of browsing.
Knife in the stomach
Knife in the stomach

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

If there was a personal theme in this film, it should be filling a form, the body. The paradigm shift made by digital on this question of fullness : everything is overflow.
It was a video game
It was a video game

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (3’40s, 2000).

Electronic travelling.
Human movement
Human movement

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.
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Global Network

In 2000, I designed a series of 12 films to be broadcasted in loops in different precise ways. “2D” Aesthetics of these purely plastic and infographic films is set in relation to the fact that the television screens at the time have lost their depth.

The musical tracks of the movies are also avalaible.

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Life

Computer graphics

Abstraction

2D
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