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Collective film (4’57s, 2019).
3 June 2019. Published by Benoît Labourdette.
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A double staircase going up and down, objects coming in from all over the world, a common desire.

Film made at the Fémis Summer University, as part of the inaugural workshop, led by Benoît Labourdette.

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When objects share their experience of deconfinement..
We are together
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Teenage objects share their various dreams.
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Collective film (7’22s, 2017).

Words dance to make racism and discrimination vanish.
Timetology
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Collective film (2’37s, 2020).

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Collective film (6’24s, 2014).

Inspirations in a place of spirituality.
Spin the cam'
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Collective film (3’10s, 2019).

A revolt of objects against the Internet and its uses.
The hectic life of our objects
The hectic life of our objects

Collective film (3’49s, 2018).

When everyone finds in himself his richness, his inner joy.
Still speech
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Collective film (3’19s, 2018).

The little object people of a building courtyard.
Reactions
Reactions

Collective film (1’37s, 2018).

Pictures escape from the books and express their desire for freedom.
Mobile Creation Colloquium
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Collective film (17’40s, 2012).

A phone frees its mind.
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

Collective film (5’07s, 2016).

Books and their characters talk to each other, like or dislike their image.
Image bazaar
Image bazaar

Collective film (2’00s, 2019).

Lost in the City of Science and Industry, objects share their questions about their relationship to images.
From you to me
From you to me

Collective film (15’25s, 2015).

A movie theater wakes up.
Talk to me
Talk to me

Collective film (4’22s, 2019).

They lost, or they won, they testify atypically.
The Union of Objects
The Union of Objects

Collective film (1’51s, 2017).

Objects foment their future freedom.
Objectively
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Collective film (2’43s, 2018).

Objects rise.
Bounces
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Through a walk through each other’s photographs, an old library becomes the place where looks and lives meet in depth.
Bernard Bru, chapter 2
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Collective film (5’27s, 2015).

Imaginary in the history of financial mathematics.
Prison break
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Collective film (2’28s, 2017).

Objects, which we imagine have been incarcerated, share their experiences.
Objective(s)
Objective(s)

Collective film (5’49s, 2018).

Anthropomorphic introspections at school.
Imagination
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Collective film (5’28s, 2020).

When talking objects teach us that digital can create human connection.
I want to tell you something
I want to tell you something

Collective film (3’38s, 2016).

What if the books spoke?
The room next door
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Collective film (2’47s, 2019).

When media objects revolt.
I can hear you
I can hear you

Collective film (5’21s, 2018).

In a movie theater, atypical travelers discuss their lives.
Speech objects
Speech objects

Collective film (4’11s, 2016).

In a park, games of seduction of things at pivotal moments in their lives.
Words from objects
Words from objects

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (2’45s, 2022).

Objects on social networks share their emotions
It happened far from home
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When objects also decide to tackle their problems with digital technology.
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A collective movie (3’05s, 2021).

They all have strong desires, but they feel alone and abandoned.
Inanimate thoughts
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Lost and found objects
Lost and found objects

Collective film (4’41s, 2014).

Abandoned on the ground, these objects wonder about their lives.
Social objects
Social objects

Collective film (2’14s, 2019).

Assuming self-image on social networks: not so easy!
The curved lounge
The curved lounge

Collective film (3’02s, 2015).

Hands of humans from all over the world are talking through their tattoos, to music in a building by Le Corbusier.
Stars of yesterday
Stars of yesterday

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Sentiments of abandonment...
The fight
The fight

Collective film (0’54s, 2019).

How do we find good reasons to leave and fight?
Interconnected expressions
Interconnected expressions

A collective film (3’14s, 2021).

Out of the drawers, they come to life and express themselves.
Bring in the objects
Bring in the objects

Collective film (4’37s, 2019).

Intimate testimonials of objects that feel lonely or abandoned.
Today, I am...
Today, I am...

A collective movie (4’19s, 2021).

They wake up, and are determined to get on with their lives!
Steps
Steps

Collective film (4’57s, 2019).

A double staircase going up and down, objects coming in from all over the world, a common desire.
The skewer
The skewer

Collective film (4’36s, 2019).

In a movie theatre, the objects of our daily lives talk about life with social networks.
Rhysome
Rhysome

Collective film (3’38s, 2019).

Crossed nostalgias in a cinema theater full of history.
In front of our eyes
In front of our eyes

Collective film (3’10s, 2021).

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Putting yourself in the other person’s shoes

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

Collective empathy exercise.
If objects could talk
If objects could talk

Collective film (3’, 2013).

[At the water’s edge, we confide in each other.]
Objects have a soul
Objects have a soul

Collective film (2’12s, 2018).

On a beach, the sharing of inanimate summerers’ experiences.
Even them
Even them

Collective film (1’45s, 2020).

Harassed or stalker, how the functions lock each other up.
Exquisite objects
Exquisite objects

Collective film (3’04s, 2020).

The image of oneself, the images of others, which are projected on each other..
In object life?
In object life?

Collective film (2’54s, 2019).

When objects from a carving workshop wake up...
Bring in the objects
Bring in the objects

Collective film (1’56s, 2016).

From the end of the world, from the end of time, crossings on a terrace.
Westward direction
Westward direction

Collective film (7’30s, 2019).

Digital things whisper their existence in our ears.
Things story
Things story

Collective film (4’25s, 2017).

Small depresses of the everyday objects.
Collection de connexions
Collection de connexions

Collective film (4’34s, 2016).

In nature, objects share their digital experiences.
Melting friends
Melting friends

Collective film (4’32s, 2020)

When images and objects close to the body lead to shared collective memories of important moments.
Rights Story
Rights Story

A collective movie (2’42s, 2021).

Speaking objects illustrate the eight « cultural rights ».
The descent
The descent

Collective film (4’33s, 2015).

Stairway to freedom.
Fast Forward
Fast Forward

Collective film (1’35s, 2020).

If we want to go too fast, obsolescence is waiting for us.
Delusional objects
Delusional objects

Collective film (7’22s, 2018).

Simple everyday objects share their interiority.
What if I were outside?
What if I were outside?

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The memories of each person combined create a collective sensitive space, of which the library is rich.
Each in turn
Each in turn

Collective film (1’55s, 2013).

Prepare all of us together for the adventure.
See or be seen
See or be seen

Collective film (3’29s, 2019).

Objects share their vision of ecology and the future.
The dead-end life of objects
The dead-end life of objects

Collective film (2’34s, 2013).

Not being where you want to be.
Miracle smugglers
Miracle smugglers

Collective film (3’05s, 2020).

Shared joy after a film session.
Fight Men
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Collective film (1’36s, 2019).

When technology, money and organization are put at the service of violence.
Personal inventories
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Collective film (7’17s, 2019).

The vision, the hearing, the framing, the screens, the contemporary audiovisual practices... when it is the objects themselves that speak about it!
The hidden side
The hidden side

Collective film (4’07s, 2016).

The calm introspective intimacy of everyday objects.
I exist
I exist

Collective film (4’42s, 2016).

Exist? In time, in space, in poetry... in the image?
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Collective film (2’48s, 2018).

Lost things, between the city and nature.
Gossip
Gossip

Collective film (5’19s, 2018).

A group of objects is preparing for his departure for summer camp.
Fragments of lives
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A collective movie (3’20s, 2022).

By sharing all our views, even the most intimate ones, we become stronger!
16 moments of solitude
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Collective film (6’15s, 2020)

Like a little story of writing and looking, from paper to screens.
The unspoken words of the objects
The unspoken words of the objects

Collective film (5’52s, 2014).

The unexpected little people of a movie theater.
  Collective films

Within the framework of professional trainings, educational workshops and other cultural activities, I regularly propose the production of collective films. Strong moments of group formation, sharing of imagination. Here is the principle: in plan sequence, the camera is transmitted from hand to hand, each person giving voice to an object, which they film.

More than 200 such films have been produced since 2010. Find some of them here.

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