Feature films

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.

Selection of the day: « Head in the water »

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

Link to the complete film description

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

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

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

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

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2007, 1h04’).

SynopsisOne man and one anonymous anonymous evokes the difficulty of living in broad daylight in the shadow of the most fatal hour of contemporary history. The shadowy memory of the Holocaust (…)

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

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.