At the Venice stadium

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’11s, 2018).

A traumatic event disrupts the past, the present and the notion of reality.

The wire

Film by Benoît Labourdette (8’34s, 2016).

Documentary on the painting exhibition “The wire” by Benoît Labourdette, Paris, October 2016.

My life is the work of creation, it is my axis.

Around this axis, many things happen, there is work to earn a living, there are love relationships, there are friendships. But my axis is creation. It is what is stable, what I always continue to (...)

Chamarande

Series of photographs taken at the Domain of Chamarande (Essonne, France) on January 1, 2021.

A year standing.The sun in the trees, illuminating the earth, water and nature of which we are a part, on this first day of a new year, fills me with wonder and brings me these wishes, inspired by the words of my friends. I recite them to (...)

Trees and a woman

A film by Françoise Simpère and Benoît Labourdette (6’38s, 2020).

A walk, an intimate dialogue with oneself and with nature, a path to find oneself, to be in the world. A film born from a dialogue between images and text.

Marseille Soap

Drift over

Left out in the cold

Talk to me

Collective film (4’22s, 2019).

They lost, or they won, they testify atypically.

Wings

A short documentary by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2011).

Fate of the world leads me to cross a sculpture by Richard Texier in the port of La Rochelle, in July 2011. A correspondence, written and filmed, follows.

On steel

The planning

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2019).

Many lovers? How to manage the schedule?

Need

Words sown on images

Series of 29 photographs illuminated by words.

On my proposal, people have written words opposite images chosen from the thousands that I propose on my website, those that “jumped out at them” and gave birth to words, which illuminate them and dig them, or sculpt them, in return.Life, (...)