Tree

The tree, a perennial plant, is much more mobile than we think. It is very strong to approach a tree. This life form runs through a number of my films.

Flowers from the grave, video/organic installation, Garden Festival of Chaumont sur Loire

Video-vegetal installation. Into the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur Loire, the landscape architect Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has created a vegetable sculpture, in a basement, as a large liana levitating in the dark. I worked on (...)

8 May 2014

1 min

Earth

A collective film directed by Benoît Labourdette (1’43s, silent, 2017, collective : Alice, Morgane, Romain, Benoît).

The meaning of life on earth, summarized by a few key words.

29 July 2017

Colossal garden

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Bob Boss).

When nature brings us back to the Sacred.

3 June 2017

Little Isabelle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’54s, silent, 2019, pseudonym: Marc Z.).

Social networks benefit from everything, even human tragedies.

27 February 2019

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 (...)

2 January 2021

1 min

The baroque house

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’26s, 2020).

Folds and folds of souls, architectures and life itself, made of synesthetic resonance. Gilles Deleuze adding to Leibniz.

9 August 2020

Uprooted

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’01s, 2021).

To see oneself in front of the roots of a tree.

22 May 2021

Bridge

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

A bridge over the Marne. Classic about the Impressionist painters. Reinterpreted in my own way, in addition and subtraction of pixels of different times.

14 June 2013

My ticket

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2021).

What is inhabiting?

17 June 2021

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 8

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this tree is a real tree...

27 November 2009

Immediate take-off

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’05s, 2020).

A simple stroll can be an invitation to an immediate dazzling journey.

30 December 2020

Observe an obscure oblique obstacle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’59s, 2016).

Political commitment begins in look and name what we see.

8 August 2016

Main-hand (hand studies 12)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’09s, 2021).

The hand that accompanies, the hand that reveals, the hand that touches.

13 March 2021

Stars of yesterday

Collective film (1’37s, 2014).

Sentiments of abandonment...

6 November 2014

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 2013, in creative workshops led by Benoît Labourdette. (...)

24 March 2020

What is a town

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2019).

A place visited today, empty, where I lived so many things a long time ago.

15 November 2019

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.

14 August 2020

La fenêtre de chez moi

Un film de Laura (0’43s, 2009).

Simple description of her bedroom window.

22 December 2009

The window

A film by Tristan (0’05s, 2009).

So beautiful fragile poetry of the lack of inspiration.

24 December 2009

Rain

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’27s, 2015).

Children’s games in the rain. Danger lurks.

21 February 2015

Collection de connexions

Collective film (4’34s, 2016).

In nature, objects share their digital experiences.

30 April 2016

Six faces

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’31s, 2018).

Contemplating the world through a lens that multiplies it may mean finding oneself in front of oneself, feeling that one is part of the world, and rebuilding oneself in this way.

5 December 2018

Spring

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’37s, 2015).

Living the rustle of the world, between vegetal force, air power, and organization, speech and human culture, beyond the borders of all kinds.

4 May 2015

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.

12 February 2015

Je veux être un arbre

A film by Benoît Labourdette (37s, silent, 2017).

Behind barks, utopia.

8 July 2017

Myopia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’33s, 2021).

Myopia can be triggered by trauma. We are left with poetry.

1 July 2021

Rachid’s

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2014).

The small trace left on a surface, on a “skin”, is perhaps the most important thing there is.

22 February 2014

Administration

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’17s, 2020).

The implacable and secular logic of the administration, the cement of our societies.

30 December 2020

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 13

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’55s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that these air launchers are flame throwers...

9 December 2009

Call for air Arras

Benoît Labourdette’s movies in a travelling projection program in Arras (France). In the context of the manifestation of contemporary art “Call for air” in Arras, I proposed a travelling screening of a selection of my films. Projections on walls, (...)

20 March 2016

2 min

Speech objects

Collective film (4’11s, 2016).

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

22 June 2016

Velocipede

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s , 2015).

Poetics of road signs in mountainous areas.

1 May 2015

Just a tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette - text by Sonia Leplat (1’28s, 2021).

Thinking, overthinking...

28 March 2021

If objects could talk

Collective film (3’, 2013).

[At the water’s edge, we confide in each other.]

24 October 2013

This is Our Held Point

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’21s, 2019).

When an architecture made of glass reveals its intrinsic abstraction.

21 June 2019

Parisian sidewalk

Series of photographs. Variation on the experience of a Parisian sidewalk. Shoot with the body, the hand that triggers the camera being an integral part of the optical system. Its presence before / with the objective diffracts the light rays to (...)

25 August 2015

1 min

Hand studies 8

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’31s, 2010).

A tree in the middle of a street. It’s simple and banal. But if we explore its surface, its bark, we discover stories. All the stories that took place around, including the tree retains traces, etched on him, like so many tattoos. Love, venue, (...)

4 August 2010

My home window

Un film de Christopher (0’50s, 2009).

Almost without comment, the image speaks alone, its deep and simple language.

22 December 2009

Dead leaf

A film by Benoît Labourdette (8’33s, 2012).

A little piece of nature in the middle of the city is a microcosm of nature impulses of life. Love, the mix of bodies, dramas, reunion, always. Crosses of stories on feelings and bodies.

2 January 2012

La boîte aux lettres

Collective film (1’51s, 2019).

Post the images in 360°, literally.

14 September 2019

At the station

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2016).

The intimate perception of the inner voices of passing humans, which leads to a choice of life.

22 December 2016

Country Appointment

Collective film (3’27s, 2015).

In nature, objects sing to give themselves courage.

15 April 2015

Tree of life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’41s, 2021).

Even when cut, the life of a tree is transmitted and multiplied.

17 April 2021

Already the architecture

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2018).

Contemplative quest for meaning in an abandoned summer camp.

30 December 2018

And Flexible

Lying down, not being able to move, but turning your head, trying to look behind you. Instrumental music, 2017,2’19s. Improvisation of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers). Improvisation realized under private seing on January (...)

1 January 2018

Dreamcatcher

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, 2020).

A fire that burns us, captured by nature.

11 August 2020

End of the silent movie

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’31s, 2021).

At times, time and space are reversed.

22 January 2021

The comeback of Master Sakho

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’08s, silent, 2017).

Prepare for a troubled comeback.

14 August 2017

Innovation

Shoot movies with mobile phones as of 2005, when cameras appear in phones, shoot movies with drones from 2013, when he sold quantities at Christmas, use standalone portable projectors to project movies in the streets, deflect the techniques of (...)

Musical Creations

Musical creations, often improvised, usually made with an analog synthesizer, in public or private. For improvisations, the general principle is to play a single instrument, to create the whole sound live. No pre-existing rhythm on which to (...)