A dog

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’30s, silent, 2016).

A body-gaze, the human extends its senses.

Dancer : Loïe Fuller

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’28s, silent, 2020).

Mise en abyme of the presence of human bodies as abstractions, through time, techniques and cultures.

Exquisite objects

Collective film (3’04s, 2020).

The image of oneself, the images of others, which are projected on each other..

Stars of yesterday

Collective film (1’37s, 2014).

Sentiments of abandonment...

The boys

Autonomous collective film (9’09s, 2019).

The camera circulates, goes from hand to hand, between boys of all ages, inviting us to share emotions, interactions, issues...

Paul Valéry University (Montpellier - France) : “Drone-camera, deportation of the gaze” (conference)

Filming with a drone singularly change the view of the world, and perhaps the film writing, in political and sensitive aspects.As part of the study day “Framing/deframing Editing/Disediting - The aesthetic challenges of connected audiovisual (...)

Drawing on architecture

The projected image is an extremely rich track to animate architecture, private or public space, the theatre stage. I have been experimenting with it for a long time in the field of live performance as well as in public space. For life to be (...)

T2JV : Portrait of Benoît Labourdette

Benoît Labourdette’s video interview about the “Pocket Films” workshops, as part of the project Vitrolles échangeur..

Trailer of the International Women’s Film Festival 2023

A film by Benoît Labourdette (28s & 8s, 2023).

Through their thoughts, their actions, their words, their images... women have built their emancipation. 45th edition of the International Women’s Film Festival (from 24 march to 2 april 2023).From a series of photographs by Karine Saporta, (...)

Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire : “The mutations of cinema”

Anthropologies of cinematographic devices, by Jean-Louis Comolli, Benoît Labourdette and Vincent Sorrel.The Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire offer as part of their 27th one-day seminar, 20 August 2015: “The mutations of cinema”. (...)

Cinematheque of Martigues : “From the sensitive to the camera”

The Cinematheque of Martigues offers a program of films by Benoît Labourdette. “From the sensitive to the camera”Benoît Labourdette’s film program, from April 1 to 15, 2017, as part of the exhibition “Films in the Pockets”.Presentation (...)

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 7

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’18s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this poster is a face...

“VR can still enter everyday use”

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Pablo Maillé in Usbek & Rica media.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has not yet been appropriated by the general public. It seems interesting to me to take a step aside, playful, to build our critical mind on VR. The Usbek & Rica media interviewed me on this (...)

Surveillance cameras

For a few months at the end of 2010, I am committed to photographing cameras to observe the machines through which we observed in our knowledge everywhere and all the time. This has produced this series of 52 photographs. Dare to face the eye (...)

iMédiacinéma 2013 - Films in competition

Films in competition Splash! Abstract If you guys ... The homeless of darkness In Green The cascade of two stools The Young and the Restless Watch where you step Who is it? - Toilets for girls Dream fighters emotions Muted Cinderella modified (...)

The idea factory: “We tested a 360° camera shooting”

Article on thethe blog of the Canope Media Library about a virtual reality filmmaking workshop led by Benoît Labourdette.We tested a 360° camera shooting - The idea factory We tested a 360-degree camera shootingNUMOK, the digital (...)