Extinction of a star

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’53s, 2022).

The unfathomable mysteries of the universe, inexplicable cycles, circular and unthinkable infinity. Identification with the Whole. Fragmentation.

Hatching of the diamond

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 2022).

Through the darkest of crossings, the most powerful inner forces can be revealed.

Pathway to the light

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’48s, 2022).

The path towards its end is not linear, it is woven in several stages, in layers that are not successive but concurrent, it is new and singular, it is at all times surprising, unexpected.

Going to the sea?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2022).

Not yet understanding the disappearance of his child. Looking for him. Not finding him. Try to change the perspective.

Funérals

I.M.L. (Institute of Legal Medicine)

Series of 66 photographs from behind the tree in front.

Your temporary room was there for a fortnight before we moved you to your final resting place.

An adult tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).

If I had known, if I could have, and yet I was always there.

Why why why

Cry

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’40s, 2022).

Already in the past, I knew the sadness that would come over me later.

Remembering Alice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’40s, 2017). With Marion Geerebaert.

A mother returns in the footsteps of her missing daughter. The work of mourning, like the work of birth, is a work of unconditional love.

Little man

Series of 55 photographs of the projection of a missing person.

I’ve seen you for a long time, and now I understand your particular gait, flattened on the ground, for ever immobile. I try to replay the film but I can’t, there is only one step left in your movement.

Perfect suicide

That light

A flm by Benoît Labourdette (1’36s, 2022).

One night, as if nothing had happened.

Soft Fossil

Series of 66 photographs in the heat.

A dead and frozen being comes back to life by dancing around it.

Are you calling for help?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’01s, 2022).

Step by step, the quest for life, meeting a tragic fate.

Back in time

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2023).

What if, what if, what if... sometimes you wish you could turn back the clock.

ROSEBUD 2022, the end of cinema

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’45s, 2022).

To grieve is to carry more weight. It is to live with the absence. It is to become more lucid. It means having to be stronger. It is to be more joyful of everything.

Then came the morning

Hesitation to life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’13s, 2022).

Some people have many more questions than others; and the range of possible actions can be so different.

As the bird flies

Series of 55 animal photographs.

What if we put ourselves in the head of a bird? What if we tried to paint its emotions, its look, its vision of the world?

C’est déjà passé

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, 2022).

Sometimes everything went too fast.

and yet life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’06s, 2023).

It’s incomprehensible that life goes on. To mourn or to bury?

I listen to silence

The fold

Series of 80 photographs of light.

Unfolded folds illuminated in the unheard-of night of a gaze that lives again.

Deceased child

Calligram workshops for children

As part of the poetry biennial “Les ailleurs” in Charleville-Mézières.

Creative calligraphy workshops, using graphics, movement, writing, music and digital technology, for two elementary school classes in Charleville-Mézières. Half a day per class. Poetry in the classroom?A poet comes into a classroom. How can we (…)

Reflection alone

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’38s, 2022).

How to find oneself and the world after the shock?

Tree of life

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

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

Making a grave

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’45s, 2023).

Finally, finding a way to exist oneself in the absence of the other.

Relic

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’49s, 2024).

How can we give a place in our Life to those who have left?

“Loop” : collective exhibition (Lyon Particule Gallery)

Video installation.

Video installation in tribute to my late son, as part of the group exhibition “Loop” at the Lyon Particule Gallery (Lyon, France).Visitors were invited to take pictures of the exhibition and of themselves in the exhibition, which they could (…)

A seated man

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’37s, 2022).

The work of mourning, such a slow movement of life.

Imagine Absence

Black series

A film by Benoît Labourdette (10’06s, 2015). With Marion Geerebaert.

After the death was sown into arbitrariness, a young woman comes back to haunt her mate.

The small train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’,2022).

Movement of discovery of one’s own life story in front of the landscape that scrolls by the window.

Little moon

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2023).

I try to look further, to feel deeper.

Waves are water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).

Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh.

Build antifragility for cultural projects

Methodological proposal.

What methodology should be adopted to build cultural projects that have the capacity to tame uncertainty and thus become more deeply rooted in their objectives? Methodological proposal, based on the thesis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the (…)

Fragile source

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’25s, 2022).

Homage. Imagine your way. As I can. Without knowing. For you. You are no longer. There. For Hippolyte.

Teachers’ lounge

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 2012).

Everyday life without apparent problems, in this teacher’s room of a high school near Paris. But it conceals dark secrets... a fiction inspired by real events.Ten years after the making of this film, my reality came to collide with the fiction (…)

Next train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2024).

Time stands still. And then life returns. Pain is life. Sweetness is life. Replications. Messages. Double helix. Heal. ExtensionsWhen we live through borderline or traumatic experiences, we may find ourselves experiencing time in a way that (…)

A tree in tears grows again

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2023).

Life after.

Two hands

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’07s, 2023).

How to accompany the one who is no longer there?