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 film by Benoît Labourdette (2’00s, 1998).
Someone vomited on the sidewalk. The crowd walking avoiding the puddle of vomit. Someone feels the pain of one who was there a few minutes before, and vomited because he had too much. The pain of the excluded.
An exhibition “Witnesses of deportation” was proposed to the City Council of the 3rd district of Paris in April 2014.April 28, 2014, as part of the evening tribute to Charlotte Delbo, screening of the film « Spectra » by Benoît Labourdette, (...)
Chomo (1907-1999) quotes. “We are not on the earth to make money, eat and have sex. We are on the earth to evolve.” “Before, we mimicked, in art, the truth (reality). Now, we have understood, I have understood that we can represent dreams. I (...)
Painting is the original material of plastic work, which is intimately connected with photography, because it also contains the time of its gesture and its imagination.
In 2000, I designed a series of 12 films to be broadcasted in loops in different precise ways. “2D” Aesthetics of these purely plastic and infographic films is set in relation to the fact that the television screens at the time have lost their (...)
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).