France Doc : “Documentary experiences : childhood”

As part of the session “Documentary experiences : childhood” organized by FranceDoc, April 24, 2015 at 19:30 at EnCours in Paris, screening of the film :Vire, next stop (Benoît Labourdette 3’48, 2013). Full program of the session (...)

Vélizy

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’04s, 2013).

I had always felt guilty for the first time that I had cheated in class. No more.

Cubes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’48s, 2013).

This old house and this rain remain me a memory from when I was a child, in a classroom...

Human movement

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.

Vire, next stop

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’48s, 2013).

One day a train. Chopped audiovisual form, from which emerge childhood memories, confrontation with the self-forgetfulness.

Backseat

Game

I want a kiss

A film by Barbara Gougeon, Linda Fardon, Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, silent, 2018).

A chaste encounter.

Piano

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2015).

A frustrated desire since childhood, who finally seems to open.

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.

Night road

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’44s, 2013).

“Small child at the bottom of the back seat of the car, travel and night lights are not very real. With the help of tire, three minutes of travel on the street appear three long hours of contemplative abstract experiences.”

Each in turn

Collective film (1’55s, 2013).

Prepare all of us together for the adventure.

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 (...)

Back to childhood

A film by Benoîtenoît Labourdette (2’10s, 2023).

Life was a gift.

Bell tower

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’26s, 2013).

On the way to autofiction, a conversation between a father and his son, played by the same voice.

You’re beautiful

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’30s, 2000).

From a loop of an ambiance sound of an amateur video, building a digital abstract object, that the soundtrack anthropomorphise.

Baby

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’50s, 2015).

Around the notion of “baby”, contrasting imaginary circulate.

What am I? I am

The Rational Education of Childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (on a text by Émilie Lamotte, 3’43s, 2019).

The most effective educational principles are not the ones we believe. Discovery of Emilie Lamotte’s sharp and constructive thinking. Émilie LamotteÉmilie Lamotte was a young pedagogue at the beginning of the twentieth century. She is (...)