Exist

Chapter 1 : What is a photographic image ?

What is an image ? To answer this question, the first question to ask is: Why do we see? How do we see? What do we see? Keeping it simple: at the bottom of our eye, there is a “sensitive area”, which sends information to the brain, which (...)

5 July 2013

4 min

Goliath

4 September 2021

Chaosmos

A film by Richard Texier and Benoît Labourdette (8’51s, 2014).

Film Richard Texier’s paintings with a drone...

18 June 2014

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 11

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’54s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that cars don’t exist...

1 December 2009

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 9

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’43s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this train doesn’t exist anymore...

27 November 2009

The living being

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’27s, 2018).

Discovering in the materiality of the world that a work of art is not what it seems.

6 April 2018

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 10

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’11s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that fatigue doesn’t exist...

30 November 2009

Racism do not exist

A film by Benoît Labourdette (53s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: John B.).

Write the language differently, reinvent our place in the world.

28 October 2017

House of the image, Appointments of the image #6: “Intimacy, images, social networks. Existing and living together in the digital age”

Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018. Summary of the day on the website (...)

26 April 2018

3 min

Spirit Journal : article “Lives in Pictures”

I published the article “Lives in Pictures” in the June 2016 issue of the Spirit Journal on the theme “Power of Images”. Issue edited by Carole Desbarats. Presentation text of the article “Lives in Pictures” Smartphones and digital platforms have (...)

4 June 2016

3 min

Interlacing magazine: “The mental film”

From the point of view of perception, a film is only an illusion formed by our brain from visual and auditory stimuli. Images seen can produce sounds and vice versa. Each person mentally constructs a different film from the same film seen. Thus (...)

27 October 2018

13 min

I exist

Collective film (4’42s, 2016).

Exist? In time, in space, in poetry... in the image?

25 May 2016

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 1

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that the night doesn’t exist...

17 November 2009

Bring me

13 July 2021

Paris, end of August

A film by Benoît Labourdette, 4 minutes, 2009, digital, Scope 2.35, Color, stereo.

We meet a homeless in the street and we forget, one minute later.

31 December 2009

Putting things in order and making them public takes time, but it’s important, because it’s what gives existence.

If it stays in the bottom of my computer, I might as well say that it doesn’t exist, at all. And it will never exist, that’s one of the natures of digital.

5 July 2017

1 min

Visual art

Because of the mechanical nature of its technical function, photography is for me a matter of time rather than a visual matter : in its silver salts, or its pixels today, it is time which is captured, preserved, reinvented at every glance. Time (...)

Calligrams

Collection of poems. Musical inspiration and graphic matter. It is the matter of a sound associated with the matter of the writing with the hand which give birth to the text. The sound is no longer there, it is behind the existence of the line. (...)