Tell me LED

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2016, 1h06’).

Film made of permanent layering of images and sounds, as in writing a chorus of self-creation through artistic expression.Choral work as part of a creative residency at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil in 2015.

When it comes to music, I feel like I suck, that I don’t know the rules, that I should know how to play, that I should know all the technique, etc.

When in fact, I just understood my way of making music: I record things, rushes, as I do with images, as I feel, and whose value is in what is happening in a unique way at the moment I record them. I feel that a magic is possible, and that’s (...)

I have an extremely singular way of making cinema, by shooting things only when I feel them, by preparing myself, etc. I feel legitimate, even if I remain in the margins. I feel legitimate, even if I remain in the margins. I know the value of preparing myself to improvise.

Improvise

The fact that I work on the encounter, fortuitous, if you will, it really, really makes sense.

I take the freedom and the risk. And when encounters take place, it is a real of real existence that emerges, just as gametes that meet to give life to a being, it is chance that makes them meet and combine, and it is this chance, linked to all (...)

Calligraphy #11

Listen to the people around you and write down some of their words.

Tente

Running in a little stride on a fresh grass of the morning dew.Instrumental Music, 2017, 2’53s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Improvisation carried out under private signature, July 24, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette (...)

Chairs

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’26s, 2012). Musical improvisation by Olivier Mellano.

We all sat on chairs in classrooms. We make these chairs ? What do they give us ?How they welcome us ? Can we look at them differently than in a utilitarist point of view ? Besides, are they not utilitarian ? They pass, through their design, (...)

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 (...)

Emulation

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2018, pseudonym: Bob).

Transmission is emulation, fertilization of the soul.

By my window: Film what you see through a window in your home, and tell about an important memory.

Video platform

On 1 April 2020, during the period of confinement in France, I opened the video contribution platform www.parmafenetre.fr..Following the numerous feedbacks I received, creating these films, as much as watching them, did a lot of good to (...)

Le leaf

Sticky and granular emotional touches.Instrumental Music, 2017, 2’57s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Public improvisation carried out as part of a creative evening “Le fil”, June 30, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette (...)

Le feel

Forget yourself in a gentle rhythm that drifts.Instrumental music, 2017, 3’21s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Public improvisation carried out as part of a creative evening “Le fil”, June 30, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette (...)

It’s not necessarily what took the longest to make that has the most artistic value.

Often I realize, with what I have people do, that they don’t realize themselves the value of what they have done. And yet it has great value, but it’s beyond them. Well for me it’s the same, there are things that I do, that require little (...)

I kill them. They do.

A film by un ten years old child (9’04s, 2019).

Living in the inner world of a 10-year-old child, through a truculent walk with him in the neighborhood.

Not to restrict myself anymore. To put myself in states of trance, and to let raw, powerful things come out, all that I have in me that is ultra rich to transmit.

Putting up fewer barriers. Create, more often, moments of trance.

Do not hesitate to build narratives, based on images already shot.

I have the right to systematize the principle a bit. Of course, there have been the few explicit shorts, where you do it as a game, which is anecdotal, like the one where the director tells people what to do.But what is recurrent, in almost (...)

And Flexible

Lying down, not being able to move, but turning your head, trying to look behind you.Instrumental music, 2017,2’19s. Improvisation of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Improvisation realized under private seing on January 1,2018.