In the morning, the bookseller and his employee “take stock” of the books on the tables. The ones that are often bought, the ones that need to be moved. The bookseller tells her boss about certain books and their interest. She gives pictures of (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2020).
Sexuality, that intimate space that we experience as natural and spontaneous, is in fact largely constructed by our culture. For more sexual fulfillment, a first exercise in deconstructing codes, in the sequel to Martin Page and his book (...)
Why not, but it’s still very intimate, so I think it’s good if it exists in an intimate way too.
It is my greatest amibition. Cf. Varda or Rohmer. It is not to want to make “commercial” cinema, which fits into a flow, it is not to be a businessman, it is to be an artist, to propose and dig a universe, in which I lead people to discover. (...)
A word that expresses the encounter, the most powerful emotion, how to write it itself?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’36s, 2015).
Walking in his intimate night, motionless, his eyes moving behind their closed eyelids.
A flim by Benoît Labourdette (3’08s, 2021).
Getting back in touch with nature is not that simple.
A collective film, initiated and edited by Benoît Labourdette (1h01’, 2009-2020).
Look out your window at home, and think of an important memory.This collective film is composed of 44 videos (among 500 made) shot by people in France, Algeria and Tunisia, between 2009 and 2013, in creative workshops led by Benoît (...)
Collective film (3’49s, 2018).
When everyone finds in himself his richness, his inner joy.
The Cinematheque of Martigues offers a program of films by Benoît Labourdette. “From the sensitive to the camera”Benoît Labourdette’s film program, from April 1 to 15, 2017, as part of the exhibition “Films in the Pockets”.Presentation (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’58s, 2019).
The staging of our intimate journey through daily information. Would the world be transparent?
Video capture of a collective creation directed by Benoît Labourdette. Played on March 26, 2016 at the CNSAD (15 minutes).
“Today, almost everyone takes the stage on digital networks, takes a presence in the gaze of others by self-portraits interposed. What about the place of our lives? What can the theater stage, representation, and poetic gesture put into motion (...)
Creativity method.
Truth“is not realism or verisimilitude. The”truth“is a perception of the spectator, which can be very powerful: it is the sign of an anchoring of the film in oneself, of the meaning that a work takes in our life, of the deep enrichment that it (...)
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).