Italy

Poem in automatic writing about « Italy »

What we know we’ll take with us on the day we die is probably what can feed our life energy. A traumatic event disrupts the past, the present and the notion of reality. Discovering in the materiality of the world that a work of art is not what it seems. Dario Apostoli, Italian photographer and filmmaker, organizes, in a small Italian village, Pavullo Nel Frignano, a sort of “cave”, an installation with projections of films by : Dario Apostoli Paolo Asaro Colette Baraldi Daniela Bazzani François Buffet Roberta De Piccoli Annamaria Federici Hase Kaihei Benoît Labourdette Pascal Laurent Raphaël Maze Thibault Peckre Fabrizio Saiu Max Schleser My film Dead leaf has been proposed as an installation as part of this event. I’ve also set up a server to receive all films. How a love disappointment leads to even more love. The festival has asked me a projection path in the city that I designed, projecting film clips, that designed, chronologically and themed places compared to projections, a “brief history” of Italian cinema.

AXA / AGD Corporate Meeting 2012 : Organisation of production, post-production and distribution

AXA for its international distant insurance AGD (France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Japan, Korea) , needed to create momentum under its “Corporate meeting” in 2012 (international meeting of teams), a dynamic movie to start (...)

10 June 2012

2 min

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

2014 Screenwriters Festival

A history of Italian cinema, in a route of traveling screenings in the city of Valencia, in the 2014 screenwriters Festival.The theme of Screenwriters Festival in 2014 was the Italian cinema. The festival has asked me a projection path in (...)

5 April 2014

1 min

A heritage of life

A film by Françoise Simpère et Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2020).

What we know we’ll take with us on the day we die is probably what can feed our life energy.

18 August 2020

Back from Florence

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’00s, 2019).

How a love disappointment leads to even more love.

13 October 2019

“Impermanenza delle cose” Multimedia Exhibition (Pavullo Nel Frignano, Italy)

Screening of « Dead leaf », a film by Benoît Labourdette (8’33, 2012).Dario Apostoli, Italian photographer and filmmaker, organizes, in a small Italian village, Pavullo Nel Frignano, a sort of “cave”, an installation with projections of (...)

23 September 2012

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.

30 October 2018

A conversation with Benoît Labourdette

Interview with Benoît Labourdette by Roger Odin for Bianco e nero magazine (2010).

The film theorist Roger Odin (1939-2023) saw in the arrival of video in cell phones “for the first time in the history of cinema, the establishment of cinematic language as ordinary language”. He interviewed me about this in 2010.As early as (...)