My workshop, it is in movement, it is my working space, it should not be frozen.

It is extremely important. I photograph all the works there, I keep track of what happened there, but I don’t leave things there, I leave that space empty, fallow, free. I don’t have anything to prove, nor to show to someone who would pass by. (...)

The small train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’,2022).

Movement of discovery of one’s own life story in front of the landscape that scrolls by the window.

Movement (thought 129)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 2020).

At night, truths are sometimes revealed to us so lucid that they don’t survive the return of light.

Body Awareness

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2020).

Introduction to the intrinsic link between consciousness and health of the body, through the words of Moshe Feldenkrais..

The takeoff

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’51s, muet, 2022).

Dancing yourself and perhaps accompanying and enriching yourself by dancing together.

Cry

Cinema is not the art of the image.

It is the art of time, of movement, of emotion, of rhythm, of life, of everything we want, of the image among others. It is to reduce it terribly to say that it is the art of the image.

Brushes

Series of 24 photographs with brushes.

To brush, in a gesture, in a second, the inclination of my life.Brush by the sensitive surface in movements.To compose with several together.To find oneself far from me.There, it is sometimes blurred.I recognize myself.

Flood

Rachid’s

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2014).

The small trace left on a surface, on a “skin”, is perhaps the most important thing there is.

Moving

Leakage of branches

Series of 50 automatic photographs.

Photographic, digital and railway mechanics produce images that fix natural phenomena as much as their own coordinated natures. Machines as new natures that transform our gaze.

Travelers

Alarm clock

Series of 313 photographs to represent 36 minutes of time.

An attempt to visually symbolize the mental effect of an alarm clock that rings, and rings again, and rings again in the morning... With an evolution of the effect on the brain waves, as time passes.

Laddered

Series of 45 laddered photographs.

If each image flows before our eyes, then the world becomes like a fluid.

Nature

A flim by Benoît Labourdette (3’08s, 2021).

Getting back in touch with nature is not that simple.

Thinking about moving kaleidoscope image

The criteria of compositionWhen we do the framing of an image with a camera, we often use the classical criteria of image composition, inherited from the tradition of figurative painting. Which is quite natural. Things as we see them in the (...)

In orbit

Sinusoid

The call

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’50s, 2013).

What is architecture, what is a place, how do you envisage ?

It turns

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

Primitive motion pictures.

Marseille Soap

Green sky

Series of 35 photographs of the air.

The invisible matter is rough and colored.

Adagio

Get out of my head

Stretched building

Series of 25 fluid photographs.

With half-closed eyes and a vertical movement of the head, an ordinary building is transformed into a playground for the imagination.

Chromosome words

Series of 70 inked photographs.

Words that are life. Describe. Are. Self. Words that end up being planted like seeds. The ink that spins and flows, and the gaze that dares not. Words that slip. Gush out. Unreadable as life. They are much more than themselves.

Balance and supports

A method for the sustainability of projects.

Based on the way the human body balances itself, for a sustainable approach to project management.Observation of nature is often very good advice for engineering projects (architecture, aviation, textiles, IT, neural networks for (...)

Using inspiration engines is very important. Do not hesitate to do so.

Inventing reality

You have to go far.

You have to put yourself in danger in the creation of art. This does not mean being obscene or making a fool of yourself. But to go deeper, to dig. It is essential. We don’t do this to be nice, but to make things happen.

Clouds

Video loop by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The clouds move slowly, if you look at the sky for a brief moment, but seem to go very quickly if you take the time to look. The relativity of perceived time...And if we superimpose the pictures of themselves over time ? Or rather, if we (...)

Dancing tube

Series of 100 photographs of a city’s lights in motion.

Madam, may I have this dance?

Wind

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’18s, 2017).

Diving inside the organic movement of the wind maybe.

The greatest secret

Flowers from the grave, video/organic installation, Garden Festival of Chaumont sur ​​Loire

Video-vegetal installation.Into the International Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur Loire, the landscape architect Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville has created a vegetable sculpture, in a basement, as a large liana levitating in the dark. I worked (...)

Orc (2013)

Music album

Set of 18 songs composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette. Nine of them are sung, the rest are instrumental. Music and sound material is constructed from samples of organs and sounds of the world. The lyrics are written without the help of (...)

Chapter 4 : Interlaced video

You may already have seen these very ugly horizontal lines on video images, very visible in the movements. Therefore we see from time to time ? Where did they come from ? How to get rid ?We must once again, back to the story to understand (...)

Human movement

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

Primitive motion pictures.

Creation is like life, it’s going on an adventure without knowing where you’re going to end up. It is above all the movement of going, of doing while doing.