Birth

Poem in automatic writing about « Birth »

Well, I, on the contrary, try to empty it to give it meaning. I need a lot of emptiness to be able to create. Ode to childbirth by a young adult. Coin (3’02s). For example, putting on makeup and getting dressed in the morning, in a different way depending on the circumstances to come (daily life, work, love, events...), is to create an image to enter into a relationship. Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh. The work of mourning, like the work of birth, is a work of unconditional love. If we each dig a little deeper into our origins, our construction, our experience of the place, what can we understand about ourselves?

I need a lot of emptiness to be able to create.

For example, this weekend I decided to stay home, not to go to P.’s birthday party, to empty my mind. People usually try to fill their lives to give them meaning. Well, I, on the contrary, try to empty it to give it meaning. That’s how things (...)

3 September 2017

1 min

Rebirth

5 August 2021

Waves are water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).

Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh.

7 March 2023

Summer

7 June 2022

I realize, when I see things much later, how valuable even the films I made in a short time are, because they are marked by the context that gave them birth. And I can elicit that context more often.

27 January 2020

1 min

Remembering Alice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’40s, 2017). With Marion Geerebaert.

A mother returns in the footsteps of her missing daughter. The work of mourning, like the work of birth, is a work of unconditional love.

14 May 2017

Perpetual motion

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 1998).

Ode to childbirth by a young adult.

31 December 1998

The being and the image

Short proposal for an operativity of the philosophy of the image.

The images we look at, share, imagine and create have an important impact on our being in the world. Why do they do so? And how can we make good use of images to “be better”? Philosophical hypotheses and practical questions.Too much (...)

27 June 2022

6 min

Fragile

27 September 2021

The fear

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’28s, 2016).

Sensitive sharing of therapeutic indications to fight against fear, this kind of fear present inside of each.

5 December 2016

I don’t understand anything about my life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2019).

If we each dig a little deeper into our origins, our construction, our experience of the place, what can we understand about ourselves?

5 November 2019

Exit From The Ground (2021)

Musical album

Underlying dialogues in the face of the sea spray.Notes and sounds thrown like seeds, which matured during four to five years, to gradually gather, find each other and propose to germinate, to come out of the ground.Download the album (...)

10 May 2021

1 min

Bodies thrown in front of empty space

Series of 100 photographs in a hallway.

The empty space, the stage, the fallow field, on which humanity grows. Often, one passes by without stopping.

6 February 2023

1 min

Birthday

28 May 2022

Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a philosopher, engineer and mathematician of genius. Among other major scientific and philosophical advances, he invented and built the first mechanical calculating machine in 1645, thus laying the concrete (...)

Calligrams

Collection of 365 graphic poems, created daily between July 4, 2021 and July 5, 2022.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. (...)