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Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).

Superimposition

Superimposition, or “multi-exposure” consisted, at the time of photographic film, of putting the same film several times in a row back into the (…)

Us

(photo : DR)

Infra

Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio (1932-2018) is an urban planner and philosopher of technological acceleration, of the acceleration of time operated by machines, (…)

Medicine

Medicine is a body of knowledge, techniques and practices that aim to maintain health, prevent, diagnose and treat disease and injury. It is (…)

Pikachu

Drawing by Hassan, 7, from Les Lilas (Seine Saint-Denis).

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Tree

The tree, a perennial plant, is much more mobile than we think. It is very strong to approach a tree. This life form runs through a number of my (…)

Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898, 1972) was a genius engraver, who drew mathematical paradoxes, impossible constructions such as the Möbius ribbon or (…)

Polyamory

Polyamory, polyfidelity, free love, plural loves, open relationships... These terms refer to free and sincere love relationships. The project is (…)

Diffusion

Photograph by Jeanne Paravert.

Myriam Drosne

Myriam Drosne is an art therapist, photographer, visual artist and costume designer. She works on memory and on the permeability between places (…)

Abstraction

Abstraction is a philosophical, artistic, computer and psychological concept. In psychology, it is the ability to mentally construct conceptual (…)

Health

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. It is not limited to the absence of disease or injury, but also includes the (…)

Hippolyte Labourdette

Hippolyte Labourdette (1999-2022) was my child. His life was so short and so rich. It is unthinkable, illogical even, that he should be no more, (…)

ChatGPT

I’m ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI. I function as a virtual assistant, able to answer questions, provide explanations, (…)

Hare

(image generated by artificial intelligence Ideogram)

Earth

Short film

“Short film” is a French legal term that refers to a film of less than 60 minutes (“short” corresponding to the length of the film, less than 1600 (…)

Transhumanism

The “transhumanism” consists in the will to “increase” the human by the machine. This may seem incongruous at first, but transhumanists develop a (…)

The singularity

The “Technological Singularity”, commonly called “The Singularity”, is the hypothesis of a future tipping point, located between 2030 and 2040, (…)

Digital

What is “digital”? Etymologically (17th Century), it is what has to do with numbers and their calculation. But since the advent of computers in (…)

Maëlla Mickaëlle

Maëlla Mickaëlle is a multidisciplinary artist working between dance and image. A filmmaker, multimedia author, video artist, dancer and musician, (…)

Zebra

The zebra... it seems to be just an animal, but it’s actually a theme. Do you know the particularity of people called zebras? Here are some films, (…)

Roger Odin

Roger Odin (1939-2023) was a leading film theorist and semiologist, who contributed to a rigorous scientific understanding of cinematic forms. He (…)

LED

Light-Emitting Diode.

Fire

Fire, an energy that can be both constructive and destructive.

Church

Church: this is both the place of assembly, generally devoted to religious worship, and the human assembly itself, and by extension in (…)

Social action

Creativity is in my opinion a powerful factor of personal and social construction. Thus social action through audiovisual creative projects seems (…)

HTML

HTML is the initials of HyperText Markup Language, the computer language that allows the display of web pages (like this one). Its deployment (…)

Classical music

The term “classical music”, emblematic of a symbolic hierarchy in musical genres, has, paradoxically, no very precise definition. It is Western (…)

Olivier Houdé

Olivier Houdé is a French psychologist and researcher specializing in cognitive development. He has studied in detail the mechanisms of cognitive (…)

Super 8

“Super 8” is a film format, launched by Kodak in 1965. It was the main format of amateur cinema, since its launch, until the democratization of (…)

Michel Serres

(photo : DR)

Light

“Light” is a word of great richness, with a multiple and unsuspected history, very diverse depending on the culture. It is as much symbolic and (…)

Telephone number

(photo : DR)

Romain Baujard

Romain Baujard is a filmmaker, photographer, musician and cartoonist. The look, the meeting, love, family, identity... are the symbols that we (…)

Cultural Rights

The “cultural rights”, which derive from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are a concept developed and defended by researchers, (…)

Marie Ann Trân

Marie-Ann Trân is a singer-songwriter and stage director. She creates multidisciplinary artistic projects with her company Paris Concert. We (…)

Oblivion

Memory failure, involving either acquired knowledge or skills or memories; forgetfulness.

Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville

Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville is an architect and landscape designer, following in the footsteps of Paul Virilio. He takes as concrete data the (…)

Lockdown

What has been termed “lockdown” is the situation in February-March-April-May 2020 when a very large proportion of human beings on earth were (…)

Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon (1916-2001) is an American scientist, who worked, among others with Alan Turing, to design the foundations of computer science. He (…)

Panorama

The “Panorama” was one of the great attractions of the 19th century: in large circular halls (the Rond Point theater in Paris, for example, was a (…)

Sledge

Image generated by Dall-E on January 16, 2023.

ROSEBUD 2022, the end of cinema

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), mainly known as a pious philosopher and theologian, was also a mathematician and physicist. In 1645, he invented the (…)

Innovation

“Innovation” is a singularly overused word, which is often used to justify change for change’s sake, the new without thinking. Innovation is often (…)

John Dewey

John Dewey (1859-1952), an American pragmatist philosopher, who placed experience as a central axis in the construction of thought and democracy, (…)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century, working in depth on the lyricism of life. An Austrian, he (…)

Pocket Films

“Pocket Films” was originally the name of a festival, the Pocket Films Festival, born in 2005, when cameras appeared in mobile phones. I conceived (…)

Construction site

(the photograph displayed and the installation are by Myriam Drosne)

Feminism

Here is my definition of feminism, from my place as a man: it is for me a movement of thought and action for equal rights between women and men, (…)

Karine Saporta

Photographie : Karine Saporta.

Colour

Colour is a matter of psychology, physiology, neurobiology, chemistry, physics, art, philosophy... This notion operates at the heart of some of my (…)

Work

Do you know the true etymology of the word “work” (“travail” in french)?It is not tripallium (torture) as it is believed. In reality it is (…)

Autobiography

Autobiography is a very old literary genre, even though it was named as such in the 18th century. It is about sharing a narrative of oneself, of (…)

Democracy

What is democracy all about? What guarantees freedom, equality and fraternity? Institutions, laws and voting are only part of it. In my opinion, (…)

Richard Texier

Richard Texier is a painter, sculptor, writer and filmmaker. His works and his vision are part of an open and free animist philosophy. He produces (…)

Projection

The word “projection” literally means the action of “throwing forward”. By extension, since the XIVth Century, it means the action of throwing out (…)

emmanuel vergès

emmanuel vergès (voluntarily without capital letters) is a cultural engineer and above all an explorer of “cultural democracy in a digital (…)

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is considered as the first programmer in the history of computer science, even before the existence of this discipline. (…)

Accident

The accident is both the loss, the damage, but also the potential for a change of direction, an enrichment, despite what is no longer there. Once (…)

Lamp

(photograph : Bénédicte Loyen)

Experimental cinema

The Cinematograph (recording of animated photographic images then large projection, using the same camera) was invented in 1895 by the Lumière (…)

Compersion

The word “compersion” was invented in the early 1970s in the Kerista community in San Francisco. It’s the opposite of jealousy. Derived from (…)

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is the founder of a psychoanalysis rooted in language. His influence was considerable. His approach to psychology is (…)

Window

A window is an opening. This opening is mainly considered in the architectural sense, but it is also psychological, symbolic, historical, (…)

Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) is considered the father of “optical art”. These are abstract creations, based on the illusion of depth and movement, (…)

Nuclear

Poem in automatic writing about « Nuclear »

The three ecologies of co-resilience

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