Memory failure, involving either acquired knowledge or skills or memories; forgetfulness.
A movie by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2014).
Life on a blank screen...
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 2019).
Where the activity of writing takes us unwittingly into unfathomable depths.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’22s, 2018).
The mysteries and paradoxes of justice, like so many traces of electric movements forgotten in the past.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’14s, 2017).
At night, when anxiety is there, if one dares to look beyond the ashes of life, one can see an image of salvation.
Series of 42 photographs downward.
Soil, cement, water, a few trees, traces of tires and old works, cigarette butts, reflections, rising sun, shadows of what overhangs the support of the forgotten past, flatness of evanescent life.How the real is revealed by its shadow and (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette, 4 minutes, 2009, digital, Scope 2.35, Color, stereo.
We meet a homeless in the street and we forget, one minute later.
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.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’33s, 2021).
Myopia can be triggered by trauma. We are left with poetry.
Collective film (7’30s, 2019).
Digital things whisper their existence in our ears.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’48s, 2013).
One day a train. Chopped audiovisual form, from which emerge childhood memories, confrontation with the self-forgetfulness.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’37s, 2022).
The work of mourning, such a slow movement of life.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’02s, 2012).
A touch film, made of paper and words.
Series of 55 engraved photographs.
What remains is the negative, the opposite, the trace in oneself of the presence of the other, now absent.It’s disturbing to me that the word “gravé” translates as “engraved” in English, which contains “grave”, i.e. the grave. And Hippolyte, (...)
Series of 30 photographs illuminated by words.
On my proposal, people have written words opposite images chosen from the thousands that I propose on my website, those that “jumped out at them” and gave birth to words, which illuminate them and dig them, or sculpt them, in return. (...)
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).