Back from Florence

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

How a love disappointment leads to even more love.

France Doc : “Documentary experiences : childhood”

As part of the session “Documentary experiences : childhood” organized by FranceDoc, April 24, 2015 at 19:30 at EnCours in Paris, screening of the film :Vire, next stop (Benoît Labourdette 3’48, 2013). Full program of the session (...)

I want to tell you something

Collective film (3’38s, 2016).

What if the books spoke?

Closed trash

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’16, 1997).

Passing a closed trash can, a Japanese tourist remembers the words of his father, who told him the bomb, and the feeling of being alive while others died.

Behind the scenes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’41s, 2005).

Preparations for a cinematic event.

The idea factory: “We tested a 360° camera shooting”

Article on thethe blog of the Canope Media Library about a virtual reality filmmaking workshop led by Benoît Labourdette.We tested a 360° camera shooting - The idea factory We tested a 360-degree camera shootingNUMOK, the digital (...)

Video platform “Connection” for MPAA

Design, construction and animation of a collaborative video platform.

To animate the living story of a cultural project of territory, in the present and for the future, via a dedicated collaborative video platform: https://connexion.mpaa.fr/.The Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateur (MPAA) in Paris proposes (...)

Memory of a poster

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

Sometimes, in the Paris metro, thanks to work, the walls are stripped of their posters for a facelift. So, during the time of repair, there are still traces, such as scratches that make the ancient pieces of posters. No more commercials, but (...)

City lights

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’00s, 2023).

Our two eyes see left-right with a gap, before-after with memory, front-back with their mobility; they create relief and depth.

Unaware actors

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1h03’, 2008).

A 30-day diary, 30 shots-sequence. Meetings, people, animals and places, from bottom to top. The search for what is hidden behind the appearances of the trivial. Chance and necessity.

Cultural summer 2023 with Cultures du coeur: “The machine that travels into the future”

Account of the first workshop of a tour of digital creation workshops in the social field.

During the summer of 2023, Cultures du cœur is proposing to eight social structures in France that their beneficiaries participate in the creation of collective and individual stories on the theme of the future. Graphic, video, musical, digital (...)

You are here

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’33s, 2011).

The blind run in the streets.

Pont Neuf

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The Pont Neuf, in addition to its architectural history (the oldest bridge in Paris), has an artistic history : its packaging by Christo in 1985, the film “The Lovers on the Pont Neuf” by Leos Carax in 1991, etc.. But one of its reality is that (...)

The lonely child

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2020).

A chance for introspection, class privilege.

Alchemical video mapping performance

Saturday, June 3, 2023. As part of Nuit Blanche 2023. By Isabel Bertelot, Benoît Labourdette and “Les Manoirs”.

When in the night, alive with reminiscences of the female silent cinema, lights are born in the pictorial darkness, and letters and moving words emerge, composed as sensitive and musical bodies, it is an alchemy that immerses the (...)

Coco

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’15s, 2020).

A coconut shares her image problems: will she succeed in gaining confidence in her qualities?

On the 13^th

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’50s, 2020).

Friday, November 13, 2015, Friday, March 13, 2020

École Normale Supérieure - Filming the words

Itinerant projection of short films in the buildings of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).In the context of the dynamics of participatory creation “Filming the words”, that I have set up in 2011 with the Délégation générale à la langue (...)

Vanishing line

Series of 38 still photos.

One morning like any other, on the Austerlitz bridge in Paris, everyone leaves, or runs away, towards his place of activity. What happens in the space of a second.

Little man

Series of 55 photographs of the projection of a missing person.

I’ve seen you for a long time, and now I understand your particular gait, flattened on the ground, for ever immobile. I try to replay the film but I can’t, there is only one step left in your movement.

Itinéraire bis, the path of cultural rights

Action research conducted by the MPAA (Paris).

Accompaniment in the animation, production of traces and fabrication of the web platform resources of the research-action “Itinéraire bis, chemin des droits culturels” led by the MPAA between 2021 and 2023, and piloted by its director Sonia (...)

Love in the confined present tense

A film by Benoît Labourdette, with the collaboration of Marie Désert, François Cany and Jean-Baptiste Hanak (1’00s, 2020).

Palimpsest of confined lives, of pictorial references, of nascent love, of graphic and audiovisual performance, between Paris and Nantes in 2020.

Parisian sidewalk

Series of photographs. Variation on the experience of a Parisian sidewalk.Shoot with the body, the hand that triggers the camera being an integral part of the optical system. Its presence before / with the objective diffracts the light rays (...)

Blue eyes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’47s, 2016).

Facing our child, real or imagined.

Café 61, session of short films by Jean-Michel Frodon

As part of the regular sessions of short films organized by Jean-Michel Frodon in Café 61 in Paris, screening as part of the meeting of Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 17h of the movie: « Around » (3’37s, 2013).Café 61. 3 Rue de l’Oise, 75019 (...)

Spring

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’37s, 2015).

Living the rustle of the world, between vegetal force, air power, and organization, speech and human culture, beyond the borders of all kinds.

Paul the tree

Series of 25 photographs of a natural being.

I met Paul in 2021. We danced together.Paul is a tree born here, in a wood next to a big city. He was planted by human beings. He likes to talk, in his tree language, with his friends who live next to him. Often he is happy. Sometimes he is (...)

Sleeping in Paris

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’41s, 2023).

Finding meaning in life, despite its most terrible tragedies

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 5

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’59s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this wall is a lawn...

I parked my scooter

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2003).

“I parked my scooter, I lost my scooter. If someone found it, he can bring it to me.” Small musical and visual variation humorous.

Tire

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2000, 1h03 ’).

SynopsisOn digital images digitally reworked where fugitive anonymous silhouettes goes on, a poetic monologue book a disenchanted vision of ghostly ballet of modern life. (Forum des Images)

About the 21^st Century: Meeting with Paul Virilio

A film by Martine Stora and Benoît Labourdette (26 minutes, 1995).

Paul Virilio, a great philosopher of technology in the 20th Century, in 1994, gave us a vision of the 21st Century that seems to us very enlightening to give meaning to our present, 26 years later.This film, Grand Prix (Silver Wolf) of the (...)

Numok Festival: “Let’s create 360°” workshop (libraries of the City of Paris)

Workshops for the production of films in Virtual Reality in three libraries of the City of Paris: Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de Ville, Bibliothèque Arthur Rimbaud.As part o fNumok, the digital (...)

Paris Yellow Pages

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2019).

Paris as seen by its paper directory in 2019.

The wire

Film by Benoît Labourdette (8’34s, 2016).

Documentary on the painting exhibition “The wire” by Benoît Labourdette, Paris, October 2016.

Eiffel Tower

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

The Eiffel Tower, visible monument if any, if it visually subtracted from itself becomes invisible, except if the viewer is small head movements, which show her figure fleetingly.

No entry

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2013).

Body, space and timeA body in the city at night. The body of the eye. The look of the body. The experience of coming and going, which is the breath of a city. Is the time in the city, is a chronological space in the perception that one has ? (...)

Forum des images (Paris, France)

Screening of the feature film “Fatigue” by Benoît Labourdette (1:03, 2000).The Forum des Images proposed in March 2013, in the series “Cinema City”, a beautiful theme “Experimental Paris”, with films of Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, (...)

I.M.L. (Institute of Legal Medicine)

Series of 66 photographs from behind the tree in front.

Your temporary room was there for a fortnight before we moved you to your final resting place.

MPAA: Films for the 10^th anniversary of the House of Amateur Artistic Practices

Five films to affirm the identity of a Parisian cultural institution, MPAA (House of Amateur Artistic Practices). House of Amateur Artistic Practices (MPAA)Places for musical, theatrical and artistic rehearsals in the broad sense of the (...)

MOOC Digital Media Paris : “Image and Mobility”

The MOOC of the city of Paris on digital media, with Benoît Labourdette.The City of Paris launched “MOOC Digital Media Paris”, of which I am one of the first responders, with Dominique Cardon and ORLAN.This MOOC is built by EPSAA (Higher (...)