Sculpture

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’40s, 2021).

Film comes, in the history of mankind, as a much more religious fact than one might have thought at first glance.. André Bazin, in his article “Ontology of the photographic image” (1945), evokes in a very clear way the function of the original (...)

3 February 2021

Prides

Film by Benoît Labourdette (2’46s, 2014).

Erect statues ... Why? How? Where to look?

17 July 2014

Laongo

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’39s, 2015).

Sculptures made by artists from all countries, in relation to each other in sunny nature of Burkina Faso (Laongo park). Documentary.

22 March 2015

I’m tired

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’28s, 2020).

There’s a difference in essence between fatigue and sleep.

21 January 2020

Art Press: article “Richard Texier, digital filmmaker”

Publication of an article in the special addon of ArtPress “Richard Texier, PANTHEO vortex” (June-July 2014). Download complete article (bilingual english-french) ArtPress devoted a special addon to Richard Texier, French painter and sculptor, (...)

28 June 2014

2 min

Hand studies 8

Film by Benoît Labourdette (1’31s, 2010).

A tree in the middle of a street. It’s simple and banal. But if we explore its surface, its bark, we discover stories. All the stories that took place around, including the tree retains traces, etched on him, like so many tattoos. Love, venue, (...)

4 August 2010

Prosopopoeia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2016). Produced by Arcadi Île-de-France.

Documentary on the exhibition “Prosopopoeia, when objects come to life.” The look of a machine, the drone, on objects endowed with autonomy.

3 February 2016

In object life?

Collective film (2’54s, 2019).

When objects from a carving workshop wake up...

13 April 2019

Wings

A short documentary by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2011).

Fate of the world leads me to cross a sculpture by Richard Texier in the port of La Rochelle, in July 2011. A correspondence, written and filmed, follows.

29 October 2011

To Jean Dubuffet

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’19s, 2018).

“I am absolutely convinced that anyone, without any special knowledge or skills, without having to look at I don’t know what so-called native dispositions, can devote themselves to art with every chance of success.” Jean (...)

15 December 2018