What is a town

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2019).

A place visited today, empty, where I lived so many things a long time ago.

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 (...)

ROSEBUD 2022, the end of cinema

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’45s, 2022).

To grieve is to carry more weight. It is to live with the absence. It is to become more lucid. It means having to be stronger. It is to be more joyful of everything.

At the time

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’31s, 2020).

The most beautiful memories can be without nostalgia, because life goes on.

You’re beautiful

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (4’30s, 2000).

From a loop of an ambiance sound of an amateur video, building a digital abstract object, that the soundtrack anthropomorphise.

Vire, next stop

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 seated man

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’37s, 2022).

The work of mourning, such a slow movement of life.

Glance race

A race of glances in all directions.Instrumental music, 2017,4’14s. Improvisation of Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).

Fire

Series of 100 event photographs.

The street crackles with the fire that consumes it. It is a powerful breath. And little by little the night is made. The cold comes after the blaze. All is nothing but memory.

Memory

Remember an old organ in this dusty church. Teenager, with in the headphones of the walkman some 1970s rock.Instrumental Music, 2017, 2’19s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers).Improvisation realized under private seing on (...)

Fragile and forgotten silhouettes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’15s, 2023).

Single or multiple, these living figures, these moments of intense life, do we remember them? As in a painting by Bruegel the Elder.

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 (...)

Melting friends

Collective film (4’32s, 2020)

When images and objects close to the body lead to shared collective memories of important moments.

Triton

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2007, 1h04’).

SynopsisOne man and one anonymous anonymous evokes the difficulty of living in broad daylight in the shadow of the most fatal hour of contemporary history. The shadowy memory of the Holocaust which obscures the daily seeks desperately (...)

Knife in the stomach

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2000).

If there was a personal theme in this film, it should be filling a form, the body. The paradigm shift made by digital on this question of fullness : everything is overflow.

Le grenier

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’59s, 2016).

The attic of an old house, which conceals an unexpected teaching.

Slight burns

Series of 19 burned paper sheets.

The paper is touched by the fire, it cannot escape it.

Remember

Cubes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’48s, 2013).

This old house and this rain remain me a memory from when I was a child, in a classroom...

What if I were outside?

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (6’, 2021).

The memories of each person combined create a collective sensitive space, of which the library is rich.

The garden of my childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: The child).

Leafing through the old photographs of the collective unconscious is to return to oneself.

Pale

Happy memories, slowed down by the late hour.Instrumental music, 2017, 2’21s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (piano).Improvisation carried out in private, September 6, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette production).

Oh night

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’29s, 2022).

A postcard seems to come to life, and write its own legend.

Sands Hotel

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’28s, 2016).

Remember the presence of the lost loved one in a hotel room surrounded by sand.

Myopia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’33s, 2021).

Myopia can be triggered by trauma. We are left with poetry.

Remember here by the window

A collective film, initiated and edited by Benoît Labourdette (1h01’, 2009-2020).

Look out your window at home, and think of an important memory.This collective film is composed of 44 videos (among 500 made) shot by people in France, Algeria and Tunisia, between 2009 and 2013, in creative workshops led by Benoît (...)

A heritage of life

A film by Françoise Simpère et Benoît Labourdette (2’13s, 2020).

What we know we’ll take with us on the day we die is probably what can feed our life energy.

FrEE zonE

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2017).

The remembrance of a drama, and an unexpected confession.