It’s not necessarily what took the longest to make that has the most artistic value.

Often I realize, with what I have people do, that they don’t realize themselves the value of what they have done. And yet it has great value, but it’s beyond them. Well for me it’s the same, there are things that I do, that require little (...)

Out of time

In process

Déjà-vu

As time passes, I see more and more the value of the things I have done in the past.

Nature

A flim by Benoît Labourdette (3’08s, 2021).

Getting back in touch with nature is not that simple.

Close

I realize, when I see things much later, how valuable even the films I made in a short time are, because they are marked by the context that gave them birth. And I can elicit that context more often.

Love this time that creation takes. It is an essential time, for life.

The music I made more than ten years ago, that I’m going to unveil today, it’s not “passé” at all.

It has its full and complete value. And then it is linked, it carries, my psychological state of the time, which made me want to hear that at that time. It still has value today, it will still have value tomorrow. So, I can, without any (...)

Smallest lie

A creative workshop session in a high school class in the Paris suburbs. I bring a lot of material. I transform the space so that the class becomes an animation studio: camera, lighting, video projector, graphic material, felt pens, scissors, (...)

Breaks

I “lost time”, it’s true, because I was under the influence for a long, long time. But what counts is what I do today. And if today I feel like creating all the time, well, let me not limit myself anymore, never again!

My creation is modest, for a small public, but it exists, I take care of it, I emphasize it, in the course of time, in its simplicity, in its freedom.

I don’t expect anything from anyone, I act, in all simplicity. For a confidential audience, yes, but a real, existing audience, people, my “friends”, if you will.

Brushes

Series of 24 photographs with brushes.

To brush, in a gesture, in a second, the inclination of my life.Brush by the sensitive surface in movements.To compose with several together.To find oneself far from me.There, it is sometimes blurred.I recognize myself.

Waves are water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).

Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh.

Imagine Absence

Orion

Inside time

Film by Benoît Labourdette (3’34 s, 2016).

Reading of the last paragraphs of “’Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust. Links between literature, painting and movement.

Bring in the objects

Collective film (4’37s, 2019).

Intimate testimonials of objects that feel lonely or abandoned.

To create my films, I set up the conditions, and I let them come.

Sometimes it can take years, sometimes minutes.

Waiting

At your jeweler’s

Series of 15 cropped photographs.

Pricing principle. Metro plan. Illegal travelers. Nazi. Laminated. Shine

When the storm subsides

It is very important, and very legitimate, on my part, to create. And to devote time to it.

Give value back to my personal creation time.

Nightly

Clocks

The fact of being limited by time and then to make a lot of different encounters, to go to a lot of places, that’s what arouses my creation, a lot.

Writing time.

I have to set aside some real time to write, or at least give myself the possibility to take it, because it takes time, anyway, and it’s very important.

It’s amazing how things done in the moment take on their value, their full dimension, long after.

At the time we don’t realize it. I’m going to invest that: to realize, in the present, what’s at stake.

Eclipse

“This activity of the artist, the model-of-time of man that ultimately, inexorably but gently, animates us all.”

Quote from Stan Brakhage (1933-2003).

Radioactivity

I exist

Collective film (4’42s, 2016).

Exist? In time, in space, in poetry... in the image?

Presence and time

Practical hypothesis of power over time.

We each have extremely varied experiences of time, depending on our general modality of presence in time, and our specific intentionalities at certain moments. For example, the time of rehearsal for a show, which can be very long, is not (...)

Lost in time

Time

Ellipse

Apocalypse

Alarm clock

Series of 313 photographs to represent 36 minutes of time.

An attempt to visually symbolize the mental effect of an alarm clock that rings, and rings again, and rings again in the morning... With an evolution of the effect on the brain waves, as time passes.

ARTE - Training manufacture of a multimedia work

The Franco-German channel ARTE is, like all TV channels, changing the very nature of its activities. ARTE pioneered early on the web (with ARTE Live Web ARTE creative, etc.). These new programs, these new kinds of relationship to the public, (...)