Speed

C’est déjà passé

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, 2022).

Sometimes everything went too fast.

Blitzkrieg

Suddenly

Leakage of branches

Series of 50 automatic photographs.

Photographic, digital and railway mechanics produce images that fix natural phenomena as much as their own coordinated natures. Machines as new natures that transform our gaze.

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Article by Nicolas Villodre in “Jeune cinéma” (April 2021).

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Wind

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’18s, 2017).

Diving inside the organic movement of the wind maybe.

Moderately slow

Fast car

Just because I do something quickly doesn’t mean it’s worthless.

On the contrary. Cf. Picasso. Cf. calligraphy. So don’t be ashamed at all to have made an album in half an hour on the train.

The fact that one goes quickly to create something, and that afterwards it remains... the fact that all the elaboration around, before and after, was much longer than the moment of creation itself... it is completely normal.

The fact that I work quickly, that things are placed very quickly in space and time, is not a sign that something is wrong in terms of the “quality” of my work. It’s that I’m bringing together a lot of things, deep things, that have been there for a long time.

If things come, in a natural way, if creation “flows” from me, with speed, I must not hold it back, I must let it flow, I must trust, I must not judge anything, I must simply feel the rightness of it all, and I must welcome, with joy, this gift that is given to me.

And if it doesn’t come anymore, I don’t force anything. I let it rest. But when it comes, I must not block anything.