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Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 13

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’55s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that these air launchers are flame throwers...

9 December 2009

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.

15 November 2021

1 min

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2016).

Numbers structure music ; thus, well focused, one can hear the singular song of no. 46 of this street...

2 July 2016

Sidewalk

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

A simple Parisian sidewalk. We go, we go, in daily life. But are we sure we’ve been there at that time ? Do we remember our presence to the world and to others, in the everyday moments... that become extraordinary if we take a look on them. (...)

18 June 2013

Each in turn

Collective film (1’55s, 2013).

Prepare all of us together for the adventure.

2 April 2013

Taxis

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’16s, 2014).

Lights at night.

18 May 2014

September 4

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’27s, 2014).

Materials and scales.

23 February 2014

Already the architecture

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2018).

Contemplative quest for meaning in an abandoned summer camp.

30 December 2018

Foie gras

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’36s, 2019).

An inaccessible child’s dream, in a lost house in the woods.

6 November 2019

Harley

On the road, we go on, calmly but very quickly. And this happens, inescapably. Instrumental Music, 2017, 1’02s. Improvisation by Benoît Labourdette (synthesizers). Improvisation carried out under private seal, May 28, 2017 (Benoît Labourdette (...)

28 May 2017

Remembering Alice

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’40s, 2017). With Marion Geerebaert.

A mother returns in the footsteps of her missing daughter. The work of mourning, like the work of birth, is a work of unconditional love.

14 May 2017

Night road

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’44s, 2013).

“Small child at the bottom of the back seat of the car, travel and night lights are not very real. With the help of tire, three minutes of travel on the street appear three long hours of contemplative abstract (...)

4 June 2013

Victory for ultra-powerful alternating electric power

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’41s, 2019, muet).

The power, impressive, seductive, is no less dangerous.

15 November 2019

Rebuilding

A movie by Benoît Labourdette (3’24s, 2014).

Royaumont abbey : get there and rebuild it...

30 August 2014

Small parking

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

This small park is located next door to me. For years, every time I go there, I am concerned about this bit of wall damaged, with the apparent behind the plaster bricks that fell long ago. As an opening to a view of the inside of a body. As a (...)

6 July 2013

Hand studies 6

Film Benoît Labourdette (1’36 s, 2010).

Everyone runs, goes about his occupations, his work, his sport, his body, his loves, his delay, its all his time, some on foot, others by car, bicycle, light clothing, or city. And if, at the top of all this turmoil, a great hand had all this, (...)

31 July 2010

My home window

A film by Marie (2’14s, 2009).

Keep a record of what you see from home and not what is in your home. Even if what we see from home seems banal to us, the important thing is to share our gaze.

22 December 2009

Crossroads

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’00s, 2015).

Is the world began, or is it an imaginary space, built from a logical matrix ? Questions and answers at a simple crossroads.

20 June 2015

Writing it

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2015).

Exploration by word and image of the relationship between physical movement and writing.

30 September 2015

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 Labourdette. (...)

24 March 2020

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 11

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’54s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that cars don’t exist...

1 December 2009

Algorithmic squares

The algorithms, which are supposed to square our gaze, open us up to the unsuspected poetry of the world. Series of 27 photos, treated with the “seam carving” technique, which reveals a disturbing strangeness. The seam carving or intelligent (...)

27 September 2009

1 min

Before the accident

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2015).

A few seconds before a fatal car accident.

27 April 2015

Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training

Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone. The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), which is involved since a long time in dissemination and education to the image, offered a training in filmmaking with mobile phone, which I (...)

28 February 2015

2 min

Rights Story

A collective movie (2’42s, 2021).

Speaking objects illustrate the eight « cultural rights ».

13 September 2021

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.

15 November 2019

My home window

Un film de Christopher (0’50s, 2009).

Almost without comment, the image speaks alone, its deep and simple language.

22 December 2009

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 18

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’49s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that these streets are canals...

19 December 2009

Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 6

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).

Let’s imagine for a moment that this trash can is a bus...

26 November 2009

The hectic life of our objects

Collective film (3’49s, 2018).

When everyone finds in himself his richness, his inner joy.

21 February 2018

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 in (...)

24 July 2013

Café des images: “Work in short(s)”, carte blanche to Benoît Labourdette

Films by Benoît Labourdette and results of a lively workshop at the ESAM in Caen. At the Café des images (Hérouville Saint-Clair - directed by Geneviève Troussier, an initiative hosted by Françoise Pouchin), regular meetings on the stakes of movies (...)

16 February 2011

Cartoon Pocket Films workshops

Traditionally, the making of a cartoon is a very long operation, which requires an investment of participants over a long period. With “Pocket Films” methods, it is possible to do and make cartoons, modest in terms of technology but but ambitious (...)

Animated Cinema

Since 2011, I have been offering workshops for the production of animated films from paper cut, in various contexts, notably in media libraries, at the Maison des metallos, at the Forum des images, at the Museum of Man->Art636], at the Grand (...)