Boris Labbé

Boris Labbé

Based on his drawing activity, Boris Labbé's work is characterized by hybridization, combining the use of digital moving image techniques with those specific to animated film. This approach, somewhere between tradition and innovation, forms an original and vibrant language, prone to improvisation and the calculation of probabilities, questioning the problems of representation, the relationship between painting and cinema, between music and dance, between the body and animals, plants and minerals.

His videos tend to break out of the spatio-temporal framework imposed by classical cinema; governed by the notion of expanded cinema, his works are not only destined for projection in the movie theater, but also tend towards other forms, notably installations. Boris Labbé creates a cinema without direct shooting, without actors, without characters, without dialogue, and whose narration, often dilated, remains open to the spectator’s interpretation. This apparent minimalism paves the way to maximums, with each project seeking its culmination until a certain form of depletion of the cinematic means deployed.

Boris Labbé’s work forms a cinema of multiplicity. Repetition, re-presentation, collages, patterns, metamorphoses, perpetual movement, as well as constant citations of art history, literature and philosophy, have all become essential resources of his audiovisual language.



BORIS LABBÉ was born in 1987 (France).
He lives and works in south west of France.

He studied contemporary art at the École supérieure d’art des Pyrénées in Tarbes, then at the EMCA - School of Animation Cinema in Angoulême - until 2011. Thereafter, the artist made several residences: the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, the HEAR - Haute école des arts du Rhin - in Strasbourg, CICLIC - Center-Val de Loire Region, VIDEOFORMES residence in Yssingeaux, the Tenjinyama Art Studio in Sapporo, the Q21 program of the Museums Quartier in Vienna, the Animation residence at Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montréal.

His works have been shown at international contemporary art exhibitions (Japan, United States, Canada, Austria, Spain) ; screened in over three hundred international film festivals (including Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, Ottawa, Toronto, Hiroshima…) ; broadcasted on television (France 2, Numero 23, Movistar +); or performed during audiovisual concerts (with the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie). In 2020 he collaborates with the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and signs the video scenography for his Swan Lake.

He has been collaborating since 2014 with Sacrebleu Productions for his work as a filmmaker. He is also represented by the re.riddle gallery (San Francisco) and the Miyu gallery (Paris). More recently he collaborates with Bandini Films and VIDEOFORMES to produce the video installation Monad (2020).

His films and video installations have received about fifty awards and honors from around the world, among others, the Grand Prize at Taichung International animation festival in Taiwan ; Grand Prize at Curtas Vila do Conde in Portugal ; Fipresci Prize at the Annecy Festival ; Grand Prize at Animafest Zagreb ; Grant Author of animation films from the Lagardère Foundation ; Golden Nica Animation at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz ; Grand Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo.

His short film The Fall was selected in special screenings at the 57th Semaine de la Critique, Cannes Festival.

Films on Vurchel

2024
Glass House
Directed by
2019
Ciciri
Directed by
2019
SIRKI
Directed by
Animation
Other crew
2019
Kaparamip
Directed by
Animation
2019
Tetarape
Directed by
2019
Ruunpe
Directed by
2018
La Chute
Directed by
2016
Any Road
Directed by
2015
Rhizome
Directed by
Is this you?
Claim your profile!