Glass House

intricate abstract animation

As celestial beings descend to Earth vitiating its population, the world’s order unbalances. Initiated by these terms, a tragic fall leads to the parturition of crucial opposites: Hell and Heaven’s circles.

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

Short film by Boris Labbe

Short film by Boris Labbé

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

Audiovisual concert short film by Boris Labbe and Daniele Ghisi "- so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Video installation (loop) EMCA 2010.

Boris Labbé offers a rearranged, reworked, re-dubbed version of the scenographic work produced for Angelin Preljocaj’s 2020 creation: Le Lac des Cygnes. The videos show the constant tension between natural and architectural elements. The landscapes, often very dark, are both hyper-realistic and hyper-artificial. They bring us face to face with the possibility of a world which is tipping ever more towards virtuality or disproportionate construction.

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

Abstract animation by Boris Labbé

This project is developing around Japanese art history and literature references (The Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book) and unfolds as a great sensory fresco with strong emotional potential. A heterogeneous collection of drawn, animated and sound scenes are taken from the digital material; they recreate a sort of subjective world (inner and outer world) in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures.

Experimental film & Installation. This is the video editing used for video projections in the short film "Caverne". The video was then passed in negative and projected onto walls of a cave.2011