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The Benoît Labourdette production agency builds cultural and digital experiences and develops creative engineering. It draws on the expertise of its founder Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation and digital strategies.

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CNPFT: Training on uses and educational projects around digital technology with young people and children from 12 years old
Cultural engineering

The Benoît Labourdette production agency builds cultural and digital experiences and develops creative engineering. It draws on the expertise of its founder Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation (…)

Don't try to control anything, to let myself be influenced by the things that happen around me, not to resist against them, even if I have no idea why I do them.
Our resources

Here I share methodological and intellectual resources: philosophical proposals, pedagogical and creative methods, digital technical tools, political, sociological and practical reflections on cultural action in the contemporary world, etc., (…)

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Artistic creation

Film, photography, poetic writing, musical creation, painting, installation... you’ll find Benoît Labourdette’s creations here. Cinema is Benoît Labourdette’s primary and central practice. It is an architectural material, experimented with in (…)

“Distances”: a look at a new situation (ocim)
Research & innovation

My approach is as much cultural, artistic, democratic as it is reflective, imprinting a multidisciplinarity to my activities, whether personal or collective: Shooting films with cell phones since 2005, when cameras appeared in phones, making (…)

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Trailer for the 2024 International Women's Film Festival (France Télévisions - TV version - 8 seconds)
Trailer of the International Women’s Film Festival 2024

A film by Benoît Labourdette (30s & 8s, 2024).

There’s stamina in the careers of great sportswomen and directors alike. Olympe se bouge! Meet the women in front of the camera; directing and self-actualization. International Women’s Film (…)
15 March 2024
  1 min
Podcast: “The living archive” (Benoît Labourdette, 44', 2023, french speaking).
Podcast: “The living archive”

Benoît Labourdette reflects on the challenges of digital archiving in the arts and culture (44’, 2023).

How empowering people to take responsibility for archiving and using data can be a real strategy for the vitality of creation, both artistically and economically.In this podcast (44 minutes), I (…)
16 November 2023
  3 min
- 1 - Introduction by Noël Corbin, General Delegate of the Délégation générale à la transmission, aux territoires et à la démocratie culturelle at the French Ministry of Culture
Digital technology, a tool for mediation and cultural democracy

Webinar on Monday, October 9, 2023 from 10am to 1pm.

Restitution of the “Digital Workshops” project by Cultures du Cœur and Benoît Labourdette Production, offered as part of the Été culturel program with the support of the French Ministry of (…)
9 October 2023
  2 min
OPC Media: “What if we changed our posture?”
OPC Media: “What if we changed our posture?”

How can we learn to consider the richness of teenage digital practices and avoid giving in to preconceived ideas?

How can we learn to consider the richness of teenagers’ digital practices and not give in to preconceived ideas? For Benoît Labourdette, if we want to design cultural projects that are attentive (…)
31 August 2023
  7 min

Latest publications

Sequence Shot Festival
Sequence Shot Festival

Campredon art & image contemporary art center (l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue - Vaucluse, France)

First edition of the only festival in France devoted exclusively to the sequence-shot form (unedited films), created and organized by Stanislas Trinssoutrop.Films by Benoît Labourdette (…)
14 April 2024
  1 min
Enregistrement du webinaire du 21 mars 2024.
“Involving young people in summer cultural projects: issues, avenues of work, proposals”

Webinar hosted by Benoît Labourdette (Thursday, March 21, 2024, 9am-10am).

“Young people” are the main target of summer cultural projects in towns, villages and suburbs. And yet, professionals in the cultural, educational and social fields know just how difficult it can (…)
21 March 2024
  7 min
Fragments-images
Fragments-images

Everyday Philosophical Tales

Written images of the world that evoke and build philosophical thoughts, gleaned from the encounters and shocks that life is woven with. Writing in the reality of confrontation. Confidence. Like (…)
13 March 2024
  1 min
The two boys
The two boys

In this midday train in a quiet Paris neighborhood, metro sparse, a very loud voice on the phone. Two teenagers sitting side by side on two folding seats. The bored one speaks. He hangs up and (…)
12 March 2024
  1 min

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Photographs, paintings, drawings and assemblies by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated). Click on one tag to reveal all.

Palimpsest
Palimpsest

Sony
Sony

La Marseillaise
La Marseillaise

The singularity
The singularity

The “Technological Singularity”, commonly called “The Singularity”, is the hypothesis of a future tipping point, located between 2030 and 2040, (…)