An adult tree

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).

If I had known, if I could have, and yet I was always there.

Nature of reality in the digital age

Small kaleidoscope of thoughts about digital philosophy.

In my opinion, digital technology is not a subject that should be debated, that deserves to be positioned “for” or “against”. It is in fact an environment of existence, in the same way as nature, air, borders, economy, education... Digital (...)

“Creative digital practices and critical thinking training”: conference by Benoît Labourdette

Atelier Canopé 86 - Poitiers. Study and training day “EAC at the service of the development of critical thinking”.

Participative conference to illustrate how the training of critical thinking can effectively pass by the means of artistic creation. To inaugurate the study and training day “EAC in the service of the development of critical thinking”, for (...)

A tagged life

Living exhibition of 30 photographs.

This exhibition of 30 photographs proposes a narrative in images and words, which varies several times a day.Among the 2000 photographs, paintings, drawings and montages (by Benoît Labourdette) which constitute the “tags” of this website, thirty (...)

“Loop” : collective exhibition (Lyon Particule Gallery)

Video installation.

Video installation in tribute to my late son, as part of the group exhibition “Loop” at the Lyon Particule Gallery (Lyon, France).Visitors were invited to take pictures of the exhibition and of themselves in the exhibition, which they could (...)

Words sown on images

Series of 29 photographs illuminated by words.

On my proposal, people have written words opposite images chosen from the thousands that I propose on my website, those that “jumped out at them” and gave birth to words, which illuminate them and dig them, or sculpt them, in return.Life, (...)

Patiens litore (slow beach)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (55’33s, 2023).

“It takes the sea an hour to withdraw from your soul.” A withdrawal, an explosive-fix, a path to the origin, barely perceptible and yet inexorable.

Two hands

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’07s, 2023).

How to accompany the one who is no longer there?

“VR can still enter everyday use”

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Pablo Maillé in Usbek & Rica media.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has not yet been appropriated by the general public. It seems interesting to me to take a step aside, playful, to build our critical mind on VR. The Usbek & Rica media interviewed me on this subject, (...)

Cold fire at the castle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’17s, 2023).

At times, past, present, fiction and reality are intertwined. The present moment becomes a tale.

“On the beach of my imagination” : video installation in the hospital

Immersive device: permanent video installation at the Jacques Monod Hospital in Flers (Normandy - 2022).

Accounts of the issues at work in an art for health project. Every morning, the big wall of the waiting room of the hospital in Flers lights up by itself. Video images of nature, calm and serene, are projected there all day long. It is a space (...)

Back in time

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2023).

What if, what if, what if... sometimes you wish you could turn back the clock.

Films

My films are streamed here (often with English subtitles). Between experimentation and narration, I often work in series.In all fields of artistic expression, the series is an important figure, because it makes it possible to express a (...)

Creations

Photography, poetic writing, musical creation, painting, installation... You will find here my creations with other media than audiovisual. Because of the mechanical nature of its technical function, photography is for me a matter of time (...)

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., (...)

Action Stories

We are in a society of words, and in a society of images. The citizens have become producers and diffusers of their images, in addition to being spectators. The images and their circulations modify in depth the psychosocial dimension of our (...)

Innovation & Research

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 (...)

Benoît Labourdette

I have always had a multidisciplinary way of working between artistic creation, diffusion and cultural engineering, management, pedagogy, technology. These different fields interact, complement each other, feed and are in my background very (...)