Benoît Labourdette is a filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation and digital strategies. He is also a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur.

This website proposes the sharing of his films and other works, as well as methodological, cultural and pedagogical resources.

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Alchemical video mapping performance
Alchemical video mapping performance

Saturday, June 3, 2023. As part of Nuit Blanche 2023. By Isabel Bertelot, Benoît Labourdette and “Les Manoirs”.

When in the night, alive with reminiscences of the female silent cinema, lights are born in the pictorial darkness, and letters and moving words emerge, composed as sensitive and musical bodies, (...)
3 June 2023
  4 min
“China : window on blows” - Underneath the images - ARTE
“China : window on blows” - Underneath the images - ARTE

Issued on February 8, 2023.

Decoding images of violence, a perilous exercise.The tv channel ARTE asked me to participate in one of the programs of the series “Le dessous des images”, on the question of amateur images (...)
8 February 2023
  3 min
The true nature (thought 426)
The true nature (thought 426)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’, 2023).

Nature is a computer.If we think, in philosophical depth, of what nature is, with the DNA code that programs the living, this code itself being modulated by the environment and history, (...)
18 June 2023
“Territorial approach, participation, youth and digital technology”: interview of Benoît Labourdette by Serge Saada (52', 2021)
“Territorial approach, participation, youth and digital technology”: interview of Benoît Labourdette by Serge Saada (52’, 2021)

Observatory of cultural mediation in the social field.

As part of the Observatory of cultural mediation in the social field, Serge Saada interviewed Benoît Labourdette on the impact of the proliferation of digital images on young people and the (...)
20 February 2022
  2 min
Waves are water
Waves are water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).

Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh.
7 March 2023
“The future machine” website
“The future machine” website

Design, production and animation of a resource site for the contents of a tour of creative workshops.

A website designed to implement cultural rights in form and content.“The machine to travel into the future” : www.ateliersnumeriques-culturesducoeur.org/2023During the summer of 2023, (...)
7 August 2023
  7 min

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Digital technology, a tool for mediation and cultural democracy
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 (...)
25 September 2023
  5 min
Online summary of the Meetings on participative creation 2022
Online summary of the Meetings on participative creation 2022

Théâtre de la Poudrerie / observatory of cultural policies.

Accompaniment in the collection of media and their editorialization, then realization of the web page of the “deliverable” of the third edition of the biennial of the participative creation (...)
12 September 2023
  3 min
A conversation with Benoît Labourdette
A conversation with Benoît Labourdette

Interview with Benoît Labourdette by Roger Odin for Bianco e nero magazine (2010).

The film theorist Roger Odin (1939-2023) saw in the arrival of video in cell phones “for the first time in the history of cinema, the establishment of cinematic language as ordinary language”. (...)
9 September 2023
  8 min
Roger Odin
Roger Odin

Instrumental music, 2023, by Benoît Labourdette (2’32s).

A piece with a fragile breath, that I play to pay homage to you, friend who has just left.
6 September 2023
  1 min
Fondation Afnic: films presenting winning projects 2022
Fondation Afnic: films presenting winning projects 2022

5 films directed by Benoît Labourdette.

Short films presenting a selection of projects supported by the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity in 2022, for broadcast on social networks and project promotion.In 2022, the Afnic (...)
4 September 2023
  1 min
Sleeping in Paris
Sleeping in Paris

Instrumental music played on the Korg Zenology synthesizer (3’16s, 2023).

We try to clear our minds, to calm ourselves down, to face the drama. And then sometimes, even when we get carried away, our heart beats too fast.Music from the film « Sleeping in Paris » (...)
3 September 2023
  1 min

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Extinction of a star
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 (...)

Modern love
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 (...)

My pleasure in building tools is not just an escape.
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., (...)

City of Niort : Realization of a film with drone by teenagers
Cultural activities

We live in a society of words, and in a society of images and a digital world. Citizens have become producers and distributors of their own images, as well as spectators. Images and their circulation are profoundly altering the psychosocial (...)

BPI Centre Pompidou: production of a collective film in Virtual Reality
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 (...)

Movie Marathon Evry 2013 - Films made
Consulting

I provide consultancy services to cultural and social structures, companies and local authorities on issues of : Implementation of audience participation strategies. Innovation in cultural projects and professional practices, mainly around (...)

Ciclic - Training Passeurs image 2015 : The Pocket Film
Training

I design, build, coordinate and lead professional training programs, for innovation in practices and methods, in the fields of cultural action and policy, audiovisual production, digital technologies and uses, participation and cooperation in (...)

City of Choisy-le-Roi : “To be here and there at the Navigators”
Corporate films

I produce and direct corporate films and their possible projection sets, articulating the work with the exact needs. Invent methods of work, often collective, which will enable the project to meet its objectives better both in its content and (...)

Manufacture of the screening Blu-ray discs for Jacques Tati's movies
Technology

Technologies are the tools with which we build projects and with which our working methods evolve. I have a multi-disciplinary mastery of several technical fields, and can therefore design, support production and/or build efficient tools in the (...)

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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 (...)

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Balustrade
Balustrade

Felt
Felt

Quantum mechanic
Quantum mechanic

Pedagogy
Pedagogy

Software
Software

Jazz
Jazz