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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 and digital strategies.

  • We work with a wide range of players: cultural, educational, social, prevention and healthcare organizations, artistic companies, cities, cultural services, associations, production companies, institutional and professional networks.
  • We develop creative cultural and participatory projects that integrate digital technology, its challenges and its tools, for greater cultural democracy and cooperation, particularly with young people, in line with cultural rights.
  • We also support the development of professional practices, and provide training and consultancy on contemporary issues relating to images, digital technology, cultural practices and policies.

Areas of intervention and expertise:
Visual arts, cinema, museums, outdoor spaces, libraries, audiovisual and digital technical tools, heritage, live performance, semantic editorialization, youth, cultural rights, digital transformation, multidisciplinary synergy, audience participation.

Functions in which Benoît Labourdette production is involved:
Cultural action and artistic events (design and animation), mediation, consulting, support for professional practices, collective intelligence, creativity and cooperation methods, digital and web communication, audiovisual creation, professional training, research-action, teaching.

Benoît Labourdette production is a SASU with a capital of 46 800€. SIRET number: 818 146 128 00017 R.C.S. PARIS. NAF code 5911C. Head office: 113 bd. de l’Hôpital 75013 Paris. President : Benoît Labourdette. Contact : benoit benoitlabourdette.com / 06 80 03 19 83. Website : www.benoitlabourdette.com

“CinémA.I” in Studio 13-16 at the Centre Pompidou
Cultural professions and Artificial Intelligence

The cultural professions, like all professions, are and will be impacted by Artificial Intelligences, as much in work methods as in artistic and cultural creations and actions. These are subjects that Benoît Labourdette researches, and the Benoît (…)

The place of teenagers in cultural life
Culture, youth and digital

Cultural offerings are sometimes brutally questioned by the “young” audience. A challenge that manifests itself notably through indifference towards the prescriptions of cultural institutions, or even through disinterest in cultural venues. Over (…)

Mental Health and Cinema - Experiencing the World Through Images
Support for cultural policies

Drawing on Benoît Labourdette’s 30 years of experience in the field of cultural innovation and his research and methodological work, the Benoît Labourdette production agency supports cultural policies in their need for innovation, better (…)

Evaluating Arts and Cultural Education from the Artist's Perspective
Cultural policy

In the digital age, cultural policies, whatever their field, must in my view take digital images and their uses into account by citizens, especially the younger ones.Digital has put the image at the center of our lives. With these tools, (…)

Filming in connection
Artistic installation

Artistic installation, the existence in space and time of artistic forms is crucial because it is the way in which the work is modified by its relation to the spectator.

Ile-de-France leisure centers: cartoon workshops
Open Creative workshops

Workshops related to images, cinema, photography, animated films, but also writing, offered at cultural events to “passing” people. How to propose a requirement of creative quality, even in a very short time.

Jean-Baptiste Mathieu's website, author-director
Websites, video platforms, digital cooperation spaces

We support the design and implementation of web projects, to articulate strategic, editorial, technological, democratic, heritage, work organization and methodological issues.We accompany, work on and produce: online content strategies, (…)

By my window: Film what you see through a window in your home, and tell about an important memory.
Digital Participative Projects

In the context of cultural events, film festivals, theater festivals, launching of exhibitions, or in the school setting, proposals for innovative and participatory cultural actions with digital technology.

“Cultural Class” : creation of a photographic exhibition with a CM2 class
Creativity workshops

Creativity is essential in all fields of life and activities, as a relationship to oneself, a discovery of one’s abilities, and then daring to share and express oneself. Thus creativity workshops can be useful in all types of contexts: (…)

War On Screen Film Festival 2021
Moving screenings

Films in a neighborhood... Since 2011, we’ve been offering traveling screenings of short films in a neighborhood or building. These screenings, which require no prior installation, are carried out using a “pico-projector” (a portable video (…)

Region Poitou-Charentes : Digital Practices Training
Trainings for image education

Design and delivery of professional training in the field of image education, for teachers, facilitators, responsible for educational facilities, cultural and social, and cinema theater directors.With the new technology tools, to “connect” (…)

Catalogs of all editions of the Pocket Films Festival
Design of cultural events

Benoît Labourdette has always created and led cultural events around cinema. He has developed expertise and a network in terms of content, deployment strategies and working methods. His work ranges from creating festivals to assisting local (…)

Walk in the forest
Commissioning films and video content strategies

We produce commissioned films and their possible projection devices, tailoring the service to the exact requirements. We invent the working methods, often collective, that will enable the project to meet its objectives in the best possible way, (…)

90 seconds contest - Thematic Films production
Pocket Films workshops for everyone

Benoît Labourdette has developed a series of film-making workshops using pocket cameras for all audiences, including teenagers. These workshops are highly effective, creative and rewarding for young people, and therefore constructive, as well as (…)

Digifest: conference and creative masterclass with drone
Film workshops with drones

The drone is “democratizing”, begins to enter our lives. The world seen from above, the real world through this flying eye, disembodied, as in our vision of virtual worlds... our representation of the world is changing because of this new “look”, (…)

Mashup Film Festival - Making animation movies (Forum des images, France)
Cartoon Pocket Films workshops

Traditionally, the making of a cartoon is a very long operation, which requires an investment of participants over a long period. With “Pocket Films” methods, it is possible to do and make cartoons, modest in terms of technology but but ambitious (…)

SCAM : “Workshop about Digital Media Diffusion : basics and best practices”
Trainings for new media

Benoît Labourdette designs and leads professional training courses for new media, within training centers (CEFPF, INA Expert, Universities) as well as directly for companies or professional networks (ARTE, Forum des images, Documentaire sur Grand (…)

ESAV Toulouse : Pocket Films Workshop
Pocket Films Workshops for professionals

Workshops for filmmaking with pocket cameras that I run through schools of art, cinema and other vocational training centers (Femis, Le Fresnoy, ESAV Toulouse, CEFPF,Imagine Institute Ouagadougou...). Appropriating very light production (…)

ARTE - Training manufacture of a multimedia work
Multimedia

“Multimedia” is an old term (Bob Goldstein, 1966) that refers to the fact of mobilizing together several media (text, still or moving image, sound, interactivity...). The use of the Internet is essentially multimedia. There are regular attempts (…)

Organization of digital items for the digitized films of Jacques Tati
Digital cinema

I put out and I accompany the digital cinema workflows for producers, distributors, cinema and art schools : choice of cameras, post-production devices, broadcast quality... For example, I regularly manufacture DCPs.

Coffret DVD « Je ne suis pas féministe mais... »
DVD / Blu-ray

Les DVD (depuis 1997) et Blu-ray (depuis 2006), supports de diffusion optiques, sont désormais frappés d’obsolescence. Cependant, ils existent toujours, et peuvent encore avoir certains emplois. Benoît Labourdette est expert dans ces technologies (…)