Pocketfilms-Empathy
Project to support psychosocial and pedagogical practices around the empathy clinic and using images. By Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette, accompanied bySonia Winter.
A website giving details of the methods and results opened on 1 March 2018:www.pocketfilms-empathie.com.
Foundations of the project
For several years now, Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette have combined their skills, between psychoanalysis and filmmaking workshops, to organize training courses, internships and practical guidance in the fields of education and social action.
Presentation of the project
By Serge Tisseron.
What is a “Pocket film”? Pocket as a pocket, of course. And film? Not as a film, but as digital, of course. So, from digital in the pocket, everyone has understood that this is a mobile phone. Movies made on mobile phones. But for whom and why? First for yourself, because looking at the world through a screen changes the way you perceive it, and even more so when you have fun telling what you see.
A Pocket movie is a narrative supported by images, and images augmented by narration, alone or in groups. A way of restarting both an empathic look at one’s experiences of the world, and at the perception that others have of it. And sometimes the opportunity to make a fresh start.
This site presents how to transform the phone we have in our pocket into a writing tool, in order to reconnect with the expression of emotions, then with speech. He explains how the creation of Pocket films encourages the development of the various components of empathy and demonstrates the value of training and transmission around these practices.
This project is part of Serge Tisseron’s “Small Empathy Labs” dynamic.
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” with the practices of youth and enlighten.
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Participatory reverse photography workshop
A method for deconstructing relationships with images.
Pedagogical method that transforms the phone into a tool for collective creation to question our relationship with images, democratize the (…) -
Multidisciplinary photographic exhibition creation workshop
As part of the Awakening the eye training program (Institut pour la photographie).
Animation of the latest annual, hands-on image education training session for teachers, offered by the Institut pour la photographie as part of (…) -
Workshop “Tools, games and workshops for image education” - Images en bibliothèques
A story of the session “How to run a video production workshop differently”, led by Benoît Labourdette.
Images en bibliothèques has launched a new course, designed by Florian Lecron, for professionals in the library, film, education and culture (…) -
“The use of screens at the heart of child protection”: conference / training by Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette
Proposed by the Federation of the sunbeams of childhood and the IRTS PACA - Corsica.
Training day for 80 social actors of the child protection, to equip the professionals with the good use of the images and the digital in an (…) -
DRAC and DAAC Pays de la Loire: “Learning to see and hear, a collective experience”
A professional training to collectively invent projection devices in order to build a greater intimacy with the material of the image. Then draw (…) -
House of the image, Appointments of the image #6: “Intimacy, images, social networks. Existing and living together in the digital age”
Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat (…) -
Pocketfilms-Empathy
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CNPFT: Training on uses and educational projects around digital technology with young people and children from 12 years old
Training in digital image education at the CNFPT (Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale)..The objective of this 4-day training (…) -
Ciné Lab # 6: “New usages, digital cultures. What (R) evolution for cinemas?”
Day of reflection and common development of innovative projects, for cinema operators and mediators.The ACRIRA and the GRAC (Rhône Alpes (…) -
Vatos Locos Video: “Designing and implementing artistic practice projects to combat racism and discrimination”
Vocational training for leaders, teachers and managers of social and cultural structures. Video as a Tool for Citizenship.The association Vatos (…) -
Observatory of Cultural Policies: “Territorial Projects and Cooperation”
Territory, digital, culture, participation, participation, creativity... keys to understanding and methodologies for relevant and innovative (…) -
Image’Est : Images education facing everyday image practices
As part of the Festival of documentary films “The real in sight”, Image’ is, business education to the images in Lorraine, proposed on 18 November (…) -
East image: Cover images that make violence happen
Training on how to teach about violent images.East Image, Regional Centre for Arts Education and Training in Cinema and Audiovisual, organized (…) -
National Meeting of coordinators School and Cinema: “Image education 2.0”
Benoît Labourdette Conference and workshop on the development of image educational practices in the digital era.Each year the association (…) -
Region Poitou-Charentes : Digital Practices Training
Cross Training to digital practices for mediators and teachers.With Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou Charentes region, we have provided (…) -
Ciclic - Training Passeurs image 2015 : The Pocket Film
“Pocket Films” trainging for social workers and street educators - Central France Region.Ciclic Regional Pole for the moving image, the book (…) -
Embassy of France in Spain: Pocket Films Training for teaching French as a foreign language
Filmmaking techniques using cell phones for teaching French as a foreign language in Spain.The linguistic and educational Cooperation (…) -
Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training
Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone.The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), which is involved since a long time in (…) -
Poitou-Charentes Region : “Pocket Films Training” for teachers
Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou Charentes region, proposed as part of “Lycéens in cinemas”, that one of the features of the program be replaced (…) -
Tell me your technologies contest - Pocket Films training
Train mediators who will lead filmmaking workshops.The association Les atomes crochus offers since 2013 the contest “Tell me your (…) -
Video Les beaux jours : Mashup workshop
To make animated films from cut paper. The meetings of image education in AlsaceAs part of the meetings of image education in Alsace, organized (…) -
Association Hors champs - Formation Pocket Films
Transmission d’outils pédagogiques innovants pour l’éducation à l’image.L’association Hors Champs à Niort, organisatrice du Festival Takavoir (…) -
ECLA Aquitaine : 1st Regional Forum on Education in the image - Conference and Workshop
The agency ÉCLA, Pôle régional aquitain d’éducation artistique et de formation au cinéma et à l’audiovisuel, held Tuesday, December 10, 2013 the (…) -
“Image carriers” Brittany - Training “portable cinema”
At the invitation of the UFFEJ Britanny (Laurence Dabosville), I proposed a day of training for project managers “Smugglers images” of the (…) -
“Pocket Films” training for facilitators (Savigny-sur-Orge, France)
Peggy Nacitas, host video MJC Savigny-sur-Orge (and former coordinator of Imag’Essone Festival), having suggested that I host this year’s (…)
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CEFPF : Introduction to web documentary and transmedia Trainings for new media
As part of a course “Producing for TV” in CEFPF (European Center for Production of Films), I gave a half-day introductory course on topics “web (…) -
Canopé 92: Project of collaborative web documentary by nine classes Digital Participative Projects
Accompaniment of a collaborative web documentary project initiated by Canopé 92 for the teachers of nine classes in the Hauts-de-Seine department. (…) -
Vatos Locos Video: “Designing and implementing artistic practice projects to combat racism and discrimination” Trainings for image education
Vocational training for leaders, teachers and managers of social and cultural structures. Video as a Tool for Citizenship.The association Vatos (…) -
Paths for projects for the prevention of violence through audio-visual practice Pedagogical structure of a workshop.
Violence, and especially “gratuitous” violence, with no obvious explanation and operated by young people who are a priori not concerned, is a (…) -
Art and Culture in the Service of Psychosocial Skills Account of a founding seminar for professionals of the Judicial Protection of Youth in Limousin.
On November 27, 2025, the Limousin Regional Directorate of PJJ brought together its teams for a half-day of collective reflection on psychosocial (…)
