Innovation

Prosopopoeia

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’47s, 2016). Produced by Arcadi Île-de-France.

Documentary on the exhibition “Prosopopoeia, when objects come to life.” The look of a machine, the drone, on objects endowed with autonomy.

iMédiacinéma 2013 (Vitrolles - France)

I accompanied the design and implementation of the proposed participatory audiovisual creation in the territory of the city of Vitrolles and Bouches du Rhone.My actions were: support for (...)

Trio

Experimental film by Benoît Labourdette (7’26s, 2015). With Marta Zielinska and Senghte Vanh Bouapha.

A couple of “Living ghosts” emanate from the walls, floors, windows, of an old apartment.

Biarritz Media Library: workshop for the production of VR films

Filmmaking workshop in Virtual Reality for teenagers at the Biarritz Library. Co-produced by Passeurs d’images - ALCAThe Biarritz media library, open to new technologies under the impetus of (...)

Tutorials for making sequence-shot films

Podcast by Benoît Labourdette (17’30s, 2020).

Complete pedagogical method for making three types of films in sequence shot: collective film, animated film, memory at the window.During the confinement period in March-April 2020, EPT Est (...)

Audiovisual workshops to combat gender stereotypes

Methodological proposal

Thought-provoking ideas and proposals for audiovisual workshop concepts for nuanced and useful actions, with the aim of building critical thinking on gender stereotypes. Stereotypes and (...)

Digital culture meetings: round table “VR, digital and education”.

Discovery of educational experiences using Virtual Reality, either as a tool or as an object for building critical thinking skills.Round table moderated by Benoît Labourdette, as part of the (...)

The singularity, a collaborative transmedia artistic project

“The singularity” is a collaborative transmedia project, launched in 2016 by Benoît Labourdette. Around a thematic spine, over a long period of time (several years), film creations, theatrical (...)

Photos of the construction site

A film by Benoît Labourdette (12’43s, 2017). Text and photographs by Myriam Drosne.

Binocular walk in 360° inside the memory of a project of photographs of a construction site.

Movie Marathon Evry 2013 - Films made

List of films made at the Movie Marathon Evry 2013 (France) Hush (Louisa Gaillard) The dream of Lyndi (Boulay Leander) 3’14 Fear (MOHAMMAD Usman) 3’34 Super condom (Faleme Dimitri) - 1’22 (without (...)

Shoot movies with mobile phones as of 2005, when cameras appear in phones, shoot movies with drones from 2013, when he sold quantities at Christmas, use standalone portable projectors to project movies in the streets, deflect the techniques of Virtual Reality...

Technical tools, when they appear, are often the product of industrial and commercial projects. They must be questioned by artists, because they change our representations of the world, our ways of living, and it is essential to build our critical distance.

I take advantage of technical innovations to question them, to divert them, within the framework of my own artistic projects and collective projects, research projects, and public cultural events, creative and playful, festivals in particular.

Post-confinement cultural projects

What’s the point of culture? What is cinema? Will we go back to cultural places? Is it necessary to rethink cultural proposals in order to adapt them? But adapt them to what and how? These are fundamental questions that are being asked today by (...)

Moving screenings

Movies meeting a neighborhood... Since 2011, I propose “night journey” travelling projections of short films in a district building. No installation, these projections are made using a pico-projector (portable projectors). This is the “mobile (...)

Virtual Reality

The films called “VR” (Virtual Reality) are films, linear or interactive, shot with 360° cameras, which can be viewed either on screen by moving inside the image with the mouse or the finger, either with a helmet placed in front of the eyes while (...)

Drones

The drone, this flying camera that comes among us, raises, for a filmmaker, important issues. Military object, object for surveillance and death, object of cartographic ubiquity by multinationals, and soon business purpose, delivery device. (...)

Pocket Films

Pocket Films began as a film festival, founded by Benoît Labourdette with Forum des images (Paris, France, 2005-2010), dedicated to the creation of films with cell phones and pocket cameras. Its success made that it has become a common name : we (...)

Research about pictures

The image has become a language that everyone “speaks” on a daily basis, much more so than before the democratization of digital tools. Thus the stakes of images touch more than ever our existence in a very direct way, at the psychological, (...)

Performing arts

Performing arts is my training and my initial culture. Young actor in the 90’s with among other La Compagnie du Chaland and Trottoir Express (France), I was teached to the work of the mask and the art of the jester with William Nedel. I also very (...)