Innovation

Imaginary territory

Artwork digital video. Benoît Labourdette (5’51s, 2014).

Abstract shapes, children color from the sky.

Port Zones Film Festival : pocket films workshop and travelling projection

Workshop for the production of films for teenagers, then organization by young people of the itinerant screening of these films, within the framework of the Port Areas Film Festival (...)

Marie Vermillard’s video interview

Marie Vermillard is a director (Lila Lili, Small revelations, Spoken suite ...). She has directed a short film in 2011, “Blinded bellow”, with mobile phone.In this interview, she explains how the (...)

About the symposium

International Symposium : Mobile Phone and Creation. Film, video, writing, games, music, applicationsSymposium organized by : Laurent Creton, Roger Odin, Laurence Allard, Benoît Labourdette. (...)

MA Scène nationale Montbéliard: “Joseph”, a travelling film by Joseph Morder

A film designed to be screened on the city walls on a travelling basis.Yannick Marzin, director of the Scène nationale de Montbéliard, proposed to the filmmaker Joseph Morder and myself to design (...)

Ministry of Culture (France) : National Consultation on Arts and Cultural Education

The Ministry of Culture and Communication (France) launched in November 2012 a “National Consultation on Arts Education” to “enable all young people, in all territories, access to art and culture, (...)

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 (...)

Alain Fleischer’s video interview

Alain Fleischer, filmmaker, artist, photographer, writer, director of Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts contemporains was the most regular contributor of the Festival Pocket Films: From 2005 to (...)

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.

Aubervilliers and La Courneuve : Films are on the walls !

The films are on the walls : cinema-walks in Seine Saint Denis (France). Sunday, October 25 and Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 18h. At dusk, guests are invited to stroll like no other, you will (...)

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 (...)