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APSV: Conference “Potentialities of image education in the field of social action”
APSV: Conference “Potentialities of image education in the field of social action”
“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)
Newimages Festival: “Education and immersive images” (round table)
Newimages Festival: “Education and immersive images” (round table)
“Creation - Interview#1 with Benoît Labourdette” by Carole Contant
“Creation - Interview#1 with Benoît Labourdette” by Carole Contant
Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)
Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)
Gaîté Lyrique : UAV images
Gaîté Lyrique : UAV images
MJC Dole: “Image Education: Popular Education for the 21<sup class="typo_exposants">st</sup> Century?”
MJC Dole: “Image Education: Popular Education for the 21st Century?”
Ramdam Festival: conference and realization of a collective film
Ramdam Festival: conference and realization of a collective film
“Culture differently: postures and methods for tomorrow”
“Culture differently: postures and methods for tomorrow”
Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.
Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.
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Video and audio recordings, documents, abstracts, of conferences that I run in different contexts.

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“Culture differently: postures and methods for tomorrow”
“Culture differently: postures and methods for tomorrow”

“L’expert du jeudi”: lecture by Benoît Labourdette for the Cultures du Cœur network (March 26, 2026).

On March 26, 2026, I gave a talk for the national network of Cultures du Cœur, as part of their “L’expert du jeudi” format, a regular videoconference that allows regional coordinators across the network to step back from their daily practice and (…)

26 March 2026
  11 min
The Digital as Living Environment: Rethinking Cultural Practices in the Anthropocene Era
The Digital as Living Environment: Rethinking Cultural Practices in the Anthropocene Era

Presentation by Benoît Labourdette at the Graduate Schools Seminar “Imaginaries of the Anthropocene and New Contexts” (University of Burgundy, December 11, 2025).

On December 11, 2025, at the invitation of Alain Chenevez, Senior Lecturer (HDR) in Sociology at the University of Burgundy, I spoke alongside Olivier Servais, digital anthropologist at the Catholic University of Louvain, as part of the Graduate (…)

11 December 2025
  6 min
Conference by Benoît Labourdette: “EAC and cultural rights: convergences to be identified and implemented”
Conference: “EAC and cultural rights: convergences to be identified and implemented”

Dans le cadre des Rencontres territoriales “Artistic and cultural education & Territorial cultural projects” (Foix, February 5, 2025).

How can cultural rights be a tool for better implementation of artistic and cultural education projects? And how we can identify convergences between the two, and how one can help the other, or the other can help the other!As part of the (…)

5 February 2025
  8 min
Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.
Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.

JE-DIS de la FEMS 2025 #1

A richly illustrated webinar on the subject of audiovisuals in museums, from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web. Moderated by Benoît Labourdette, with Maud Gouy (Project Manager - Universcience), Édith Joseph (…)

16 January 2025
  1 min
Participatory conference by Benoît Labourdette “Artificial Intelligence and creation”.
Artificial Intelligence and Creation” course for teachers

Podcast of a participatory conference by Benoît Labourdette.

Co-animation by Benoît Labourdette and Laura Schlenker (La fabrique média) of a one-day course for teachers on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and creation, organized by the Délégation Académique aux Arts et à la Culture of the Grenoble (…)

10 June 2024
  4 min
Enregistrement du webinaire du 21 mars 2024.
“Involving young people in summer cultural projects: issues, avenues of work, proposals”

Webinar hosted by Benoît Labourdette (Thursday, March 21, 2024, 9am-10am).

“Young people” are the main target of summer cultural projects in towns, villages and suburbs. And yet, professionals in the cultural, educational and social fields know just how difficult it can be to mobilize them, and thus to successfully (…)

21 March 2024
  19 min
- 1 - Introduction by Noël Corbin, General Delegate of the General Delegation for Transmission, Territories and Cultural Democracy at the French Ministry of Culture
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 Culture.For the past 2 years, Cultures du Cœur, in (…)

9 October 2023
  4 min
“creation - Interview#1 with Benoît Labourdette” by Carole Contant
“Creation - Interview#1 with Benoît Labourdette” by Carole Contant

Videoconference interview (1h13’, 2023).

Benoît Labourdette explains in a practical and conceptual way his methods for creation and the pedagogical framework, based on a commentary on an example given by Carole Contant. Links with François Roustang’s approachThis interview is the (…)

12 May 2023
  3 min
Podcast of the meeting with Benoît Labourdette at the TMNLab café on March 9, 2023 (1h08').
TMNLab: “Digital technology is not a subject that deserves a position for or against...” - Benoît Labourdette

Podcast of the meeting with Benoît Labourdette at the TMNLab café on March 9, 2023 (1h08’).

At the invitation of Anne Le Gall, exchange with Benoît Labourdette on innovative and agile working methods for the cultural sector, thanks to digital tools, for a change of posture and openness to the interests of audiences, young people in (…)

9 March 2023
  24 min
Présentation par Benoît Labourdette du projet “Crée ton film sur la mémoire du quartier” (5'53s).
"Create your own film on the memory of the neighborhood in Villejuif

Presentation of the project by Benoît Labourdette to the Villejuif City Council on February 9, 2023 (5’53s).

On February 9, 2023, the “citizen hour” of the Villejuif (Val de Marne) city council was devoted to culture for all in the city. Several projects were presented, including “Create your film on the memory of the neighborhood”, a film-making (…)

9 February 2023
  3 min
Performance phones (ACCES - EMA - June 18, 2022)
“Smartphone, potential tool of the contemporary artist”

Round table organized by “accès)s(”, June 18, 2022.

Sharing thoughts on the smartphone as a creative tool. Round table proposed and moderated by Jean-Jacques Gayaccess)s( is a partner of the EMA (ébouriffons le monde des arts) festival, which will take place from June 17 to 19 at La Forge (…)

18 June 2022
  5 min
“Creative digital practices and critical thinking training”: conference by Benoît Labourdette (1h05', 2022, french)
“Creative digital practices and critical thinking training”: conference by Benoît Labourdette

Atelier Canopé 86 - Poitiers. Study and training day “EAC at the service of the development of critical thinking”.

Participative conference to illustrate how the training of critical thinking can effectively pass by the means of artistic creation. To inaugurate the study and training day “EAC in the service of the development of critical thinking”, for (…)

11 May 2022
  5 min
Audio recording of the conference “Artistic creation and digital heritage”.
“Artistic creation and digital heritage”: conference by Benoît Labourdette

Bibliothèque Forney (Paris) on Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 7:30 pm to 9 pm. Free admission.

Awareness and responsibility in the present with regard to our digital heritage are the guarantee of the construction of our humanity.Human beings have always told the story of their sensitivities and their visions of the world by all possible (…)

28 April 2022
  4 min
“Territorial approach, participation, youth and digital technology”: interview with 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 public in general. Here is the soundtrack of the video. (…)

20 February 2022
  3 min
Travelling Rennes 2021: “Cinema and festivals in the age of containment: inspiring innovations”
Travelling Rennes 2021: “Cinema and festivals in the age of containment: inspiring innovations”

Professional meeting led by Benoît Labourdette (duration: 1h35’).

How can we draw inspiration for the future of film exhibition from innovative projects carried out during the period of confinement in 2020?Professional meeting led by Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, expert in new media and cultural (…)

19 February 2021
  4 min
Professional meeting “Public participation”: presentation by Benoît Labourdette
Professional meeting “Public participation”: presentation by Benoît Labourdette

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Jean-Yves de Lépinay (11’37s, 2020).

Sharing examples of audiovisual creation workshops conducted in the spirit of cultural rights: moving from “participation” to “interaction.”This trust we choose to put in others is a risk we take, it changes us. We take the risk of being able (…)

8 December 2020
  3 min
“Cultural participation”: interview with Benoît Labourdette.
“Cultural participation”: interview with Benoît Labourdette.

Interview with Benoît Labourdette (4’39s, 2020).

Video presentation of Benoît Labourdette’s approach to the democratic dimension of cultural action.

8 December 2020
  3 min
Online training course: “Short film, digital and 21<sup class="typo_exposants">st</sup> Century: new media, new uses, new paths”.
Online training course: “Short film, digital and 21st Century: new media, new uses, new paths”.

43rd Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival : film analysis course.

The Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival always starts with a two-day course. For the 43rd edition of the festival in 2020, the workshop is animated by Benoît Labourdette, and takes place in video, on the theme “Short film, digital and 21st (…)

22 June 2020
  7 min
Pocket Films Empathy - Speech by Benoît Labourdette (7'30s)
BnF: Pocket Films Empathy, as part of “Views on Serge Tisseron”

Short lecture by Benoît Labourdette (7’30s).

Public synthetic presentation of the “Pocket Films Empathy” approach (Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette), by involving the spectators, so that they live the subject from the inside.On the occasion of the donation of his archives to the (…)

30 November 2019
  3 min
Nantes métropole: “Cultural and digital mediation in common” meeting
Nantes métropole: “Cultural and digital mediation in common” meeting

Animation by Benoît Labourdette of a day of sharing digital mediation tools for cultural and digital mediators in the city of Nantes. September 17, 2019. Intentions and MeansIn order to transmit digital mediation tools that can be effective, (…)

17 September 2019
  4 min
APSV: Conference “Potentialities of image education in the field of social action” by Benoît Labourdette
APSV: Conference “Potentialities of image education in the field of social action”

How filmmaking workshop practices, if conducted in the right way, can build strong social bonds.

16 September 2019
  2 min
Digital Culture Meeting: round table “VR, digital and education” (audio - french - 1h36')
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 Digital Culture Meeting 2019, organized by (…)

19 June 2019
  3 min
Observatory of Cultural Policies: “The challenge of mediation is not in the tool, but in the use”.
Observatory of Cultural Policies: “The challenge of mediation is not in the tool, but in the use”.

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette by the Observatory of cultural policies (3’52s, 2019).

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette: why and how to conduct cultural mediations for the younger generations in the digital age.Directed by Aurélie Doulmet.

1 June 2019
  2 min
Interview vidéo de Benoît Labourdette : “Les images sont comme des mots pour les jeunes d'aujourd'hui”
Observatory of cultural policies: “Images are like words for today’s young people”

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette by the Observatory of cultural policies (5’, 2019).

Video interview with Benoît Labourdette: state of play of image practices and young people’s needs in terms of image education.Director: Aurélie Doulmet.

1 June 2019
  2 min
Colloquium ENS Louis Lumière: forms, experiences and devices: audiovisual production in the face of “immersive” technologies

Dialogue on creation in virtual reality with Benoît Labourdette (filmmaker and producer, BL Prod) and Teddy Aymard (producer, Le bureau des curiosités), with a moment of practice so that the gesture nourishes the thought.International (…)

18 April 2019
  8 min
Conference “Digital creation and self-esteem” by Benoît Labourdette (french).
Image Forum: conference “When digital creation enhances self-esteem”.

Active conference to equip social actors with digital skills to work on self-esteem with adolescents. Exchange of experiences and practices, and proposal of a lived experience.The [Image Forum-https://www.forumdesimages.fr/] organized the (…)

16 April 2019
  2 min
Conférence “Education aux images : l'éducation populaire du XXIème Siècle ?” par Benoît Labourdette.
MJC Dole: “Image Education: Popular Education for the 21st Century?”

Lecture by Benoît Labourdette for proposals for philosophical and practical tools of thought on the challenges of digital and images. The aim is to collectively equip themselves to carry out popular education initiatives in the 21st Century in (…)

11 April 2019
  6 min
“The contribution of digital technology in cultural mediation”. Conference by Benoît Labourdette (french speaking).
Growing up with culture : “The contribution of digital technology in cultural mediation”

Conference by Benoît Labourdette about cultural mediation with digital tools, on the example of the travelling projections within the framework of the Port Zone Film Festival. June 13, 2018, Nantes (France).

13 June 2018
  3 min
Conference “For a new pedagogy of the image, between creation, self-construction and social connection”
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 du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018.Summary of the day on the (…)

26 April 2018
  4 min
Speech by Benoît Labourdette about the VR experience at La Fémis (audio - 15 minutes - New Images Festival - 2018)
Newimages Festival: “Education and immersive images” (round table)

Focus on a Virtual Reality experiment conducted at the Fémis by Benoît Labourdette. As part of a round table presentation of various experiences around immersion, moderated by Xavier Grizon. Program and participants

4 April 2018
  1 min
Communication de Benoît Labourdette
Symposium : Attention, machine! Artistic Practices and Media Recycling

Communication by Benoît Labourdette to listen (25 minutes) on the stage use of live contributions from unknown users. As part of the symposium “Attention, machine!”. February 7,2018. This symposium organised by the Litt&Arts UMR of the (…)

7 February 2018
  5 min
Quelles images dans la salle de cinéma ? (5'30s)
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 region), within the framework of their “Ciné Lab # 6”asked me to participate in the animation of a day of (…)

7 September 2017
  5 min
Conférence potentialités du numérique par Benoît Labourdette (1h48')
IPM PACA: “Creative potentialities and conquest of new audiences with digital”

Conference on the creative potential and the conquest of new audiences that digital allows, in the context of the launch of the call for projects “Identities Paths and Memory” (IPM) in the PACA Region. “Path and Memory Identities”Since 2002, (…)

27 June 2017
  3 min
Film “Plage de l'Espiguette” - bande son
University Montpellier 3 : “I did not know it, but I’m my camera”

Overview of my filmmaking efforts from 1997 to 2017, in relation to technological developments, and the making of a “mental” film.In the framework of a study day entitled “Self-narrative: Tool and features of the” I “on screen, organized by (…)

6 April 2017
  4 min
Film de Gérard Courant “Voix-off et cinéma”
OFF Film Festival : meeting about voice-over and collective film production

As part of the OFF Film Festival of autobiographical film in Olonne-sur-mer, on November 20, 2016, I suggested a thought and animated a moment of exchange on the theme of the voice-over. Then I proposed making a “mental collective film” to the (…)

20 November 2016
  4 min
Conférence “Nouveaux outils numériques et pédagogie de l'image” : 1. Introduction (2'34)
Pôle Image Franche Comté : “New digital tools and image pedagogy”

Conference by Benoît Labourdette in video on the theme “New digital tools and image pedagogy”. Duration: 1h. Pôle Image Franche Comté. March 2016, the 22th.The challenges of image education change deep enough due to the changes in uses and (…)

22 March 2016
  7 min
National Meeting of coordinators School and Cinema: “Image education 2.0”
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 Children of cinema, coordinator of the plan School and cinematographic organizes a national meeting (3 (…)

8 October 2015
  3 min
Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire : “The mutations of cinema”
Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire : “The mutations of cinema”

Anthropologies of cinematographic devices, by Jean-Louis Comolli, Benoît Labourdette and Vincent Sorrel.The Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire offer as part of their 27th one-day seminar, 20 August 2015: “The mutations of cinema”. (…)

20 August 2015
  3 min
Gaîté Lyrique : UAV images
Gaîté Lyrique : UAV images

Conference on artistic creation with drones. UAV ImagesConference-debate in the auditorium of the Gaite LyriqueThursday, July 9, 2015, at 19h.3a Rue Papin, 75003 Paris, France (free entry) DetailsAs part of the release of the latest (…)

9 July 2015
  2 min
Benoît Labourdette - 1. Filming with a mobile phone
MOOC Digital Media Paris : “Image and Mobility”

The MOOC of the city of Paris on digital media, with Benoît Labourdette.The City of Paris launched “MOOC Digital Media Paris”, of which I am one of the first responders, with Dominique Cardon and ORLAN.This MOOC is built by EPSAA (Higher (…)

25 April 2015
  2 min
The curved living room (3')
Swiss Foundation: “Are you connected?”- Evening / workshop Mobile Film Festival

The Swiss Foundation at the Cité Universitaire in Paris (France), proposes, run by students, regular screenings of films.February 12, 2015 meeting devoted to the decade of the Mobile Film Festival, that I presented with Patrizia De Lauretis, (…)

12 February 2015
  2 min
The men on camera
Wave Length Festival : “Drones listening” (masterclass and performance)

The drone as a tool for sound creation.The Wave Length Festival 12th Festival of the radio and listening (Brest - France), invited me as part of a partnership with INA to lead a masterclass / performance with a drone, which led to the creation (…)

30 January 2015
  2 min
Creativity and digital (collective film)
Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)

Roundtable / lectures on the issues of creation in the digital age.Rouen, 2 December 2014. I participated in the roundtable / lectures as an artist and cultural player. It is obvious, digital upset the issues of artistic creation, whether from (…)

2 December 2014
  4 min
“Drone-caméra, la deportation of gaze” conference (April, 16<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup>, 2014)
Paul Valéry University (Montpellier - France) : “Drone-camera, deportation of the gaze” (conference)

Filming with a drone singularly change the view of the world, and perhaps the film writing, in political and sensitive aspects.As part of the study day “Framing/deframing Editing/Disediting - The aesthetic challenges of connected audiovisual (…)

16 April 2014
  4 min
Unspoken objects (collective film)
Ramdam Festival: conference and realization of a collective film

The 4th edition of the Ramdam Festival (festival of the disturbing movies), that was held in Tournai Belgium in January 2014, invited me to deliver a lecture “Mobile phone is the future of cinema” , followed by the creation of a collective film (…)

26 January 2014
  1 min
Conference : “The mobile audiovisual creativity: challenges and opportunities” (36 minutes - french speaking)
Gaîté Lyrique : mobility and creation seminar

Benoît Labourdette’s conference (full video) : “The mobile audiovisual creativity: challenges and opportunities.” (36 minutes)Introduction of the conferenceAlmost everyone has a camera in his pocket at all times, into his mobile phone. (…)

28 November 2013
  2 min
Conference “Pedagogy of the image and digital” (french speaking)
Rencontres photographiques d’Arles : “Pedagogy of the digital image” (conference)

Podcast of the conference.

Development of practical and creative thinking in the pedagogy of images, with digital photography.July 8, 2013, invited by Jean-Yves Moirin and Francis Jolly in the Seminar of the Photographic Encounters, I proposed a conference on the (…)

8 July 2013
  4 min
Enregistrement audio de l'intervention de Benoît Labourdette
French Institute: “Training for new digital challenges”

Benoît Labourdette’s lecture on the benefits of cultural initiatives with pocket cameras.In May 2012, the Institut français proposed 3 days of training to its audiovisual associates and film correspondents around the world, on the subject of (…)

30 May 2012
  3 min
Part 1: Crossed histories of cinema and video games.
“Cinema and video games”: three lectures by Benoît Labourdette.

Within the framework of the university of the cinema of Ciclic.

These lectures examine the relationship between the worlds of film and video games. Parallel histories, crossings, reciprocal inspirations and hybridizations between cinema and video games, from Tron to machinimas through Elephant, Casino Royale (…)

31 March 2011
  2 min
Figra : “Digital writing and publishing”
Figra : “Digital writing and publishing”

Participation in a meeting on the issues of digital writing. Sharing of approaches and creations.TheFIGRA (International Festival of Great news report) invited me to a collaborative innovation moment on the theme of digital and interactive (…)

24 March 2011
  2 min
Enregistrement vidéo de la conférence “Qu'est-ce que le numérique ?”
9th Forum of the look: “What is digital ?: The stakes of the new screens”

Animation of a conference by Benoît Labourdette on the issues of the new screens, October 8, 2010.“What is digital ? : The stakes of new screens”: this is the theme of the 3 days of training offered by écla Aquitaine on 6, 7 and 8 October (…)

8 October 2010
  2 min
Conférence « Le téléphone portable est-il l'avenir du cinéma ? »
INA, iconic college : “Mobile phone is it the future of cinema?” (conference)

March 10, 2010, invited by Serge Tisseron, I made ​​a speech at iconic College INA, on the theme “The mobile phone is it the future of cinema?”.Text about the interventionThe phone is in almost any pocket at all times. Who forgets his (…)

10 March 2010
  2 min
Intervention de Benoît Labourdette
Moulin d’Andé-Ceci : day about “New broadcasters, new creations, new economy?”

Participation in a roundtable on innovation in dissemination approaches.The Moulin d’Andé, “Center of cultural meetings”, is a place of poetry, of creation, where artists come for a long time to revitalize and create. A little corner of (…)

18 January 2008
  2 min

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