The books I published and the collective books I participated in. To the extent possible, these books can be downloaded here in PDF format.
Free book by Benoît Labourdette (PDF, 520 pages, 2025). BIP Éditions.
Download the book for freeThis book, based on my regular posts on my website, is addressed to those who work daily in the French cultural sector and who, faced with the profound transformations underway, are questioning the paths to its (…)
Guide to screenwriting (free digital book, by Benoît Labourdette).
In our world where artificial intelligences directly create films from the desires of their authors expressed in very few words, in this world where 3.5-hour films in dark theaters coexist with 10-second videos on social media—both of which (…)
Contes philosophiques du quotidien (livre téléchargeable gratuitement).
Images écrites du monde qui évoquent et construisent des pensées philosophiques, glanées au fil des rencontres et des chocs dont la vie est tissée. Écriture dans le réel de la confrontation. Confiance. Comme de courts contes philosophiques. (…)
Collective book under the direction of Pierre Brini and Emmanuel Vergès. Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2021.
Findings, analyses and proposals to make cultural policies evolve towards the redefinition of their meaning in the contemporary world, towards more democracyI wrote one of the chapters of this book, “Image 2.0 - Become an author-producer”, (…)
Collection of poems (free download).
Musical inspiration and graphic matter. It is the matter of a sound associated with the matter of the handwriting which give birth to the text. The sound is no longer there, it is behind the existence of the line. A song. They are like small (…)
Essay (free download).
A selection, a collection of notes by Benoît Labourdette on the creation of moving images and on creation in general, gleaned over the course of his work since 1992. As many pearls to think the artistic work and the so singular work of the moving (…)
Under the direction of Laurence Allard, Laurent Creton and Roger Odin.
Publication by Benoît Labourdette of the article « The UAV, a creative tool » in the collective book “Theorem 29:”Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic issues".http://psn.univ-paris3.fr/ouvrage/29-mobiles-enjeux-artistiques-et-esthetiquesThis (…)
Practical guide (free download).
“Image education 2.0” (under the direction of Benoît Labourdette), practical book of image education in the digital age, published by ACAP. Free download.Download the entire book (french).In line with the work of Jacques Rancière (“The (…)
Collective book to which I contributed, with the article “From economy to the conversation and audiovisual creation”. Publication Date : 19 February 2014 published by Armand Colin Link to the official website of the conference that gave birth to (…)
Testimonials (free download).
Bilan-outlook-thoughts on a creative project with mobile phones led in Marseille.Book co-written by Benoît Labourdette and Claire Duport.Download the complete book.
The first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a reference. Free download.Download the complete book.I wrote this book to make it a concrete guide, technical as of shooting and directing. (…)
Master’s thesis (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III - 1995)
My master’s thesis, written at the age of 25, about the audio post-production of my first feature film « Head in the water ». Direction : Pierre SorlinWriting about my creative practice is part of my creative work, as I implement it in my « (…)