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Notes on moving picture
Notes on moving picture
Creating, thinking and writing screenplays today
Creating, thinking and writing screenplays today
Book : “Mobile phone and creation”
Book : “Mobile phone and creation”
“Studying your own film: learning and issues”
“Studying your own film: learning and issues”
Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”
Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”
Calligrams
Calligrams
Book: “Image education 2.0”
Book: “Image education 2.0”
Fragments-images
Fragments-images
Theorem 29: “Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic issues”
Theorem 29: “Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic issues”
To make culture - From fathers to peers
To make culture - From fathers to peers
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The books I published and the collective books I participated in. To the extent possible, these books can be downloaded here in PDF format.

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Defending culture differently: methods for tomorrow
Defending culture differently: methods for tomorrow

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 (…)

19 December 2025
  3 min
Creating, thinking and writing screenplays today
Creating, thinking and writing screenplays today

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 (…)

17 March 2025
  3 min
Fragments-images
Fragments-images

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. (…)

13 mars 2024
  1 min
To make culture - From fathers to peers
To make culture - From fathers to peers

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”, (…)

11 December 2021
  5 min
Calligrams
Calligrams

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 (…)

21 August 2021
  1 min
Notes on moving picture
Notes on moving picture

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 (…)

18 August 2021
  1 min
Theorem 29: “Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic issues”
Theorem 29: “Mobiles: artistic and aesthetic issues”

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 (…)

15 April 2018
  2 min
Book: “Image education 2.0”
Book: “Image education 2.0”

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 (…)

13 October 2015
  3 min
Book : “Mobile phone and creation”
Book : “Mobile phone and creation”

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 (…)

3 February 2014
  11 min
Little Book #2: “Films in the pocket” (Zinc - Friche La Belle de Mai - Marseille / France)
Little Book #2: “Films in the pocket” (Zinc - Friche La Belle de Mai - Marseille / France)

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.

20 June 2010
  1 min
Presentation of the book by Benoît Labourdette
Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

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. (…)

31 July 2008
  5 min
“Studying your own film: learning and issues”
“Studying your own film: learning and issues”

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 « (…)

31 August 1995
  2 min

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