Gisèle Halimi Feminist Film Festival - Ville des Lilas: “Female gaze” workshop
Male gaze ? Female gaze? What is the difference? How do images place us in positions of domination or submission? In the lobby of the Garde-Chasse cinema, Benoît Labourdette installs a film studio that will allow you to create cinema scenes to experiment, in a playful, creative way and in all its nuances, what the point of view is.
In partnership with the Garde-Chasse team, I have imagined a new workshop concept, which will be tested on Saturday, October 16, 2021, as part of the 1st edition of the Gisèle Halimi Feminist Film Festival. This festival is proposed by the City of Les Lilas, which, with Madeline Da Silva, deputy mayor, has a strong policy in favor of equality and the fight against discrimination.
- A public filming studio to create with the visitors playful and educational sketches on the question of gender representations.
- Editing and live viewing of the films made.
- Diffusion of the filmed vignettes on the platform “La fabrique numérique aux Lilas” for re-use in the educational and personal framework (sharing on social networks in particular).
- Collection of testimonies.
- Selection of books and mini discussion room around the representations of the world transmitted by the images.
Accessible free of charge without registration from 1:30 pm to 8 pm, free participation time.
Workshop led by Benoît Labourdette, Lucie Jouvet, Alice Posiere, Enguerrand Le Cacheux. Design : Benoît Labourdette, with the collaboration of Noémie Rubat du Mérac. Set design: Alice Posiere and Lucie Jouvet. Lighting and technical: Arnaud Crouy and Ayman Zefzaf. Development of the project with the Direction de l’action culturelle de la Ville des Lilas, Isabelle Altounian, Anne Kintz and Gihane Besse.
Théâtre-cinéma du Garde-Chasse
181 bis rue de Paris or 2 avenue Waldeck-Rousseau
93260 Les Lilas, France Tel: 01 43 60 41 89. Access: Metro Mairie des Lilas.
A sanitary pass is still required by law for access to cultural venues.
The 12 films made
Available on the platform “La fabrique numérique aux Lilas.”
Barbie à la rescousse du boys club
Un film d’Alizée et Arthur (1’21s, muet, 2021).
Plein le sac
Un film d’Alice, Lucie, Enguerrand et Benoît (1’28s, muet, 2021).
Liberté, égalité, sororité, fraternité, solidarité et... éducation
Un film de Chloé (2’31s, muet, 2021).
Bras de fer
Un film d’Alice et Benoît (0’54s, muet, 2021).
Femme en situation de handicap
Un film de Nadine (1’05s, muet, 2021).
J’aime, j’aime pas
Un film de Jean-Louis (0’52s, muet, 2021).
Je ne vends que des objets
Un film de Doriane (2’51s, muet, 2021).
Pause café
Un film d’Alice (0’49s, muet, 2021).
Barbie Girl
Un film de Lucie et Alice (0’48s, muet, 2021).
Ben quoi, t’as peur ?
Un film de Lucie, Alice, Enguerrand et Benoît (0’59s, muet, 2021).
(un)match
Un film d’Alice et Benoît (0’46s, muet, 2021).
- Menu(s) propos (MPEG4)
- Barbie à la rescousse du boys club (MPEG4)
- Plein le sac (MPEG4)
- Liberté, égalité, sororité, fraternité, solidarité et... éducation (MPEG4)
- Bras de fer (MPEG4)
- Femme en situation de handicap (MPEG4)
- J’aime, j’aime pas (MPEG4)
- Je ne vends que des objets (MPEG4)
- Pause café (MPEG4)
- Barbie Girl (MPEG4)
- Ben quoi, t’as peur ? (MPEG4)
- (un)match (MPEG4)
The practice of feminism seems to me to be an essential stake in the cultural actions, because the awareness of the systems of domination allows to go towards more equality, therefore to contribute to the democracy. The inequality between women and men is for me a cornerstone of the dominations that harm everyone.
But how to “put feminism into practice” concretely in public proposals? How can cultural actions, whatever their field of implementation (artistic, social, educational, professional...), arouse inner movements towards more respect of human rights? It is not a question of stating a normative feminist discourse, but of putting into practice an equality in the ways of acting. This is much more delicate and delicate to do than one might think, because it involves questioning one’s own unconscious functioning.
I share here some resources, partial, from my own pathways, practices and questionings: proposals and stories of cultural actions, working methods, methods of artistic creation and more conceptual or biographical reflections.
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Domination on Display: An Ethnological Analysis of the 51st César Ceremony
Eight years after Blanche Gardin, six years after Adèle Haenel, nothing has changed. The system has even strengthened itself.
The César ceremony is a ritual. Not an artistic ritual, but a social one, whose analysis reveals the mechanisms of domination at work in the (…) -
Patriarchal feminism
When emancipation can reproduce patterns of domination.
Surprisingly, certain forms of struggle against patriarchy can unintentionally reinforce the very structures they seek to combat, particularly (…) -
On systems of domination in the film industry
The reasons for the violence are not what you might think.
The film industry is built on deeply entrenched systems of domination. These hierarchical mechanisms legitimize violence, including sexist (…) -
Workshop immersive techniques for creating an exhibition
An account of a method for constructing a point of view and an exhibition.
Students in the Master 2 Audiovisual and Digital Media (AVMN) program at Grenoble University were asked to organize an exhibition on the theme of (…) -
A definition of feminism
A thought movement in dialogues.
Here is my definition of feminism, from my place as a man: it is for me a movement of thought and action for equal rights between women and men, (…) -
Podcast: “For a democratic and feminist pedagogy”
Dialogue between Noémie Rubat du Mérac and Benoît Labourdette on June 25, 2022.
Overview of the fundamentals of the pedagogical actions conceived and carried out by Benoît Labourdette, linked to the deconstruction of systems (…) -
Collective film shot in a movie theater
Creative participation method.
Giving a voice in a creative way to the spectators of a movie theater, before the screening of a film.I put this proposal into practice in the (…) -
Equality is not won!
A collective film (3’12s, 2022).
An intergenerational film to become more aware, and more equipped, to defend equality. -
Fragments of lives
A collective movie (3’20s, 2022).
By sharing all our views, even the most intimate ones, we become stronger! -
Putting yourself in the other person’s shoes
A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2021).
Collective empathy exercise. -
Women’s voices
Immersive digital device, designed by Manon Gady and Maïa Hoog.
Immersion in feminist demonstrations, in the word of women.Device conceived and realized by Manon Gady and Maïa Hoog, students of the class of (…) -
Writing workshop in inclusive language
Literary game.
Literary writing game in inclusive language, which can be offered even for a few minutes, in all types of settings and for all ages.Inclusive (…) -
Feminist Contemplation
Participatory art installation.
Words projected on the walls transform a simple place into a space that invites an intimate thought of feminism.Installation realized in (…) -
The feminine neutral
Speaking method.
Count the number of people present, and if there is a majority of women, suggest the game of using the “feminine neuter”: “all of us” instead of (…) -
In front of our eyes
Collective film (3’10s, 2021).
Behind every object, the patriarchyIt is a chain, a sequence shot: each person films an object and gives it life, through the voice, putting (…) -
Gisèle Halimi Feminist Film Festival - Ville des Lilas: “Female gaze” workshop
Film creation workshop, to decode the images.
Male gaze ? Female gaze? What is the difference? How do images place us in positions of domination or submission? In the lobby of the Garde-Chasse (…) -
What kind of world do we want?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’54s, muet, 2020).
Bibliography in 2020 for the emancipation of women and men. -
Audiovisual workshops to combat gender stereotypes
Methods for audiovisual creativity.
Thought-provoking ideas and proposals for audiovisual workshop concepts for nuanced and useful actions, with the aim of building critical thinking (…) -
Sexuality #01
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2020).
Sexuality, that intimate space that we experience as natural and spontaneous, is in fact largely constructed by our culture. For more sexual (…) -
Domination
Un film de Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, muet, 2017).
Rebattre les cartes des systèmes de domination.
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Audiovisual workshops to combat gender stereotypes
Methods for audiovisual creativity.
Thought-provoking ideas and proposals for audiovisual workshop concepts for nuanced and useful actions, with the aim of building critical thinking (…) -
Trailer of the 2021 Women’s International Film Festival
A film by Benoît Labourdette (25s & 8s, 2021).
An all online festival... forty films by women directors from all over the world... a new way of doing... 43rd edition of the International (…) -
Work or mastery ? Methodology of the productive action.
How do we achieve the best possible result in the work, in the construction? In my opinion, contrary to popular belief, it is not the search for (…) -
Filme Tout Court: Account of a First Collective Experience in Villetaneuse When expert guidance creates the conditions for a successful cultural experience.
Invited as a jury member for a smartphone short film competition in Villetaneuse, I discovered how technical mishaps and collective adjustments (…) -
Mashup Film Festival - Making animation movies (Forum des images, France) Cartoon Pocket Films workshops
In the “Mashup Film Festival” at the Forum des Images (Paris, France), 15 and 16 June 2013, I was invited to propose a workshop for making (…)
