Resources | Benoît Labourdette

Philosophical proposals

To “be” in the world is to think oneself and the world. Thus, everyone, without even formulating it explicitly, has a philosophical vision of the world: religious or atheist, technophile or technophobe, hedonist or abstainer, with all the (...)

Notes on moving image

Book to consult or download for free.A selection, a collection of notes by Benoît Labourdette on the creation of moving images and on creation in general, gleaned over a period of 30 years, between 1992 and 2022. As many proposals to think (...)

“The Long Tail”: Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age

Cultural policies and digital revolution

Cultural policy" is a tradition of the French state since the Middle Ages. It was initiated by Louis XIV in the 17th century as a tool of influence and power. And it was defined in its current terms by André Malraux in 1959, with the State’s (...)

Pedagogy

Here you will find educational tools, practical and conceptual. These tools are based on the experiences and thinking that I have been developing in a large number of contexts since the 1990s. I have developed a singular, operative pedagogical (...)

“Artistic creation and digital heritage”: conference by Benoît Labourdette

The digital heritage

In the XXIst Century, most of the human productions are made with digital tools and circulate in digital form: written, photo, sound, video, multimedia...What is heritage? It is the access to human productions of the past and present (...)

Methods of cooperation and project management

Sharing methodologies for project management: brainstorming, collaboration, co-construction, collective intelligence...I rely on my experience in organizing cultural events and coaching teams in innovative work methods, to share approaches, (...)

Audiovisual cultural animation tools

You will find here methodologies that can be used directly to run cultural, creative, digital and audiovisual workshops.

Putting feminism into practice in cultural action

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 (...)

Books

The books I published and the collective books I participated in. To the extent possible, these books can be downloaded here in PDF format.

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

Conferences

Video and audio recordings, documents, abstracts, of conferences that I run in different contexts.

Technical tools and methodologies

I share here tools and technical methodologies that I have built for my professional activity. Some articles presuppose technical knowledge.

Mediathemes magazine: “Technologies and contemporary uses of moving images”

Articles

Articles and studies that I have written for magazines and newspapers, downloadable in PDF.

Screenwriting

Tools and techniques of screenwriting and film project building.

Les droguistes : “Labourdette, working time”

Press reviews

Some excerpts from what is being said about my work, as well as interviews, broadcasts and articles in their entirety.

Basis of digital cinema and digital video

To take full ownership of digital as a tool for audiovisual production, as a language for self-expression, it is necessary, in my point of view, to considered it in the concrete of its materiality, to no longer represent it as an abstraction, (...)

Web-documentary

The “web-documentary” is a kind of interactive audiovisual object, named in 2008. In summary, to be a little harsh, it’s just a CDROM available online on the Internet... Lift the veil of technology, content and strategies, synthetically, to (...)