Repressed artists

A collective movie (3’05s, 2021).

They all have strong desires, but they feel alone and abandoned.

“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 (...)

Theory of modern art

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’05s, 2019).

The functions and necessities of art, which is not a luxury, but life and our very nature. Quotes from Paul Klee.

“I try to make art, but in film. It has to be pure.”

Quote from Stan Brakhage (1933-2003).

Turned upside down

Collective film and installation coordinated by Benoît Labourdette (8’19s, 2019-2021).

Video installation based on a collective film made by the artists themselves to present their work. As part of Lil’Art 2019.With : Jolanta Anton, Brigitte Badier, Lorka Berger-Campagne, Michèle Coudert, Véronique De Lavau, Thierry Deléage, (...)

Movie announcement of “Lil’art” 2019

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’30s, 2019).

Lil’art is the annual event for the development and the meeting of the artists of the city of Lilas. Film announcement of the 2019 edition.In 2019, I led the making of a collective video creation by a group of artists, which was presented in (...)

Filming in connection

Participative exhibition.

Participative exhibition at the City Hall of the 11th district of Paris, to complete the project “Filming in connexion”. As part of the vast territory project “Connection” proposed by MPAA.On Saturday, September 25, 2021, as part of the (...)

John Dewey : an inspirer of cultural rights?

Sharing my interest in an inspiring personality.

The notion of “cultural rights” is increasingly present in the debates within the cultural sector. They are seen by many as being at the heart of the issues and processes of change in the field of culture. But they are controversial, their very (...)

Cinema is not the art of the image.

It is the art of time, of movement, of emotion, of rhythm, of life, of everything we want, of the image among others. It is to reduce it terribly to say that it is the art of the image.

Afnic Foundation: films presenting the 2019 winning projects

Nine films to present a selection of 2019 winners from the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity. AfnicAfnic is the Internet Registry of domain names in.fr. Its profits are donated to the Afnic Foundation, which supports projects that (...)

Flinty

My personal artistic creations are very intimate objects, which I share, but which I do not wish to make too much publicity.

Why not, but it’s still very intimate, so I think it’s good if it exists in an intimate way too.

“On the beach of my imagination” : video installation in the hospital

Immersive device: permanent video installation at the Jacques Monod Hospital in Flers (Normandy - 2022).

Accounts of the issues at work in an art for health project. Every morning, the big wall of the waiting room of the hospital in Flers lights up by itself. Video images of nature, calm and serene, are projected there all day long. It is a space (...)

At the beginning I don’t dare to draw, I don’t dare to make music, because I judge myself, I find that what I do is totally null compared to others who have more abilities.

Hergé drew badly, but he worked, he did things, and so there you have it, he has his style, because he had trouble. Stromae doesn’t know how to make music well, so he did his best, with his background. That’s it, don’t be a prisoner of codes. (...)

Creating art is not a profession, it is a passion.

You can do X or Y job and create on top of that, it’s 100% legitimate. Kafka was an insurance agent, etc. I realize this with the films I make for people: some of these films are great, of immense richness for me as a spectator, and yet it is (...)

“A work of art is the proposal of a world.”

Quote from Jean-Claude Collot (1947).

Art bleeds

My artistic creation, I am fully responsible for it, I don’t ask anyone’s permission.

Towards the cultural experience

Essay, by Emmanuel Vergès

In the construction of cultural proposals, focus attention on the lived and shared experience. Short essay on the philosophy of action and the function of art.Benoît Labourdette’s work, between By my window and street projections, makes me (...)

Haute Savoie Department: “Digital technology and artistic and cultural practices through a pedagogical approach”

How to raise awareness in a very short time and in an active way about the creative potential of digital technology? FrameworkTh eDSDEN of Haute Savoie (National Education) organised on 12 February 2019 a departmental training and (...)

ALCA and FRAC Aquitaine: Encountering audiences and a neighbourhood: co-constructing and experimenting an itinerant screening

Documentary on training, directed by Théo Rulin (3’18s, 2020).

Professional training through the concrete implementation of a cultural action rooted in the challenges of a territory, over two days (February 2020). Objectives To meet a changing neighbourhood and its inhabitants through an art education (...)

Nectart magazine: “Are digital platforms transforming our relationship to art?”

Article by Benoît Labourdette, published in the magazine Nectart issue 15 (June 2022).

Contrary to popular belief, digital platforms can be real crucibles of creativity and cultural diversity, given their very powerful springs and the fact that they encourage us to reinvent ourselves, to question the very notion of a work of art. (...)

“In art, not taking the traditional route is dangerous but taking them is fatal.” (Alexandre Gurita)

Whiteboards

Series of 20 photographs of paintings.

Are these twenty framed paintings in the tunnel of a train station under renovation “real paintings”? Or are they just the frames that make me see them as paintings worthy of my interest? Is there an artist’s intention or is it just my gaze, (...)

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 (...)