Fly away

There are people who think what I do is great. I have to rely on those people.

Save your soul

What is a “good frame” for pedagogy?

In the field of education, there is a consensus that a “frame” is essential for the effective functioning of the educational strategy, and therefore for the development of the individual. But what exactly is a “frame”? And what are the ways to build (...)

It’s amazing how things done in the moment take on their value, their full dimension, long after.

At the time we don’t realize it. I’m going to invest that: to realize, in the present, what’s at stake.

The country where we lie

Hypnosis

Backseat

Laid

M.C.E.

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’02s, 2019).

Everyone’s utopia is perhaps a drawing centred on trust.

Professional meeting “Public participation”: presentation by Benoît Labourdette

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Jean-Yves de Lépinay (11’37s, 2020).

Sharing examples of audiovisual creation workshops conducted in the spirit of cultural rights: moving from “participation” to “interaction.”This trust we choose to put in others is a risk we take, it changes us. We take the risk of being able to (...)

Flute

Chamarande

Series of photographs taken at the Domain of Chamarande (Essonne, France) on January 1, 2021.

A year standing.The sun in the trees, illuminating the earth, water and nature of which we are a part, on this first day of a new year, fills me with wonder and brings me these wishes, inspired by the words of my friends. I recite them to (...)

What makes a creative project good is the listening that takes place between people, the special relationship that is established in the group, the trust, the benevolence, the belief in the other. I know how to do that.

L., on the other hand, is in much more trouble, using the legitimacy of her manager to squeeze people like lemons, using everyone’s ego.

Focus

Relive

If things come, in a natural way, if creation “flows” from me, with speed, I must not hold it back, I must let it flow, I must trust, I must not judge anything, I must simply feel the rightness of it all, and I must welcome, with joy, this gift that is given to me.

And if it doesn’t come anymore, I don’t force anything. I let it rest. But when it comes, I must not block anything.

Hero

In the same room

When the storm subsides

Doctors

Good girls

I learned that

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’22s, 2019).

How life, even in its most painful moments, can show us the way to love.

It was good, yesterday, to feel that the students preferred that I play my films rather than another programming. The pleasure of discovering a universe.

Fragments of lives

A collective movie (3’20s, 2022).

By sharing all our views, even the most intimate ones, we become stronger!

Everyone is talented, I realize that all the time when I get people to do things.

What makes the difference between being talented and doing creative work is the fact of going to the end of things, producing, sharing.

“Territorial approach, participation, youth and digital technology”: interview of Benoît Labourdette by Serge Saada (52’, 2021)

Observatory of cultural mediation in the social field.

As part of the Observatory of cultural mediation in the social field, Serge Saada interviewed Benoît Labourdette on the impact of the proliferation of digital images on young people and the public in general. Here is the soundtrack of the video. (...)

Not to limit myself, at all, and to trust my techniques, especially the voice-over to give meaning, like Roger Corman did, who always kept his absolute independence, just like me.

I have to trust my images, that’s what I do best.

They don’t necessarily need texts, etc., they are actually very strong in themselves. That’s really important, and that L. told me. Because it’s true, and you have to recognize the strength that you have, and not reduce it to something (...)