Creation

Film by Benoît Labourdette (8’34s, 2016).

Documentary on the painting exhibition “The wire” by Benoît Labourdette, Paris, October 2016.

14 November 2016

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’19s, 2018).

“I am absolutely convinced that anyone, without any special knowledge or skills, without having to look at I don’t know what so-called native dispositions, can devote themselves to art with every chance of success.” Jean (...)

15 December 2018

Inside time

Film by Benoît Labourdette (3’34 s, 2016).

Reading of the last paragraphs of “’Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust. Links between literature, painting and movement.

12 November 2016

Take sound into account when writing scripts

’A scenario that gives, on reading, the sensation of the soundtrack of the film, will have a rare, extremely convincing evocative power. Physiological thinking of the scenario A film is, physiologically, an object that addresses only two of our (...)

7 March 2019

3 min

By my window: Film what you see through a window in your home, and tell about an important memory.

Video platform

On 1 April 2020, during the period of confinement in France, I opened the video contribution platform www.parmafenetre.fr.. Following the numerous feedbacks I received, creating these films, as much as watching them, did a lot of good to those (...)

1 April 2020

7 min

Télérama: “Short film competitions all over France: containment inspires budding filmmakers”

Newspaper article.

At the beginning of April 2020, Télérama offers a summary of initiatives for calls for audiovisual creation during the period of general containment due to the Covid-19 virus. The project “Par ma fenêtre” initiated by Benoît Labourdette is one of (...)

12 April 2020

3 min

Creation is more and more at the center of my life, it’s great, it’s the life I’ve always wanted to have, to keep cultivating.

4 February 2021

1 min

Making space, cleaning, tidying, emptying... these are the actions that produce the favorable context in which works of art can be born, in which creation can emerge in a fully natural way.

As a result, the moments when I create can seem very short, and it destabilizes me that it is so fast, I have the impression that I am doing anything. But in fact not at all, I do what the space that I have patiently built, the conditions that I (...)

19 August 2017

1 min

Creation is like life, it is now, right now. It is not something that we will do tomorrow, that we prepare, it is an action, concrete. There is a thought, but it is deep, rich and alive because it is inscribed in the action.

14 August 2017

1 min

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. There (...)

19 May 2018

1 min

We create in our own way.

We do what is easy for us to do.

8 July 2018

1 min

I have an extremely singular way of making cinema, by shooting things only when I feel them, by preparing myself, etc. I feel legitimate, even if I remain in the margins. I feel legitimate, even if I remain in the margins. I know the value of preparing myself to improvise.

3 September 2014

1 min

I have always followed my path, next to the social space of “official” artists.

This is my path, I have never stopped creating, even if I have been invested as an artist in the social space more rarely than others. That is not what is important. What is important is that I create, that I “accomplish my mission”, that what I (...)

15 July 2014

1 min

My life is the work of creation, it is my axis.

Around this axis, many things happen, there is work to earn a living, there are love relationships, there are friendships. But my axis is creation. It is what is stable, what I always continue to (...)

16 February 2016

1 min

The fact that C. is a fan of my films can only confirm me in the idea that I must continue to invest in the field of creation.

10 May 2020

1 min

No matter how old you are, you can be very productive, or not.

I am quite productive. Richard Texier is much more productive. He produces a lot, that’s what he does. It’s a real “training”, it’s like doing sports, except that it’s doing creation.

9 August 2017

1 min

Work in places that are important to you.

In the film “A wild honest man”, by Maria Pinto, Jean-Jacques Pauvert says at one point that Sade knew, at one point in his life, that what he was doing was very important. I know that what I do is important, well, I know that it is something, (...)

26 January 2014

1 min

Richard Texier at work

A film by Benoît Labourdette (9’54s, 2014).

A mystery of the act of painting, unveiled with Richard Texier.

7 October 2014

Flinty

17 September 2021

Tell me LED

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2016, 1h06’).

Film made of permanent layering of images and sounds, as in writing a chorus of self-creation through artistic expression. Choral work as part of a creative residency at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil in (...)

9 January 2016

Test your scenarios with your mobile phone

A very simple use of the mobile phone can speed up the scriptwriting work. In many fields prototypes are made, which can also be called drafts, diagrams, wireframes, mockups... The prototype makes it possible to partially simulate the (...)

4 March 2019

3 min

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.

26 June 2019

1 min

Notes on moving picture

Essay

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

The singularity, a collaborative transmedia artistic project

“The singularity” is a collaborative transmedia project, launched in 2016 by Benoît Labourdette. Around a thematic spine, over a long period of time (several years), film creations, theatrical forms, exhibitions, creative workshops in various (...)

31 December 2017

2 min

Luminous ritual

Collaborative film (3’04s, 2019).

Kinetic art experiments: drawings, cameras, projectors, human bodies, cameras, musical creations, and especially play and joy.

14 September 2019

And, really, no longer forbid me any medium, any form of art.

17 April 2016

1 min

Documentary Film meetings 2015 : “Tell me LED” ongoing creation

Public presentation of the film’s creative process “Tell me LED” (Benoît Labourdette, 2015, 65 minutes), Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 16h. The Méliès Cinema (12 Place Jean Jaurès - 93100 Montreuil - France). Free entry. The Documentary Film meetings (...)

14 October 2015

Benoît Labourdette’s workshop : make a movie all together

I’ve always thought that to speak of a “material” needed to know, that is the work itself. This conference talking about mobile and creation, so it seemed obvious to me that he must contain a time workshop, creative proposal. So I, after referring (...)

20 June 2012

1 min

The Digital Washhouse : 8×8 Season 0 Episode 1

Video interview between Franck Ancel and Benoît Labourdette on the stakes of images and digital, as part of the prefiguration of the Digital Washhouse.

25 March 2018

2 min

To create is to do what others dare not do.

9 April 2019

1 min

X. said the other day that he thought I was doing a lot with very little.

It’s true, it’s my way, it’s my vision, it’s my uniqueness, and it’s what I can.

9 November 2017

1 min

Lilas News: “When everyday devices become creative tools!”

Newspaper article.

The municipal newspaper “Lilas News” announces the digital audiovisual creation workshops, as part of the project “The Digital Factory”, proposed by Benoît Labourdette..

18 October 2019

2 min

Movie Marathon Evry 2013 - Films made

List of films made at the Movie Marathon Evry 2013 (France) Hush (Louisa Gaillard) The dream of Lyndi (Boulay Leander) 3’14 Fear (MOHAMMAD Usman) 3’34 Super condom (Faleme Dimitri) - 1’22 (without generic) M.D.R (Pavlovsky Cassandra) 3’11 (...)

25 May 2013

2 min

It is not because people, even those close to me, do not understand the creation that I make, that it does not make sense to continue it in my direction.

If I am in contact with my inner movements, listening to what is going on deep inside me, that is what I hold on to. I realize this with I., who did not understand well the poems that I wrote and that I sometimes sent her, and who now receives (...)

20 September 2021

1 min

Poitou-Charentes Region : “Pocket Films Training” for teachers

Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou Charentes region, proposed as part of “Lycéens in cinemas”, that one of the features of the program be replaced by a program of short films shot with mobile phone from the festival Takavoir, and students benefit (...)

12 January 2015

1 min

It’s creation that helps to support the sufferings of love, it’s creation that allows to sublimate things, it’s creation that gives sense to his life, in fact.

Love is a lure. The meeting is real. The sharing of the present is real. But love does not exist.

25 September 2013

1 min

Image Forum: conference “When digital creation enhances self-esteem”.

Active conference to equip social actors with digital skills to work on self-esteem with adolescents. Exchange of experiences and practices, and proposal of a lived experience. The [Image Forum-https://www.forumdesimages.fr/] organized the (...)

16 April 2019

2 min

Short bio & filmo

Benoît Labourdette is a filmmaker, educator, expert in new media, cultural innovation and entrepreneur. He was born in 1970. He founded, among others, the Court Bouillon screenings (1988-1997), the video production centre of the University of (...)

8 May 2020

4 min

Tutorials for making sequence-shot films

Podcast by Benoît Labourdette (17’30s, 2020).

Complete pedagogical method for making three types of films in sequence shot: collective film, animated film, memory at the window. During the confinement period in March-April 2020, EPT Est Ensemble and the Seine Saint Denis Department, in (...)

31 March 2020

2 min

Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)

Roundtable / lectures on the issues of creation in the digital age. Rouen, 2 December 2014. I participated in the roundtable / lectures as an artist and cultural player. It is obvious, digital upset the issues of artistic creation, whether from (...)

2 December 2014

4 min

I often like the more spontaneous things much more than the prepared ones.

For example, the album “Sheller en solitaire”, where he is alone at the piano singing, is much better than the same songs recorded in studio, with all the orchestrations, which must have required infinitely more production (...)

12 June 2020

1 min

The fact that one goes quickly to create something, and that afterwards it remains... the fact that all the elaboration around, before and after, was much longer than the moment of creation itself... it is completely normal.

21 October 2013

1 min

J., this morning, tells me that it is new for her, that there is creation everywhere in my home.

It’s true, my life is that, it’s creation, and I will never deviate from that again. Always creating, producing, sharing, at all times. It encourages me to know myself better, to know that my life is this, creation, every day, like a (...)

16 August 2018

1 min

Call for air Arras

Benoît Labourdette’s movies in a travelling projection program in Arras (France). In the context of the manifestation of contemporary art “Call for air” in Arras, I proposed a travelling screening of a selection of my films. Projections on walls, (...)

20 March 2016

2 min

I realize in my work that since 2013, namely since the separation from C., I am infinitely more creative than before.

It’s night and day, without measure. Because I am in my life, and I have full right to it.

13 August 2018

1 min

My voice is fully part of my creative process.

It is not a question of rejecting it, because it is a strong point, but of really working on it, as a subject.

14 January 2014

1 min

I absolutely have to create.

It is my life, and it is what gives me balance. This question of how to be in balance: for me, it is in creation, in the invention and discovery of forms.

13 November 2015

1 min

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

Dialogue on creation in virtual reality with Benoît Labourdette (filmmaker and producer, BL Prod) and Teddy Aymard (producer, Le bureau des curiosités), with a moment of practice so that the gesture nourishes the thought. International colloquium (...)

18 April 2019

8 min

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 (...)

1 May 2019

1 min

Just because I do something quickly doesn’t mean it’s worthless.

On the contrary. Cf. Picasso. Cf. calligraphy. So don’t be ashamed at all to have made an album in half an hour on the train.

12 May 2021

1 min

Creation comes from emptiness.

I need to make emptiness in my life, to have real empty moments, in hollow, so that creation can be born. It comes from emptiness, always.

23 August 2020

1 min

It is very important, and very legitimate, on my part, to create. And to devote time to it.

30 June 2014

1 min

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 not (...)

15 April 2021

2 min

Have respect for my work.

7 August 2013

1 min

I’m the one who authorizes myself to create and distribute, I don’t ask anyone, I take the risk.

12 December 2020

1 min

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 (...)

25 September 2021

1 min

The beginning

5 September 2021

The creation of the film “Tell me LED”: conversation with Axel Meunier

Interview with Benoît Labourdette by Axel Meunier on the film’s creative process "Tell me LED’. Axel Meunier interviewed me about the inspiration for my film being created “Tell me LED”. This 40-minute interview, titled “Conversation#39 - (...)

27 September 2015

1 min

To create I need to be alone and free, fully.

13 August 2018

1 min

Risk everything.

Create, do it concretely, without waiting for I don’t know what. Life is too fragile, too precious.

21 November 2015

1 min

I have no sponsor, no order for my creations.

As a result, I don’t feel legitimate, for example in relation to L., who has “official” commissions from theaters. In fact, what I put into practice is a total freedom of creation, I am the one who seeks the meaning of my creation. And it is fully (...)

10 December 2013

1 min

The fact that I work quickly, that things are placed very quickly in space and time, is not a sign that something is wrong in terms of the “quality” of my work. It’s that I’m bringing together a lot of things, deep things, that have been there for a long time.

8 August 2015

1 min

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.

27 March 2016

1 min

I don’t restrict my creation because things seem easy to me.

If they look easy to me, it’s because I’m good at making them. So I’m going for it, not hesitating, at all!

28 December 2017

1 min

Love this time that creation takes. It is an essential time, for life.

28 June 2021

1 min

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.

24 May 2021

1 min

Creation is part of my daily life, as well as reading and publishing on my website.

It’s part of my breathing, which gives life to all things, including administrative things. In fact, more than giving life, creation gives meaning, so if there is meaning, that is to say code, the code generates (...)

22 June 2020

1 min

Work in progress

Collective film (4’39s, 2019).

Where an observer enters the heart of the collaborative creation system.

14 September 2019

France Culture french channel : Radio show “E-artist” (L’Atelier de Création)

In early 2013, Maylis Besserie, producer at France Culture radio french channel, asked me as she prepared a program about creation with smartphones. So I asked her to come for a day of training in pedagogy with mobile phone, at the Art school (...)

26 March 2013

1 min

Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire : “The mutations of cinema”

Anthropologies of cinematographic devices, by Jean-Louis Comolli, Benoît Labourdette and Vincent Sorrel. The Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire offer as part of their 27th one-day seminar, 20 August 2015: “The mutations of cinema”. Introductory (...)

20 August 2015

3 min

My workshop, it is in movement, it is my working space, it should not be frozen.

It is extremely important. I photograph all the works there, I keep track of what happened there, but I don’t leave things there, I leave that space empty, fallow, free. I don’t have anything to prove, nor to show to someone who would pass by. I (...)

13 July 2017

1 min

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.

16 December 2018

1 min

Premiere of the film “Tell me LED” - January 8, 2016 - Montreuil

Premiere of the film “Tell me LED” (France, 2016, 65 minutes), Friday, January 8, 2016 at 20:30. Cinéma Le Méliès, 12 Place Jean Jaurès - 93100 Montreuil - France. “Mairie de Montreuil” metro station. Free admission by reservation : reservation (...)

3 November 2015

2 min

Do not make a big deal out of the act of creation.

This act, it is essential to my life, and it is my job. So, living it, in the everyday, in the work of production, and in the work of making it public. I am not too young for this as I have long believed. I can be sure of myself, of my gesture, (...)

9 October 2013

1 min

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.

12 March 2019

ESAV Toulouse : Pocket Films Workshop

Twenty-six films made in three days. Since 2006, barely a year after the appearance of cameras in mobile phones, I teach at the School of Cinema ESAV Toulouse for students in their final year of implementation, offering a “Pocket Films (...)

21 November 2014

2 min

OFF Film Festival : meeting about voice-over and collective film production

As part of the OFF Film Festival of autobiographical film in Olonne-sur-mer, on November 20, 2016, I suggested a thought and animated a moment of exchange on the theme of the voice-over. Then I proposed making a “mental collective film” to the (...)

20 November 2016

2 min

Lightnings Journal : “Get naked” (interview with Benoît Labourdette)

Interview with Benoît Labourdette about self-portrait, in “Lightnings”, the Digital Magazine of Écla (avril 2016). Link to the article on the website of the lightnings Journal : http://eclairs.aquitaine.fr/se-mett... “Get naked” (interview with (...)

17 April 2016

5 min

Piano

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2015).

A frustrated desire since childhood, who finally seems to open.

24 November 2015

DIA LOG: immersive creation shared with the children of a district of Choisy-le-Roi, “The Navigators”

Immersive video installation at Mac Val Museum (Vitry-sur-Seine) and in the Navigators district (Choisy-le-Roi) on September 21 and 22, 2019. Participative artistic action with the children that accompanies the changes in the The Navigators (...)

2 September 2019

3 min

House of the image, Appointments of the image #6: “Intimacy, images, social networks. Existing and living together in the digital age”

Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018. Summary of the day on the website (...)

26 April 2018

3 min

Bibliothèque Carré d’Art (Nîmes): Meeting a poet / a filmmaker. Cédric Le Penven and Benoît Labourdette

Reading-projection and participative cinematographic creation.

A poet and a filmmaker for a crossing around the figure of the window, or rather the discovery of oneself through its projection on the world. Reading, projection, collective creation Lecture-screening We embedded the readings and the film (...)

27 November 2021

3 min

Tutorials for doing video activities with your children

Podcast by Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2020).

Very simple tutorial (1 minute 30) to conduct two creative audiovisual activities with your children. During the confinement period in March-April 2020, the city of Lilas, as part of the project “The Digital Factory”, whose implementation I am (...)

15 April 2020

1 min

Creation is the essence of my life, it is what infuses every moment of my life.

19 November 2017

1 min

MPAA: Films for the 10^th anniversary of the House of Amateur Artistic Practices

Five films to affirm the identity of a Parisian cultural institution, MPAA (House of Amateur Artistic Practices). House of Amateur Artistic Practices (MPAA) Places for musical, theatrical and artistic rehearsals in the broad sense of the term, (...)

28 September 2018

3 min

There is always room for new creations, for innovation.

17 May 2021

1 min

Creation is free.

She does it when she decides, at night, during the day, anywhere! And she does as she wants, she does not respect any rule, that is her main quality, openness.

23 June 2020

1 min

When I started to really get back into creating with intensity in 2013, it was the separation from C. that reopened the doors for me.

21 September 2021

1 min

The fact that I create a lot of things, it’s not a problem at all, it doesn’t take away the quality of each thing.

I realize this by listening to Max Richter: he does what he feels, he does it a lot, and it’s very good. It’s an abundant work, in which you can circulate, it’s great. He assumes his power of (...)

26 September 2021

1 min

Creation is quite linked to diffusion.

The fact that I put things on my website, it invites me to create in such and such a way. But it is also because I wanted to create in such and such a way that I put films on my website. There is an exchange between the (...)

16 September 2019

1 min

No longer put any limits on my creation.

3 December 2015

1 min

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

12 min

Mobile Creation Symposium

My work as an exploration of creative possibilities of mobile crossed the passion of three researchers (and long-time colleagues) : Laurent Creton (economist), Laurence Allard (sociologist) and Roger Odin (semiotics), who asked me to jointly (...)

Musical Creations

Musical creations, often improvised, usually made with an analog synthesizer, in public or private. For improvisations, the general principle is to play a single instrument, to create the whole sound live. No pre-existing rhythm on which to (...)

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