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 (...)

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 work.

National Higher School of Architecture Paris-Belleville: drawn cinema workshop designed for the 50^th anniversary

Proposal open to the public to make animated films to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Higher School of Architecture Paris-Belleville. Analysis, strategy and implementationHow, in an evening when a thousand people are invited, (...)

“Creative digital practices and critical thinking training”: conference by Benoît Labourdette

Atelier Canopé 86 - Poitiers. Study and training day “EAC at the service of the development of critical thinking”.

Participative conference to illustrate how the training of critical thinking can effectively pass by the means of artistic creation. To inaugurate the study and training day “EAC in the service of the development of critical thinking”, for (...)

Numok Festival: “Let’s create 360°” workshop (libraries of the City of Paris)

Workshops for the production of films in Virtual Reality in three libraries of the City of Paris: Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de Ville, Bibliothèque Arthur Rimbaud.As part o fNumok, the digital (...)

I feel I am still limiting myself too much.

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 (...)

Mashup Film Festival - Making animation movies (Forum des images, France)

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 animated films with handheld cameras, in one shot, cut out of paper. The festival, now in its third (...)

CEFPF : Formation “Concevoir, réaliser, financer des contenus pour les nouveaux médias”

Stage de 5 semaines (formation en présentiel, à distance ou mixte).

Cette formation approfondie proposée par le CEFPF, dont le formateur référent est Benoît Labourdette, permet l’appropriation des nouveaux langages, technologies et pratiques de l’audiovisuel numérique, dans une perspective de construction (...)

Cinematheque of Martigues : “From the sensitive to the camera”

The Cinematheque of Martigues offers a program of films by Benoît Labourdette. “From the sensitive to the camera”Benoît Labourdette’s film program, from April 1 to 15, 2017, as part of the exhibition “Films in the Pockets”.Presentation (...)

Association Hors champs - Formation Pocket Films

Transfer of innovative teaching tools for image education.Hors Champs association in Niort, organizer of the Festival Takavoir (shot with mobile phones or pocket-camera films), is commissioned by the Poitou-Charentes Region, in the context (...)

City of Clermont de l’Oise : shooting of a film with drone

Workshop of film making with drone for a group of teenagers in Clermont de l’Oise.ACAP (Pôle Image Picardie), within the framework of the Passeurs d’Images system and in collaboration with the Center socio-culture de Clermont de l’Oise, (...)

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Pedagogical use of the “By my window” platform

Cooperative cultural activity for educational purposes.

Exploit the video platform “By my window” in the pedagogical field during and after lockdown: reweave links and learning through shared audiovisual creativity. By my window“By my window” is one of the many cultural proposals launched during (...)

“Scrivener” to write a script

Scrivener is probably today the best software to write a script. Synthetic discovery of this tool. Why a specific software to write a screenplay?Why would we need specific software to write a script? Don’t we just need a pen or a word (...)

BPI Centre Pompidou: production of a collective film in Virtual Reality

In four hours, form a group, experiment with RV, appropriate a place and the technique, imagine a scenario, and shoot a 360° film, thanks to collective creativity and cooperation..The Bibliothèque Publique d’Information of the Centre (...)

Mind mapping to build a script

One of the first difficulties of writing the script is the macroscopic structure, ie the general sense of the narrative. Forget Syd FieldThere are, of course, the famous “three-act structure,” dear to Syd Field (see his famous book (...)

Anthem

Don’t limit my creativity. I am not a judge of quality. It doesn’t matter how others look at it. I do.

CCAS: Filmmaking workshops in holiday centres

Filmmaking workshops in holiday centres.Holiday centres CCAS traditionally offer holidaymakers many quality cultural activities. In the summer of 2018, we proposed an innovative, creative and participatory activity as part of the (...)

Swiss Foundation: “Are you connected?”- Evening / workshop Mobile Film Festival

The Swiss Foundation at the Cité Universitaire in Paris (France), proposes, run by students, regular screenings of films.February 12, 2015 meeting devoted to the decade of the Mobile Film Festival, that I presented with Patrizia De Lauretis, (...)

It’s like turning on a faucet, and letting it run, it’s going to run harder and harder, and better and better.

Cinema Jacques Brel Garges-lès-Gonesse: VR workshop for children

Making VR movies for groups of kids in an hour.As part of the “Almost Screen-Free Week”, the town of Garges-lès-Gonesse offered critical thinking workshops on digital technology to all audiences, especially children.At the suggestion of (...)

Inventing reality

When I feel within myself that the “creative push” is there, I have to take it as a blessing and listen to it, fully.

Flinty

Regional meetings Passeurs d’images Rhône Alpes : production of a collective film for 80 people

Collaborative creation of a film for 80 people.The Regional Meetings of Image Passengers of the Rhône-Alpes Region, organized by Acrira (Amaury Piotin) at the cinema of La Turbine (Michel Caré and François Bonifacj) on October 7,2017, (...)

“VR can still enter everyday use”

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Pablo Maillé in Usbek & Rica media.

Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has not yet been appropriated by the general public. It seems interesting to me to take a step aside, playful, to build our critical mind on VR. The Usbek & Rica media interviewed me on this (...)

The symbolic third, a tool to connect

Psychoanalytical tool to promote the construction of the link.

The symbolic third is a concept that may seem very abstract, but for me it is very effective in creating a constructive link, especially between adults and youth. Here is a short synthesis of it, as I understand it. In psychoanalysis, to be is (...)

Infilmement small festival : drone workshop for teenagers

Explorer and challenge the imagination of the drone into action by the realization of a collective film. Infilmement small festivalAs part of the 4th edition of the film festival for high school students Infilmement small festival, I (...)

Calligram workshops for children

As part of the poetry biennial “Les ailleurs” in Charleville-Mézières.

Creative calligraphy workshops, using graphics, movement, writing, music and digital technology, for two elementary school classes in Charleville-Mézières. Half a day per class. Poetry in the classroom?A poet comes into a classroom. How can (...)

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Advertising for exhibition of Jacques Tati’s photographs - YellowKorner

The “chain” of photographic galleries YellowKorner (70 galleries in the world), in partnership with Les films de mon oncle, exposes from april 16th to june 14th 2014 nine photographic prints extracts from films of Jacques Tati : Big Day (...)

The fact of creating new things, all the time, as I do, has a very great value.

That was what Agnès Varda did, for example. She didn’t do it much, but she never stopped imagining, dreaming, desiring.

Animation d’ateliers de réalisation Pocket Films - Imaginascience

Animation d’ateliers de réalisation de films dans 3 classes de lycée, pour le concours Pocket Films - Imaginascience 2015.Dans le cadre du concours Pocket Films - Imaginascience, j’ai animé trois ateliers de réalisation de films, dans trois (...)

Ramdam Festival: conference and realization of a collective film

The 4th edition of the Ramdam Festival (festival of the disturbing movies), that was held in Tournai Belgium in January 2014, invited me to deliver a lecture “Mobile phone is the future of cinema” , followed by the creation of a collective film (...)

Trafik Festival 2019: collaborative audiovisual creation event

A high level cultural event, based on the creativity of the participants: making films from commented photographs, broadcast at the time, which invite the spectators to contribute to it.. The projectIn November 2019, as part of the Festival (...)

Thinking about moving kaleidoscope image

The criteria of compositionWhen we do the framing of an image with a camera, we often use the classical criteria of image composition, inherited from the tradition of figurative painting. Which is quite natural. Things as we see them in the (...)

Presentation of the metaverse

Thoughts for consideration.

On October 28, 2021, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the change of his company’s name to “Meta” as well as his plans for the future, in this one hour and fifteen minute video. It opens up some food for thought.In a philosophical (...)

The Company, place of creation in Marseille : drone workshop

Inventing art forms, filmed with drone.The Company, place of contemporary art in Marseille, led by Paul-Emmanuel Odin, invited me to offer to local youth, in the central and very popular in Marseille where it is an audiovisual creative (...)

3^rd Castres Short Film Festival: participative film

Study day, during which I presented the first version of the film The unconscious actors. Participative projection. A participatory filmThe proposal I made to those present was, after the film was broadcast, to film, with the same phone, or (...)

There is no need to film a subject, filming is the subject.

Because to film is to produce an encounter, and it is the encounter that gives life.

“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 (...)

“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 (...)

Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training

Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone.The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), which is involved since a long time in dissemination and education to the image, offered a training in filmmaking with mobile phone, which (...)

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.

APSV: Conference “Potentialities of image education in the field of social action”

How filmmaking workshop practices, if conducted in the right way, can build strong social bonds.

Le Télégramme : “By my window”, a platform that publishes your confined videos

Newspaper article.

Interview of Benoît Labourdette on the back of the Breton newspaper Le Télégramme, about the platform By my window, by Guenaëlle Daujon..Link to the article on Le Télégramme :https://www.letelegramme.fr/france/benoit-labourdette-nous-sommes-tous

Creation is like life, it’s going on an adventure without knowing where you’re going to end up. It is above all the movement of going, of doing while doing.

Story of my life

Montpellier III University : Transmedia strategies, encoding and creativity

5 day course : technical basis, strategy and creativity for new media.The students of the “Licence Pro audiovisual designer director” (University Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 - France) have a multidisciplinary profile, both artistic and (...)