Film school

Why use special software to write a screenplay ? A screenplay goes, often in a standardized format, which boils down to something very simple: one page = 1 minute. A script page contains: numbers, title and details of scenes, stage directions (...)

31 January 2007

3 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

CFI : Pocket Films training for cinema teachers (Ouagadougou)

Training methods “Pocket Films” for movie teachers in Africa. Frame CFI (French Agency Media Cooperation) proposed in the context of the “Images of Africa” formation (training program for careers in television and cinema) a “Pocket Films” course of (...)

27 February 2015

2 min

CFI : Digital Training for teachers editors (AFDA - South Africa)

Expert training to technology and digital video workflows, for editing teachers from several schools in the African continent. At AFDA, Johannesburg, South Africa. Inter-school training program CFI the French Cooperation Agency media, organizes (...)

8 July 2015

2 min

www.esav.fr website

Building of the website ot ESAV film school - Toulouse (France). A film school ESAV is a public film school of the highest level, which is part of the University of Toulouse Le Mirail. ESAV is directed by Jean-Louis Dufour. It was founded in (...)

10 November 2012

2 min

La fémis (Summer School) : Pocket Films workshop (France)

The fémis (National School of picture and sound, Paris - France) offers a “Summer School”, which is each year a documentary filmmaking course during two months for students from around the world. I assure the animation of the beginning of the (...)

31 May 2013

2 min

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

Interlacing magazine: “The mental film”

From the point of view of perception, a film is only an illusion formed by our brain from visual and auditory stimuli. Images seen can produce sounds and vice versa. Each person mentally constructs a different film from the same film seen. Thus (...)

27 October 2018

14 min

Pocket Films

Pocket Films began as a film festival, founded by Benoît Labourdette with Forum des images (Paris, France, 2005-2010), dedicated to the creation of films with cell phones and pocket cameras. Its success made that it has become a common name : we (...)

Pocket Films Workshops for professionals

Workshops for filmmaking with pocket cameras that I run through schools of art, cinema and other vocational training centers (Femis, Le Fresnoy, ESAV Toulouse, CEFPF,Imagine Institute Ouagadougou...). Appropriating very light production (...)