16 moments of solitude

Collective film (6’15s, 2020)

Like a little story of writing and looking, from paper to screens.

My future

Spin the cam’

Collective film (3’10s, 2019).

A revolt of objects against the Internet and its uses.

“Cinema and video games”: three lectures by Benoît Labourdette.

Within the framework of the university of the cinema of Ciclic.

These lectures examine the relationship between the worlds of film and video games. Parallel histories, crossings, reciprocal inspirations and hybridizations between cinema and video games, from Tron to machinimas through Elephant, Casino Royale (...)

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 proposed (...)

Calligraphy #2

Words are discovered, stripped, met in the adventure of their freehand writing.

Calligraphy #1

Calligraphic explorations, unique words inspiring their form of drawing.

Codex

Identity

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’04s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Luc Finstein).

Ragey writing can be beneficial.

Feminist Contemplation

Participatory art installation.

Words projected on the walls transform a simple place into a space that invites an intimate thought of feminism.Installation realized in collaboration with the students of the class of 2021/2022 of the Master 2 Audiovisual and Digital Media of (...)

Writing time.

I have to set aside some real time to write, or at least give myself the possibility to take it, because it takes time, anyway, and it’s very important.

Calligraphy #10

The intersection of the bodies of certain letters is the nature of this writing.

Poetry

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2017).

When the intimate poetry becomes public.

“Studying your own film: learning and issues”

Master’s thesis (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III - 1995)

My master’s thesis, written at the age of 25, about the audio post-production of my first feature film « Head in the water ». Direction : Pierre SorlinWriting about my creative practice is part of my creative work, as I implement it in my « Notes (...)

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 we (...)

Letters from the wind

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2021).

To exist, that is to say to declare oneself to oneself, even very discreetly, that changes everything.

The book’s title

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’41s, 2021).

On the difficulty of writing, of forming a sensitive and true trace of the most intimate and precious things. Immersion in the head of an author in search of the memory of a moment of sensuality.

Laid

Bell tower

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’26s, 2013).

On the way to autofiction, a conversation between a father and his son, played by the same voice.

Wings

A short documentary by Benoît Labourdette (4’36s, 2011).

Fate of the world leads me to cross a sculpture by Richard Texier in the port of La Rochelle, in July 2011. A correspondence, written and filmed, follows.

My work is not at all social, it is a work of writing, and therefore in essence anti-social.

It is, on the other hand, a very concrete, very real and generous work (as M. confirmed to me, really) that only I do. It is exceptional (as everyone is exceptional, but I am not less than the others).L. recognized, immediately, the value of (...)

The garden of my childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: The child).

Leafing through the old photographs of the collective unconscious is to return to oneself.

Poitiers film festival : writing workshop “Écrits sur Images”

Writing workshop based around photographs. This project was part of the 8th international film festival Filmer le travail in the city of Poitiers and was supported by the CCAS, the works council of EDF.The workshop took place on the 17th and (...)

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 (...)

Writing my thought (thought 372)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 2019).

Where the activity of writing takes us unwittingly into unfathomable depths.

What I write, even if it seems like nonsense, is a material, and I can do many things with it.

“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 (...)

“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 (...)

Software screenwriting

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 (...)

Calligrams #01

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’23s, 2021).

Sixty poems on the principle of words forming a pattern, popularized by Guillaume Apollinaire.Link to original poems.

Writing it

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2015).

Exploration by word and image of the relationship between physical movement and writing.

The “truth” of a script

Creativity method.

Truth“is not realism or verisimilitude. The”truth“is a perception of the spectator, which can be very powerful: it is the sign of an anchoring of the film in oneself, of the meaning that a work takes in our life, of the deep enrichment that it (...)

Written in the sand

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (4’48s, 2014).

Write, read, speak... but what ? And in what language ? I dont know... I listen without trying to understand.

Choice of words

Collective film (7’22s, 2017).

Words dance to make racism and discrimination vanish.

Diversité

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’48s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Abel A.).

Our simple alphabet is in itself of great diversity. This diversity is indispensable to every expression, every creation.

Diary

Writing the script of a documentary

Initially questions What is literature ? A look at the real ? A meeting between a filmmaker and a reality ? What is the value of a documentary ? In the quality of spontaneity, the truth of this meeting ? Spontaneity and truth are they two (...)

Writing workshop in inclusive language

Literary game.

Literary writing game in inclusive language, which can be offered even for a few minutes, in all types of settings and for all ages.Inclusive language is not a consensus at all. And yet, trying to practice it really makes you think about (...)

Ellipse

Love letters

News from father

A movie by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2014).

Life on a blank screen...

Différences

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’30s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Albert D.).

Philosophy of techniques confronted with human sociology.

Le tableau

A film by Sylviane Bertrand and Benoît Labourdette (1’, silent, 2018).

A simple painting can create controversy in a couple.

The unspoken words of the objects

Collective film (5’52s, 2014).

The unexpected little people of a movie theater.

Contents

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2019, muet).

Why do we let ourselves be photographed?Based on photos of Mark Neville published in Le Monde “M”.

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.

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 Screenplay), (...)

Abstracts of the conferences

The documentality explosionBy Maurizio FerrarisContrary to the predictions of the past century, we have not witnessed the disappearance of writing but, rather, to its explosion. And more generally to the explosion of the recording. The (...)