Calligraphic explorations, unique words inspiring their form of drawing.
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 (...)
Poetry inspired by the garden, whether in text, photography, sound or voice...
I discoveredI wandered I let myself be guided in the celestial gardencaught in the tangles of natureand the undulations of the figurebody and planta link is woven forms are braidedsensualYves Rousselet, November 2023
Collective film (6’15s, 2020)
Like a little story of writing and looking, from paper to screens.
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.
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 (...)
Collective film (7’22s, 2017).
Words dance to make racism and discrimination vanish.
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 (...)
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 (...)
Collective film (5’52s, 2014).
The unexpected little people of a movie theater.
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.
Words are discovered, stripped, met in the adventure of their freehand writing.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’56s, 2017).
When the intimate poetry becomes public.
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.
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 (...)
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”.
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.
Collective film (3’10s, 2019).
A revolt of objects against the Internet and its uses.
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.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’46s, silent, 2023).
To be a player on the other side of the necessary change in the world.
A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (6’02s, 2023).
The surface of our gestures is our writing. And our diverse writings are in dialogue.
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.
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 (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2015).
Exploration by word and image of the relationship between physical movement and writing.
Everyday Philosophical Tales
Written images of the world that evoke and build philosophical thoughts, gleaned from the encounters and shocks that life is woven with. Writing in the reality of confrontation. Confidence. Like short philosophical tales. Writing initiated in a (...)
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 (...)
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.
The intersection of the bodies of certain letters is the nature of this writing.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’22s, 2019).
Where the activity of writing takes us unwittingly into unfathomable depths.
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 (...)
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.
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 (...)
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.
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 (...)
A movie by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2014).
Life on a blank screen...
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’04s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Luc Finstein).
Ragey writing can be beneficial.
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 (...)
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 (...)
A film by Sylviane Bertrand and Benoît Labourdette (1’, silent, 2018).
A simple painting can create controversy in a couple.
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 (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’30s, silent, 2017, pseudonym: Albert D.).
Philosophy of techniques confronted with human sociology.
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 « (...)
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.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2024).
Time stands still. And then life returns. Pain is life. Sweetness is life. Replications. Messages. Double helix. Heal. ExtensionsWhen we live through borderline or traumatic experiences, we may find ourselves experiencing time in a way that (...)
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 (...)
Training new media in Picardy. Course open for registration.The training “New media, new writing, new funding” proposed by the University of Picardie and ACAP, from October 26 to 30, 2015 (duration: 30 hours) is aimed at professionals, to (...)
Writing, whether with images, sounds, words or the written word, is the guiding thread for thinking about the material we manipulate, by doing. In this case, texts and literary experiences.
Tools and techniques of screenwriting and film project building.
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).