Film and media literacy

Training for professionals, workshops, research and texts on film education, in the cultural, school and social fields. Learning to make images in order to understand them better, and the other way round.

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The stories 28 publications

Collaborative assessment of screen literacy education in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Facilitating collective intelligence and cooperation dynamics 30 March 2026

Collective intelligence methodology, digital platform, and collaborative publication for ALCA (2026).

Media Literacy: Should We Judge or Guide?

Supporting cultural policies 17 March 2026

Reflections based on the National Meeting of Regional Centers for Media Literacy (Rouen, March 16–17, 2026).

Image Education and Citizenship: When Youth Professionals Rethink Their Practices

Supporting cultural policies 2 December 2025

{{Reflections on the “Out-of-School Time” professional day that I co-designed with ALCA and the Gironde Departmental Council.}}

Multidisciplinary photographic exhibition creation workshop

Moonlight click (Isabelle, Camélia, Elise, Elise)

Trainings for image education 23 April 2024

As part of the Awakening the eye training program (Institut pour la photographie).

Workshop “Tools, games and workshops for image education” - Images en bibliothèques

Trainings for image education 10 November 2023

A story of the session “How to run a video production workshop differently”, led by Benoît Labourdette.

“The use of screens at the heart of child protection”: conference / training by Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette

Trainings for image education 25 November 2022

Proposed by the Federation of the sunbeams of childhood and the IRTS PACA - Corsica.

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

Giving talks and conferences 16 September 2019

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

MJC Dole: “Image Education: Popular Education for the 21^st Century?”

Conférence “Education aux images : l'éducation populaire du XXIème Siècle ?” par Benoît Labourdette.

Giving talks and conferences 11 April 2019

Lecture by Benoît Labourdette for proposals for philosophical and practical tools of thought on the (…)

DRAC and DAAC Pays de la Loire: “Learning to see and hear, a collective experience”

Trainings for image education 11 September 2018

A professional training to collectively invent projection devices in order to build a greater intimacy (…)

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

Conference “For a new pedagogy of the image, between creation, self-construction and social connection”

Trainings for image education 26 April 2018

Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration (…)

Pocketfilms-Empathy

Trainings for image education 1 March 2018

Project to support psychosocial and pedagogical practices around the empathy clinic and using images. By (…)

CNPFT: Training on uses and educational projects around digital technology with young people and children from 12 years old

Love movie: It's over (Marjorie, Mahamadou, Eddy)

Trainings for image education 8 December 2017

Training in digital image education at the CNFPT (Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale).. (…)

Vatos Locos Video: “Designing and implementing artistic practice projects to combat racism and discrimination”

Trainings for image education 23 June 2017

Vocational training for leaders, teachers and managers of social and cultural structures. Video as a Tool (…)

Observatory of Cultural Policies: “Territorial Projects and Cooperation”

Trainings for image education 30 January 2017

Territory, digital, culture, participation, participation, creativity... keys to understanding and (…)

Image’Est : Images education facing everyday image practices

“J'ai un truc à vous dire”, film collectif

Trainings for image education 18 November 2016

As part of the Festival of documentary films “The real in sight”, Image’ is, business education to the (…)

East image: Cover images that make violence happen

Trainings for image education 9 November 2016

Training on how to teach about violent images.East Image, Regional Centre for Arts Education and (…)

National Meeting of coordinators School and Cinema: “Image education 2.0”

Trainings for image education 8 October 2015

Benoît Labourdette Conference and workshop on the development of image educational practices in the (…)

Region Poitou-Charentes : Digital Practices Training

Trainings for image education 23 June 2015

Cross Training to digital practices for mediators and teachers.With Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou (…)

Ciclic - Training Passeurs image 2015 : The Pocket Film

Trainings for image education 20 April 2015

“Pocket Films” trainging for social workers and street educators - Central France Region.Ciclic (…)

Embassy of France in Spain: Pocket Films Training for teaching French as a foreign language

Trainings for image education 28 March 2015

Filmmaking techniques using cell phones for teaching French as a foreign language in Spain.The (…)

Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training

Trainings for image education 28 February 2015

Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone.The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), (…)

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

Trainings for image education 12 January 2015

Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou Charentes region, proposed as part of “Lycéens in cinemas”, that one of (…)

Tell me your technologies contest - Pocket Films training

Trainings for image education 3 December 2014

Train mediators who will lead filmmaking workshops.The association Les atomes crochus offers since 2013 (…)

Video Les beaux jours : Mashup workshop

Trainings for image education 27 November 2014

To make animated films from cut paper. The meetings of image education in AlsaceAs part of the meetings (…)

Association Hors champs - Formation Pocket Films

Formations Éducation aux images 6 novembre 2014

Transmission d’outils pédagogiques innovants pour l’éducation à l’image.L’association Hors Champs à (…)

ECLA Aquitaine : 1^st Regional Forum on Education in the image - Conference and Workshop

Collective movie : “Invetory” (40 people - french speaking, no subtitles)

Trainings for image education 10 December 2013

The agency ÉCLA, Pôle régional aquitain d’éducation artistique et de formation au cinéma et à (…)

“Image carriers” Brittany - Training “portable cinema”

Trainings for image education 28 June 2013

At the invitation of the UFFEJ Britanny (Laurence Dabosville), I proposed a day of training for project (…)

“Pocket Films” training for facilitators (Savigny-sur-Orge, France)

Trainings for image education 14 May 2013

Peggy Nacitas, host video MJC Savigny-sur-Orge (and former coordinator of Imag’Essone Festival), having (…)

Our resources 49 publications

Framed, autonomous, vernacular: a typology of the regimes of images

Image Education / Research on the Image 9 June 2026

Why defining the different regimes of images is a political, educational and heritage prerequisite.

Sound is the first factor of immersion

Image Education / Research on the Image 6 June 2026

Why immersion begins with the ears.

Delegated Thinking

Media and Information Education (MIE) 11 May 2026

Why intellectuals suspend their critical thinking on certain topics.

“I Am Not an Activist, I Am Engaged”

Media and Information Education (MIE) 2 May 2026

Denis Robert and the Trap of Rationality.

Attestational Dramaturgy

Media and Information Education (MIE) 18 April 2026

A concept for understanding the journalistic staging of reality, in dialogue with Bourdieu, Debord, Baudrillard, Chomsky, Colon, Deleuze, Watkins and Virilio.

Image education as a space for connection

Round Table “The Time of Gazes” (16 March 2026)

Image Education / Research on the Image 16 March 2026

Trusting how people see to restore dialogue.

Banning social media for under-15s

Media and Information Education (MIE) 2 February 2026

The symptom of adult domination, or how to deal with it.

The Lies of Experts

Media and Information Education (MIE) 23 January 2026

When authoritative speech replaces the scientific method.

The Mythology of Truth

Media and Information Education (MIE) 18 January 2026

For an Ethnological Critique of the Journalistic Claim to Objectivity.

Media Reassurance

Media and Information Education (MIE) 17 December 2025

When a barometer on youth trust mainly reveals journalism’s blind spots.

INSERM’s Anti-Fake News Campaign

Media and Information Education (MIE) 14 December 2025

When public health adopts the methods of propaganda.

Ethnographic Collection as a Tool for Media Education

Media and Information Education (MIE) 10 December 2025

Learning to listen in order to learn to see: a method of gathering speech radically different from journalism.

Are Polls and Surveys Objective?

Media and Information Education (MIE) 3 December 2025

Toward a Sociological Critique of Information Production Devices.

The Journalist and His Mirror

Media and Information Education (MIE) 29 November 2025

An Epistemological Critique of Media Literacy Education by Those Who Produce Media.

Training Eyes in the Age of AI: A Day to Rethink Image Education

Media and Information Education (MIE) 26 November 2025

Account of a professional training day where teachers, librarians, and young people in civic service explored the challenges of artificial intelligence through creation and critical debate.

Creativity as a political weapon against the society of the spectacle

Media and Information Education (MIE) 4 November 2025

Toward an Emancipatory Media Education Through Artistic Practice.

Media and ai education through creativity

Media and Information Education (MIE) 24 October 2025

Account of a training session: when artificial intelligence becomes a pedagogical tool for developing critical thinking.

The paradox of digital criticism

Media and Information Education (MIE) 22 October 2025

When intellectual posturing masks our own contradictions.

Screens and Economy

Media and Information Education (MIE) 29 September 2025

GDP as a Disoriented Compass.

The Reality and Fiction of Images

Image Education / Research on the Image 28 September 2025

How our perceptions navigate between memorial reconstruction and multiple image regimes.

A Study Here, A Study There

Media and Information Education (MIE) 24 September 2025

The illusion of objectivity in the era of “fact-checking.”

Inside the Mind of Conspiracy Theorists

Media and Information Education (MIE) 11 September 2025

Philosophical reflection on the political use of the word “conspiracy theorist” and its implications for democratic debate.

Social media, mirror of our gaze

Media and Information Education (MIE) 10 September 2025

Rather than judging tools, let’s analyze what our perspective reveals about ourselves.

The Accelerated Eye

Image Education / Research on the Image 7 September 2025

Manifesto for a new ecology of the gaze.

The Selfie, Mirror of Narcissus?

Media and Information Education (MIE) 30 August 2025

A Plea for Redefining Our Relationship to Images.

Critical analysis of journalistic treatment of a public health topic

Media and Information Education (MIE) 29 August 2025

How the press, believing it informs, constructs an oriented reality in service of economic interests.

The fact-checking imposture

Media and Information Education (MIE) 25 August 2025

Why the pretension to objectivity is the greatest lie of modern information.

Cloud of Nuanced Screens

Media and Information Education (MIE) 15 August 2025

For an enlightened ecology of our digital lives.

Petite Poucette 2.0

Media and Information Education (MIE) 13 August 2025

In Praise of Social Networks Against the Moral Panic of the Elite.

Media and Information Education: Rethinking the Role of Journalists

Media and Information Education (MIE) 6 August 2025

For a Critical Pedagogy Free from the Journalistic Lens.

About the “new” images

Image Education / Research on the Image 17 June 2025

A critical reflection on technological innovation and real cultural transformation.

The evolution of law and symbolic power in the age of social networks

Hearing of Alex Hitchens at the Commission of Inquiry into the psychological effects of TikTok on minors (June 10, 2025).

Media and Information Education (MIE) 12 June 2025

When traditional institutions lose their grip on new power players.

The cinephilia of excerpts

Image Education / Research on the Image 30 April 2025

Legitimizing new “impure” practices.

For a photographic ecology

Image Education / Research on the Image 18 April 2025

A method of opening up to oneself through images.

Cinema and death

Image Education / Research on the Image 11 April 2025

To redefine cinema as an intrinsically diverse phenomenon.

Artificial intelligence is an opportunity for free and experimental cinema

Image Education / Research on the Image 6 April 2025

AI offers humanity the opportunity to reclaim its place.

The difference between image and sound from a neurological point of view

Image Education / Research on the Image 11 February 2025

A tool for audiovisual creation.

La réinvention de la séance collective de cinéma sur TikTok

Éducation aux images / Recherche sur l’image 22 janvier 2025

Renaissance spontanée du partage de l’art comme humanisme.

For contemplative cinema

Image Education / Research on the Image 4 November 2023

Theoretical opening of the definition of cinema

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

Media and Information Education (MIE) 11 May 2022

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

Bellapoarch, or the Mona Lisa of the 21^st Century?

Image Education / Research on the Image 20 September 2020

Analysis of a success.

Vertical films

Image Education / Research on the Image 24 June 2020

Reflection and starting point for experiments.

Drawing on architecture

Image Education / Research on the Image 17 February 2019

The projected image is an extremely rich track to animate architecture, private or public space, the (…)

Research-action “Image Education 2.1”

Cultural rights 14 February 2018

Collaborative action-research project led by Benoît Labourdette production in 2018 and 2019, to develop (…)

The singularity, a collaborative transmedia artistic project

Image Education / Research on the Image 31 December 2017

“The singularity” is a collaborative transmedia project, launched in 2016 by Benoît Labourdette. Around a (…)

Smugglers images national metting 2016 : pico-projection workshop

Image Education / Research on the Image 19 November 2016

As part of smugglers national meetings of images 2016 November 19, 2016, I proposed a “pico-projection (…)

Tell me LED

Image Education / Research on the Image 8 January 2016

Creative residency at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil: participatory creation and feature film. Creative (…)

Book: “Image education 2.0”

Image Education / Research on the Image 13 October 2015

Practical guide (free download).

Ministry of Culture (France) : National Consultation on Arts and Cultural Education

Speaking of Benoît Labourdette (11/29/2012) - French speaking

Image Education / Research on the Image 29 November 2012

The Ministry of Culture and Communication (France) launched in November 2012 a “National Consultation on (…)

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