The mobile phone and Pocket Films

Making films with a mobile phone as early as 2005, when cameras first appeared in phones: the Pocket Films Festival, founded with the Forum des images, opened this field. It has been carried on since through workshops, training courses, books and films, where the pocket tool serves creation and the taking of speech.

This domain to print (PDF)

The stories 41 publications

The mobile phone as a tool for cinematic creation

Pocket Films Festival 8 July 2025

Revolutionizing practices and perspectives.

The birth of the Pocket Films Festival (2005)

Pocket Films Festival 27 June 2025

An audiovisual revolution at the dawn of the mobile era.

“Smartphone, potential tool of the contemporary artist”

Performance phones (ACCES - EMA - June 18, 2022)

Giving talks and conferences 18 June 2022

Round table organized by “accès)s(”, June 18, 2022.

BnF: Pocket Films Empathy, as part of “Views on Serge Tisseron”

Pocket Films Empathy - Speech by Benoît Labourdette (7'30s)

Giving talks and conferences 30 November 2019

Short lecture by Benoît Labourdette (7’30s).

City of Lilas: animated filmmaking workshops for teenagers

Cartoon Pocket Films workshops 23 October 2018

Workshops on how to make animated films that are silent by teenagers, independently and responsibly.As (…)

Pocketfilms-Empathy

Trainings for image education 1 March 2018

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

Nelson Mandela Library in Angers : “Five years old, five movies.”

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 25 November 2017

Filmmaking workshop with mobile phone for teenagers in a library.On the occasion of its fifth (…)

Canopé 92: Pocket Films workshop in primary schools

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 24 April 2017

Cinematographic creativity in the digital age in the Hauts-de-Seine: a “Pocket Films” dynamic for primary (…)

CCAS: Animated films workshop on the theme of work

Cartoon Pocket Films workshops 19 February 2017

Two animated films making workshops (filmed and commented drawings) for electric and gas industry workers (…)

Remise des prix Pocket Films - Imaginascience

Tous les films du concours Pocket Films - Imaginascience 2015

Imaginascience 2015 : concours Pocket Films 13 octobre 2015

Remise des prix du concours Pocket Films - Imaginascience et lancement d’Imaginascience 2015.La (…)

Animation d’ateliers de réalisation Pocket Films - Imaginascience

Imaginascience 2015 : concours Pocket Films 1er octobre 2015

Animation d’ateliers de réalisation de films dans 3 classes de lycée, pour le concours Pocket Films - (…)

LPMA (universities Paris 6 & 7) : production of a collective film

“Bernard Bru : chapitre 2” (film collectif)

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 22 September 2015

Production of a collective film by researchers in mathematics.The Laboratory of Probability and Random (…)

90 seconds contest - Thematic Films production

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 12 September 2015

Film Workshop with mobile phone : 20 films shot in one day!“The 90 seconds contest” organized by the (…)

ACAP Pôle Image Picardie - collective film workshop

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 4 June 2015

Making collective films in movie theater for high school students.The ACAP (Pôle Image Picardie) (…)

Organisation of the Pocket Films contest - Imaginascience

Imaginascience 2015 : Pocket Films contest 1 June 2015

Inventing a competition of films shot with mobile phone in the framework of meetings of the scientific (…)

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 (…)

Video Contest “90 seconds” : call for entries

“90 seconds” film contest 4 April 2015

Contest 90 second films tell the story and the sensitivity of the city of Le Havre (France).“Movie Le (…)

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 (…)

Women’s Film Festival in Créteil - Creation of a collective movie

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 17 March 2015

Making a collective movie by young people at the International Festival of Créteil Women’s Film.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), (…)

CFI : Pocket Films training for cinema teachers (Ouagadougou)

Pocket Films training show (CFI / Imagine Institute Ouagadougou)

Pocket Films Workshops for professionals 27 February 2015

Training methods “Pocket Films” for movie teachers in Africa. FrameCFI (French Agency Media (…)

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 (…)

’Croizy’ Festival for positive disability : “Pocket Films” workshop

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 7 January 2015

Filmmaking workshops on the theme of positive disability. Croizy positive disability FestivalThe Croizy (…)

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 (…)

ESAV Toulouse : Pocket Films Workshop

Pocket Films Workshops for professionals 21 November 2014

Twenty-six films made in three days.Since 2006, barely a year after the appearance of cameras in mobile (…)

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 (…)

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

Cartoon Pocket Films workshops 16 June 2013

In the “Mashup Film Festival” at the Forum des Images (Paris, France), 15 and 16 June 2013, I was invited (…)

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

Pocket Films Workshops for professionals 31 May 2013

The fémis (National School of picture and sound, Paris - France) offers a “Summer School”, which is each (…)

2013 edition of Cameras Mobiles Festival

Cameras Mobiles Festival - 2013 edition 25 May 2013

The 2013 edition of Cameras Mobiles Festival, produced by Lux national scene of Valence (France), which (…)

“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 (…)

Pocket Films Workshop at the social house of Prés-St-Martin (Savigny-sur-Orge / France)

Pocket Films workshops for everyone 7 May 2013

At the initiative of Peggy Nacitas, in the MJC (House of Young people and Culture) of Savigny-sur-Orge (…)

Arts Center of Enghien-les-bains - Animation movie workshop

Cartoon Pocket Films workshops 2 December 2012

The Arts Centre Enghien Les Bains / digital Scriptures, an important place of digital creation in France, (…)

Program of Cameras Mobiles Festival 2012

Cameras Mobiles Festival - 2012 edition 17 October 2012

The “mobile camera”, or “pen camera”, that everyone has now permanently in the pocket, is a myth that (…)

Benoît Labourdette’s video interview

Caméras Mobiles 2011 - Benoît Labourdette's interview

Cameras Mobiles Festival - 2011 edition 20 April 2011

In this interview, I explain the reasons that made my interest in creating audiovisual experiences with (…)

Marie Vermillard’s video interview

Caméras Mobiles 2011 - Marie Vermillard's interview

Cameras Mobiles Festival - 2011 edition 20 April 2011

Marie Vermillard is a director (Lila Lili, Small revelations, Spoken suite ...). She has directed a short (…)

Alain Fleischer’s video interview

Caméras Mobiles 2011 - Alain Fleischer's interview

Cameras Mobiles Festival - 2011 edition 20 April 2011

Alain Fleischer, filmmaker, artist, photographer, writer, director of Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts (…)

Festival Caméras Mobiles ’s 2011 program

Cameras Mobiles Festival - 2011 edition 30 March 2011

The program of the first Festival Caméras Mobile was rich and varied. Three times in the festival: The (…)

Catalogs of all editions of the Pocket Films Festival

Pocket Films Festival 1 July 2010

The Pocket Films Festival (which I founded with Forum des images - Paris, concepted and directed), during (…)

INA, iconic college : “Mobile phone is it the future of cinema?” (conference)

Conférence « Le téléphone portable est-il l'avenir du cinéma ? »

Giving talks and conferences 10 March 2010

March 10, 2010, invited by Serge Tisseron, I made a speech at iconic College INA, on the theme “The (…)

www.festivalpocketfilms.fr website

Websites, video platforms, digital cooperation spaces 1 June 2009

Design, editorial management and redesign of the website of a film festival, the Pocket Films Festival. (…)

Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

Presentation of the book by Benoît Labourdette

Pocket Films Festival 31 July 2008

The first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a (…)

The works of Benoît Labourdette 72 publications

Equality is not won!

Collective films 15 October 2022

A collective film (3’12s, 2022).

Fragments of lives

Collective films 12 October 2022

A collective movie (3’20s, 2022).

Inanimate thoughts

Collective films 16 May 2022

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (3’34s, 2022).

Words from objects

Collective films 6 April 2022

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (2’45s, 2022).

Bounces

Collective films 7 February 2022

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (8’57s, 2022).

Putting yourself in the other person’s shoes

Collective films 17 December 2021

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (2’40s, 2021).

What if I were outside?

Collective films 27 November 2021

A collective film supervised by Benoît Labourdette (6’, 2021).

Repressed artists

Collective films 13 October 2021

A collective movie (3’05s, 2021).

Interconnected expressions

Collective films 5 October 2021

A collective film (3’14s, 2021).

Today, I am...

Collective films 22 September 2021

A collective movie (4’19s, 2021).

Rights Story

Films collectifs 13 septembre 2021

Un film collectif (2’42s, 2021).

Exquisite objects

Collective films 7 October 2020

Collective film (3’04s, 2020).

Imagination

Films collectifs 1er octobre 2020

Film collectif (5’28s, 2020).

Miracle smugglers

Collective films 28 September 2020

Collective film (3’05s, 2020).

Life after

Collective films 17 September 2020

Collective film (2’55s, 2020).

Melting friends

Collective films 7 March 2020

Collective film (4’32s, 2020)

16 moments of solitude

Collective films 7 February 2020

Collective film (6’15s, 2020)

Fast Forward

Films collectifs 5 février 2020

Film collectif (1’35s, 2020).

Timetology

Films collectifs 5 février 2020

Film collectif (2’37s, 2020).

Even them

Collective films 6 January 2020

Collective film (1’45s, 2020).

Bring in the objects

Collective films 12 December 2019

Collective film (4’37s, 2019).

Rhysome

Films collectifs 4 décembre 2019

Film collectif (3’38s, 2019).

Social objects

Collective films 25 November 2019

Collective film (2’14s, 2019).

Talk to me

Collective films 14 November 2019

Collective film (4’22s, 2019).

Image bazaar

Collective films 29 October 2019

Collective film (2’00s, 2019).

See or be seen

Collective films 4 September 2019

Collective film (3’29s, 2019).

Utobjects

Collective films 15 July 2019

Film collectif (3’11s, 2019).

Spin the cam’

Collective films 6 June 2019

Collective film (3’10s, 2019).

The skewer

Collective films 6 June 2019

Collective film (4’36s, 2019).

Steps

Collective films 3 June 2019

Collective film (4’57s, 2019).

The room next door

Collective films 13 April 2019

Collective film (2’47s, 2019).

In object life?

Collective films 13 April 2019

Collective film (2’54s, 2019).

Westward direction

Collective films 29 March 2019

Collective film (7’30s, 2019).

Fight Men

Collective films 20 February 2019

Collective film (1’36s, 2019).

The fight

Collective films 14 February 2019

Collective film (0’54s, 2019).

Personal inventories

Collective films 8 February 2019

Collective film (7’17s, 2019).

It happened far from home

Collective films 7 February 2019

Collective film (4’38s, 2019).

Reactions

Collective films 23 October 2018

Collective film (1’37s, 2018).

The unusual and obsessive life of the teenager

Collective films 24 September 2018

Collective film (2’48s, 2018).

Objects have a soul

Collective films 7 July 2018

Collective film (2’12s, 2018).

I can hear you

Collective films 23 May 2018

Collective film (5’21s, 2018).

Gossip

Collective films 30 March 2018

Collective film (5’19s, 2018).

We are together

Collective films 29 March 2018

Collective film (10’51s, 2018).

Still speech

Collective films 23 March 2018

Collective film (3’19s, 2018).

Objective(s)

Collective films 23 March 2018

Collective film (5’49s, 2018).

The hectic life of our objects

Collective films 21 February 2018

Collective film (3’49s, 2018).

Objectively

Collective films 19 February 2018

Collective film (2’43s, 2018).

Delusional objects

Collective films 8 February 2018

Collective film (7’22s, 2018).

Things story

Collective films 4 December 2017

Collective film (4’25s, 2017).

Prison break

Films collectifs 27 novembre 2017

Film collectif (2’28s, 2017).

Choice of words

Collective films 23 June 2017

Collective film (7’22s, 2017).

The Union of Objects

Collective films 20 April 2017

Collective film (1’51s, 2017).

Kaleidoscope

Collective films 30 November 2016

Collective film (5’07s, 2016).

I want to tell you something

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

Collective films 18 November 2016

Collective film (3’38s, 2016).

Speech objects

Collective films 22 June 2016

Collective film (4’11s, 2016).

I exist

Collective films 25 May 2016

Collective film (4’42s, 2016).

Collection de connexions

Films collectifs 30 avril 2016

Film collectif (4’34s, 2016).

Bring in the objects

Collective films 25 April 2016

Collective film (1’56s, 2016).

The hidden side

Collective films 6 January 2016

Collective film (4’07s, 2016).

Bernard Bru, chapter 2

Collective films 22 September 2015

Collective film (5’27s, 2015).

Country Appointment

Collective films 15 April 2015

Collective film (3’27s, 2015).

From you to me

Collective films 5 March 2015

Collective film (15’25s, 2015).

The descent

Collective films 16 February 2015

Collective film (4’33s, 2015).

The curved lounge

Collective films 12 February 2015

Collective film (3’02s, 2015).

Christ’s flea market

Collective films 21 November 2014

Collective film (6’24s, 2014).

Stars of yesterday

Collective films 6 November 2014

Collective film (1’37s, 2014).

Lost and found objects

Collective films 24 September 2014

Collective film (4’41s, 2014).

The unspoken words of the objects

Collective films 26 January 2014

Collective film (5’52s, 2014).

The dead-end life of objects

Collective film “Life hopeless objects” (15 people - french speaking, no subtitles)

Collective films 10 December 2013

Collective film (2’34s, 2013).

If objects could talk

Collective films 24 October 2013

Collective film (3’, 2013).

Each in turn

Collective films 2 April 2013

Collective film (1’55s, 2013).

Mobile Creation Colloquium

Collective movie made during the Mobile Creation Symposium 2012

Collective films 14 June 2012

Collective film (17’40s, 2012).

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The mobile phone and Pocket Films

The stories 41 publications

The mobile phone as a tool for cinematic creation

The birth of the Pocket Films Festival (2005)

“Smartphone, potential tool of the contemporary artist”

BnF: Pocket Films Empathy, as part of “Views on Serge Tisseron”

City of Lilas: animated filmmaking workshops for teenagers

Pocketfilms-Empathy

Nelson Mandela Library in Angers : “Five years old, five movies.”

Canopé 92: Pocket Films workshop in primary schools

CCAS: Animated films workshop on the theme of work

Remise des prix Pocket Films - Imaginascience

Animation d’ateliers de réalisation Pocket Films - Imaginascience

LPMA (universities Paris 6 & 7) : production of a collective film

90 seconds contest - Thematic Films production

ACAP Pôle Image Picardie - collective film workshop

Organisation of the Pocket Films contest - Imaginascience

Ciclic - Training Passeurs image 2015 : The Pocket Film

Video Contest “90 seconds” : call for entries

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

Women’s Film Festival in Créteil - Creation of a collective movie

Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training

CFI : Pocket Films training for cinema teachers (Ouagadougou)

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

’Croizy’ Festival for positive disability : “Pocket Films” workshop

Tell me your technologies contest - Pocket Films training

ESAV Toulouse : Pocket Films Workshop

Association Hors champs - Formation Pocket Films

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

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

2013 edition of Cameras Mobiles Festival

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

Pocket Films Workshop at the social house of Prés-St-Martin (Savigny-sur-Orge / France)

Arts Center of Enghien-les-bains - Animation movie workshop

Program of Cameras Mobiles Festival 2012

Benoît Labourdette’s video interview

Marie Vermillard’s video interview

Alain Fleischer’s video interview

Festival Caméras Mobiles ’s 2011 program

Catalogs of all editions of the Pocket Films Festival

INA, iconic college : “Mobile phone is it the future of cinema?” (conference)

www.festivalpocketfilms.fr website

Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

Our resources 4 publications

Educational sheets “Pocket Films” (Students and apprentices in cinema 2014-2015)

Book : “Mobile phone and creation”

The Journal of animation : Action article “Making a film with a cell phone: creativity citizenship”

CLEMI: Fact sheets video with mobile phone

The works of Benoît Labourdette 72 publications

Equality is not won!

Fragments of lives

Inanimate thoughts

Words from objects

Bounces

Putting yourself in the other person’s shoes

What if I were outside?

Repressed artists

Interconnected expressions

Today, I am...

Rights Story

Exquisite objects

Imagination

Miracle smugglers

Life after

Melting friends

16 moments of solitude

Fast Forward

Timetology

Even them

Bring in the objects

Rhysome

Social objects

Talk to me

Image bazaar

See or be seen

Utobjects

Spin the cam’

The skewer

Steps

The room next door