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Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).

Michel Serres

(photo : DR)

Innovation

“Innovation” is a singularly overused word, which is often used to justify change for change’s sake, the new without thinking. Innovation is often (…)

Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio (1932-2018) is an urban planner and philosopher of technological acceleration, of the acceleration of time operated by machines, (…)

Fire

Fire, an energy that can be both constructive and destructive.

HTML

HTML is the initials of HyperText Markup Language, the computer language that allows the display of web pages (like this one). Its deployment (…)

Diffusion

Photograph by Jeanne Paravert.

Complotist

People who believe in “conspiracy theories” are known as “conspiracists” and, blinded by their imaginary beliefs, may commit violent acts such as (…)

Lamp

(photograph : Bénédicte Loyen)

Compersion

The word “compersion” was invented in the early 1970s in the Kerista community in San Francisco. It’s the opposite of jealousy. Derived from (…)

Telephone number

(photo : DR)

Paris Yellow Pages

Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville

Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville is an architect and landscape designer, following in the footsteps of Paul Virilio. He takes as concrete data the (…)

Cross-disciplinary

(photograph : Alice Posiere)

Conference: “EAC and cultural rights: convergences to be identified and implemented”

Social action

Creativity is in my opinion a powerful factor of personal and social construction. Thus social action through audiovisual creative projects seems (…)

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is the founder of a psychoanalysis rooted in language. His influence was considerable. His approach to psychology is (…)

Light

“Light” is a word of great richness, with a multiple and unsuspected history, very diverse depending on the culture. It is as much symbolic and (…)

Digital

What is “digital”? Etymologically (17th Century), it is what has to do with numbers and their calculation. But since the advent of computers in (…)

Polyamory

Polyamory, polyfidelity, free love, plural loves, open relationships... These terms refer to free and sincere love relationships. The project is (…)

Hare

(image generated by artificial intelligence Ideogram)

Earth

Célestin Freinet

Célestin Freinet (1896-1966), the inventor of “active pedagogy” and the “new school”, is the pedagogue and theorist who has best combined (…)

Cultural Rights

The “cultural rights”, which derive from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are a concept developed and defended by researchers, (…)

Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898, 1972) was a genius engraver, who drew mathematical paradoxes, impossible constructions such as the Möbius ribbon or (…)

Richard Texier

Richard Texier is a painter, sculptor, writer and filmmaker. His works and his vision are part of an open and free animist philosophy. He produces (…)

Karine Saporta

Photographie : Karine Saporta.

Projection

The word “projection” literally means the action of “throwing forward”. By extension, since the XIVth Century, it means the action of throwing out (…)

Superimposition

Superimposition, or “multi-exposure” consisted, at the time of photographic film, of putting the same film several times in a row back into the (…)

Accident

The accident is both the loss, the damage, but also the potential for a change of direction, an enrichment, despite what is no longer there. Once (…)

Medicine

Medicine is a body of knowledge, techniques and practices that aim to maintain health, prevent, diagnose and treat disease and injury. It is (…)

Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon (1916-2001) is an American scientist, who worked, among others with Alan Turing, to design the foundations of computer science. He (…)

Hippolyte Labourdette

Hippolyte Labourdette (1999-2022) was my child. His life was so short and so rich. It is unthinkable, illogical even, that he should be no more, (…)

Window

A window is an opening. This opening is mainly considered in the architectural sense, but it is also psychological, symbolic, historical, (…)

John Dewey

John Dewey (1859-1952), an American pragmatist philosopher, who placed experience as a central axis in the construction of thought and democracy, (…)

Feminism

Here is my definition of feminism, from my place as a man: it is for me a movement of thought and action for equal rights between women and men, (…)

Autobiography

Autobiography is a very old literary genre, even though it was named as such in the 18th century. It is about sharing a narrative of oneself, of (…)

Work

Do you know the true etymology of the word “work” (“travail” in french)?It is not tripallium (torture) as it is believed. In reality it is (…)

Roger Odin

Roger Odin (1939-2023) was a leading film theorist and semiologist, who contributed to a rigorous scientific understanding of cinematic forms. He (…)

Abstraction

Abstraction is a philosophical, artistic, computer and psychological concept. In psychology, it is the ability to mentally construct conceptual (…)

Classical music

The term “classical music”, emblematic of a symbolic hierarchy in musical genres, has, paradoxically, no very precise definition. It is Western (…)

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), mainly known as a pious philosopher and theologian, was also a mathematician and physicist. In 1645, he invented the (…)

Zebra

The zebra... it seems to be just an animal, but it’s actually a theme. Do you know the particularity of people called zebras? Here are some films, (…)

Church

Church: this is both the place of assembly, generally devoted to religious worship, and the human assembly itself, and by extension in (…)

Construction site

(the photograph displayed and the installation are by Myriam Drosne)

Serge Tisseron

Serge Tisseron is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, specialist in images and new technologies. He is a great popularizer and inventor of essential (…)

Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) is considered the father of “optical art”. These are abstract creations, based on the illusion of depth and movement, (…)

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is considered as the first programmer in the history of computer science, even before the existence of this discipline. (…)

Tree

The tree, a perennial plant, is much more mobile than we think. It is very strong to approach a tree. This life form runs through a number of my (…)

Olivier Houdé

Olivier Houdé is a French psychologist and researcher specializing in cognitive development. He has studied in detail the mechanisms of cognitive (…)

Pocket Films

“Pocket Films” was originally the name of a festival, the Pocket Films Festival, born in 2005, when cameras appeared in mobile phones. I conceived (…)

Colour

Colour is a matter of psychology, physiology, neurobiology, chemistry, physics, art, philosophy... This notion operates at the heart of some of my (…)

Sledge

Image generated by Dall-E on January 16, 2023.

ROSEBUD 2022, the end of cinema

Oblivion

Memory failure, involving either acquired knowledge or skills or memories; forgetfulness.

Maëlla Mickaëlle

Maëlla Mickaëlle is a multidisciplinary artist working between dance and image. A filmmaker, multimedia author, video artist, dancer and musician, (…)

Demonstration

The demonstration is an act of declaration of existence, individual or collective. We know about public events, whether they are cultural, (…)

SPIP

SPIP (Système de Publication Pour l’Internet) is an “engine” for creating websites, known as a “CMS” (Content Management System). SPIP is free, (…)

Saint George

Painting by Paolo Uccello: Saint George slaying the dragon (c. 1456).

Us

(photo : DR)

Infra

Health

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. It is not limited to the absence of disease or injury, but also includes the (…)

Pikachu

Drawing by Hassan, 7, from Les Lilas (Seine Saint-Denis).

Lockdown

What has been termed “lockdown” is the situation in February-March-April-May 2020 when a very large proportion of human beings on earth were (…)

Olivier Maurel

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