Saint-Lô’s Library : Bibliobox

Diffusion of a selection of short films by Benoît Labourdette in the Bibliobox of the Saint-Lô’s Library.To know more :http://mediatheque.saint-lo.fr/even... Announcement on Saint-Lô’s Library websiteCome to discover our Bibliobox!A (...)

Everyone is talented, I realize that all the time when I get people to do things.

What makes the difference between being talented and doing creative work is the fact of going to the end of things, producing, sharing.

When young people get involved

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’08s, silent, 2019).

Younger generations are always more engaged than we think.

To make films without projecting stakes and expectations of “earning a living” or whatever. To give them a place.

To make DVDs of my films, and to put them on sale on the site. Not to “believe” that it will be a totality. It’s my deep desire to share something with others. And I have to give a place to this desire. So I must have no other expectation than (...)

I have to make a singular cinema, with my means.

It is my greatest amibition. Cf. Varda or Rohmer. It is not to want to make “commercial” cinema, which fits into a flow, it is not to be a businessman, it is to be an artist, to propose and dig a universe, in which I lead people to discover. (...)

Flux

Work or mastery ?

Methodology of the productive action.

How do we achieve the best possible result in the work, in the construction? In my opinion, contrary to popular belief, it is not the search for greater mastery that is the best path. Concrete elements of method.When one has to produce an (...)

Sexuality #01

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2020).

Sexuality, that intimate space that we experience as natural and spontaneous, is in fact largely constructed by our culture. For more sexual fulfillment, a first exercise in deconstructing codes, in the sequel to Martin Page and his book (...)

It was good, yesterday, to feel that the students preferred that I play my films rather than another programming. The pleasure of discovering a universe.

Expanding

I don’t make films to please anyone, I make the films I have to make, I make the films I have to give to the world.

Because I have things, very important things, to say, to put into shape, that nobody else but me can put into shape.

Love letters

Piracy: an unknown blessing for the audiovisual sector

Legal, historical, technological, economic and political elements.

“Piracy is a danger for creation, infringers must be punished”: this is the commonly accepted discourse, which directs points of view, regulatory and professional choices. And yet, the very people who hold this discourse contradict it in their (...)

3^rd Castres Short Film Festival: participative film

Study day, during which I presented the first version of the film The unconscious actors. Participative projection. A participatory filmThe proposal I made to those present was, after the film was broadcast, to film, with the same phone, or (...)

MPAA: Films for the 10^th anniversary of the House of Amateur Artistic Practices

Five films to affirm the identity of a Parisian cultural institution, MPAA (House of Amateur Artistic Practices). House of Amateur Artistic Practices (MPAA)Places for musical, theatrical and artistic rehearsals in the broad sense of the (...)

Anthem

Moonlight

By my window: Film what you see through a window in your home, and tell about an important memory.

Video platform

On 1 April 2020, during the period of confinement in France, I opened the video contribution platform www.parmafenetre.fr..Following the numerous feedbacks I received, creating these films, as much as watching them, did a lot of good to (...)

Towards the cultural experience

Essay, by Emmanuel Vergès

In the construction of cultural proposals, focus attention on the lived and shared experience. Short essay on the philosophy of action and the function of art.Benoît Labourdette’s work, between By my window and street projections, makes me (...)

The man is wrong

Desire

Best practices for putting videos online

How to put a video online? What are the technical, patrimonial, practical, legal issues? Methodological tools for a professional and structured approach to video on the web.The concepts and methodologies presented in this article, although (...)