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

Oblivion

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

Jacques Lacan

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

Marie Ann Trân

Marie-Ann Trân is a singer-songwriter and stage director. She creates multidisciplinary artistic projects with her company Paris Concert. We (…)

Church

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

LED

Light-Emitting Diode.

Hare

(image generated by artificial intelligence Ideogram)

Earth

Fire

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

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 (…)

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, (…)

Serge Tisseron

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

Myriam Drosne

Myriam Drosne is a photographer, visual artist and costume designer. She works on memory and the permeability between places and inhabitants. She (…)

Saint George

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

Orc (2013)

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, (…)

Transhumanism

The “transhumanism” consists in the will to “increase” the human by the machine. This may seem incongruous at first, but transhumanists develop a (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Experimental cinema

The Cinematograph (recording of animated photographic images then large projection, using the same camera) was invented in 1895 by the Lumière (…)

Paul Virilio

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

Romain Baujard

Romain Baujard is a filmmaker, photographer, musician and cartoonist. The look, the meeting, love, family, identity... are the symbols that we (…)

Roger Odin

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

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 (…)

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 (…)

The singularity

The “Technological Singularity”, commonly called “The Singularity”, is the hypothesis of a future tipping point, located between 2030 and 2040, (…)

SPIP

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

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 (…)

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, (…)

Karine Saporta

Photographie : Karine Saporta.

emmanuel vergès

emmanuel vergès (voluntarily without capital letters) is a cultural engineer and above all an explorer of “cultural democracy in a digital (…)

Demonstration

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

John Dewey

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

Michel Serres

(photo : DR)

Petite Poucette 2.0

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 (…)

Democracy

What is democracy all about? What guarantees freedom, equality and fraternity? Institutions, laws and voting are only part of it. In my opinion, (…)

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 (…)

Short film

“Short film” is a French legal term that refers to a film of less than 60 minutes (“short” corresponding to the length of the film, less than 1600 (…)

Window

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

Polyamory

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

Medicine

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

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 (…)

Complotist

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

Colour

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

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 (…)

Célestin Freinet

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

Diffusion

Photograph by Jeanne Paravert.

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 (…)

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, (…)

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 (…)

Projection

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

Pikachu

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

Relaxation

Relaxation is the state of physical and mental release that allows one to feel less tense and more calm. It can be achieved through relaxation (…)

HTML

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

Panorama

The “Panorama” was one of the great attractions of the 19th century: in large circular halls (the Rond Point theater in Paris, for example, was a (…)

Escher

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

Super 8

“Super 8” is a film format, launched by Kodak in 1965. It was the main format of amateur cinema, since its launch, until the democratization of (…)

Classical music

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

Abstraction

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

Construction site

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

Olivier Houdé

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century, working in depth on the lyricism of life. An Austrian, he (…)

Lamp

(photograph : Bénédicte Loyen)

Maëlla Mickaëlle

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