“A work of art is the proposal of a world.”

Quote from Jean-Claude Collot (1947).

Arcal : teaser of the opera “The Cunning Little Vixen”

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’44s, 2016).

Making the teaser of the opera “The Cunning Little Vixen” (production Arcal, directed by Louise Moaty). March 2016.We designed, with the stage director Louise Moaty, the live video stage device of this opera. Logically, the Arcal, producer (...)

Pompidou Center : performance for six hands and a drone

30-minute performance with a drone, for a filmmaker, a performer and a composer. Benoît Labourdette, Gabriel Beckinger, Philip Griffiths.The next weekend, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December, at 15h and 16h at the Pompidou Center (Paris), (...)

Symposium : Attention, machine! Artistic Practices and Media Recycling

Communication by Benoît Labourdette to listen (25 minutes) on the stage use of live contributions from unknown users. As part of the symposium “Attention, machine!”. February 7,2018. This symposium organised by the Litt&Arts UMR of the (...)

“Hello my beautiful”, transmedia play

Video capture of a collective creation directed by Benoît Labourdette. Played on March 26, 2016 at the CNSAD (15 minutes).

“Today, almost everyone takes the stage on digital networks, takes a presence in the gaze of others by self-portraits interposed. What about the place of our lives? What can the theater stage, representation, and poetic gesture put into motion (...)

Rung

Video creation by Benoît Labourdette (3’36s, 2014).

Portions of a building, which transform the bodies of humans who cross.

Trafik Festival 2019: collaborative audiovisual creation event

A high level cultural event, based on the creativity of the participants: making films from commented photographs, broadcast at the time, which invite the spectators to contribute to it.. The projectIn November 2019, as part of the Festival (...)

Opera “The little cunning vixen” : video installation

We designed, me and the stage director Louise Moaty, a video installation to shoot live on stage of the opera “The cunning little vixen”, produced by the Arcal, released January 15, 2016 at the Maison de la Musique in Nanterre (France), on tour (...)

People’s National Theatre

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2014).

People emerged from the collective memory.

“I hate institutionalized boredom.”

Quote from Diden Oumer (1941-2017).

Emergency

Suite

It happened far from home

Collective film (4’38s, 2019).

When objects also decide to tackle their problems with digital technology.

Opéra Comique / CNCS: Completion of three films for exhibition and the web

Production of three unique films for a very singular exhibition.Opéra Comique and Stage Costume National Center proposed an exhibition of 7 February May 25, 2015, “The Opéra Comique and its treasures.” Curator: Agnès Terrier. Designer: Macha (...)

Little Isabelle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’54s, silent, 2019, pseudonym: Marc Z.).

Social networks benefit from everything, even human tragedies.

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 (...)

Volcano

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’42s, 2015).

From the sky comes a building, dedicated to the dream.

OFF Film Festival : meeting about voice-over and collective film production

As part of the OFF Film Festival of autobiographical film in Olonne-sur-mer, on November 20, 2016, I suggested a thought and animated a moment of exchange on the theme of the voice-over. Then I proposed making a “mental collective film” to the (...)

Mairie du 3e arrondissement / Paris - Soirée « Témoins de la déportation »

An exhibition “Witnesses of deportation” was proposed to the City Council of the 3rd district of Paris in April 2014.April 28, 2014, as part of the evening tribute to Charlotte Delbo, screening of the film « Spectra » by Benoît Labourdette, (...)

FrEE zonE

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2017).

The remembrance of a drama, and an unexpected confession.

Theater and life

Short reflexion on the definition of reality.

We differentiate between “real life” and theater, like reality and fiction. Understanding more finely the entanglement of the two can undoubtedly allow one to better touch one’s own “truth.”Protest against the separate idea we have of (...)

Saint-Denis

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’37s, 2016).

A place, where the memory of a tipping in life resides.

The rotunda

Series of 24 images.

Have you ever had a strange feeling when entering a theater? Just at the entrance? Remember that fleeting moment of confusion.

Exhibition “Présence André Malartre”, Town Hall of Caen

Screening of the film « The Captain Thanase » (documentary on the stage director André Malartre, co-directed by Martine Stora and Benoît Labourdette) as part of the exhibition, “Présence André Malartre” (City of Caen, November 2016-January (...)

OPC : The digital transition in professional and amateur cultural practices

Master 2 “Management of cultural projects” (Science Po Grenoble - OPC)

The digital practices of citizens are changing the meaning of cultural proposals, both public and private. The paradigm of access to culture has shifted and remains in motion. A training day to provide tools to consider cultural projects with (...)

Compagnie Louise Moaty : teaser of the musical show “This is not a dream”

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’36s, 2015).

Making the musical video teaser of “This is not a dream” (Louise Moaty and Alexei Lubimov). Magic between production of live images and modern music.

Captain Thanase

Film by Martine Stora and Benoît Labourdette (32’28s, 1995).

Meeting with André Malartre. The discovery of an inventor of theater.

Entrance 129

Video Creation by Benoît Labourdette (2’17s, 2014).

Enter somewhere. Not so simple...

Spectra

A film by Benoît Labourdette, in collaboration with Louise Moaty (3’59s, 2014).

Charlotte Delbo’s words emanate from human traces of people who were living there a few hours earlier.

We are not on the stage to be natural. The stage is a moment of ceremony.

Collective film shot in a movie theater

Creative participation method.

Giving a voice in a creative way to the spectators of a movie theater, before the screening of a film.I put this proposal into practice in the framework of the Feminist Film Festival of the city of Les Lilas in October 2022. I share the (...)