Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire : “The mutations of cinema”

Anthropologies of cinematographic devices, by Jean-Louis Comolli, Benoît Labourdette and Vincent Sorrel.The Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire offer as part of their 27th one-day seminar, 20 August 2015: “The mutations of cinema”. (...)

Meudon’s newspaper : “Benoît Labourdette receives first prize”

Article from the municipal newspaper of the city of Meudon (France, November 1992), on the prize awarded for the shooting of Benoît Labourdette’s first feature film, named “Sebastien’s business” in the article, but whose final title was “Head (...)

T2JV : Portrait of Benoît Labourdette

Benoît Labourdette’s video interview about the “Pocket Films” workshops, as part of the project Vitrolles échangeur..

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 (...)

MA Scène nationale Montbéliard: “Joseph”, a travelling film by Joseph Morder

A film designed to be screened on the city walls on a travelling basis.Yannick Marzin, director of the Scène nationale de Montbéliard, proposed to the filmmaker Joseph Morder and myself to design together a travelling film: based on a visit (...)

AXA / AGD Corporate Meeting 2012 : Organisation of production, post-production and distribution

AXA for its international distant insurance AGD (France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Japan, Korea) , needed to create momentum under its “Corporate meeting” in 2012 (international meeting of teams), a dynamic movie to start (...)

Montpellier III University : Transmedia strategies, encoding and creativity

5 day course : technical basis, strategy and creativity for new media.The students of the “Licence Pro audiovisual designer director” (University Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3 - France) have a multidisciplinary profile, both artistic and (...)

Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”

The first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a reference. Free download.Download the complete book.I wrote this book to make it a concrete guide, technical as of shooting and (...)

MOOC Digital Media Paris : “Image and Mobility”

The MOOC of the city of Paris on digital media, with Benoît Labourdette.The City of Paris launched “MOOC Digital Media Paris”, of which I am one of the first responders, with Dominique Cardon and ORLAN.This MOOC is built by EPSAA (Higher (...)

Do not hesitate to build narratives, based on images already shot.

I have the right to systematize the principle a bit. Of course, there have been the few explicit shorts, where you do it as a game, which is anecdotal, like the one where the director tells people what to do.But what is recurrent, in almost (...)

Le Journal de la Haute-Marne : “A director at the chapel of the Jesuit”

Report of the “Journal de Haute Marn”e during the filming of the documentary « Lonelies of the streets ». Published Wednesday, February 24, 2016. A director at the chapel of the JesuitBenoît Labourdette, director, came to Chaumont last week. (...)

There is no need to film a subject, filming is the subject.

Because to film is to produce an encounter, and it is the encounter that gives life.

It’s like turning on a faucet, and letting it run, it’s going to run harder and harder, and better and better.