Voice-over is often discouraged in academic scriptwriting textbooks, which focus on the dramatic situation rather than on an interiority considered potentially boring. And yet, many films, and even “mainstream products”, successfully use (...)

Two animated films making workshops (filmed and commented drawings) for electric and gas industry workers on the theme of work.As part of its cultural activities, the Caisse Centrale d’Activites Sociales (the EDF works council) questions itself (...)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2000, 1h03 ’).

SynopsisOn digital images digitally reworked where fugitive anonymous silhouettes goes on, a poetic monologue book a disenchanted vision of ghostly ballet of modern life. (Forum des Images)

Loop video by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2013).

People sitting, working in a small office, with the background the street behind the window. The superposition of four times by subtracting the pixels can give, if you look at a single character, an opening on the “depth” of the person, thus (...)

Public presentation of the film’s creative process “Tell me LED” (Benoît Labourdette, 2015, 65 minutes), Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 16h. The Méliès Cinema (12 Place Jean Jaurès - 93100 Montreuil - France). Free entry.The Documentary Film meetings (...)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’42s, 2018).

Work, potential factor of emancipation that can carry in itself its own reversal.

In collective work, paradoxically, it is when one does not feel reassured that one works best. But how does it work?When we prepare for a job that involves the collective (leading a meeting, training, cultural action, giving a lecture, a (...)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’11s, 2018).

When a roll of scotch revolts.

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’16s, 2011).

A meeting, like a thousand other meetings. No, it is your meeting.

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’44s, 2018).

Life is freedom and love.

Writing workshop based around photographs. This project was part of the 8th international film festival Filmer le travail in the city of Poitiers and was supported by the CCAS, the works council of EDF.The workshop took place on the 17th and (...)

“The singularity” is a collaborative transmedia project, launched in 2016 by Benoît Labourdette. Around a thematic spine, over a long period of time (several years), film creations, theatrical forms, exhibitions, creative workshops in various (...)

As part of the “Fine Speaker” week at the House of steelworkers in January 2014, the “Homes Radio” (community radio done by young people in insertion) proposed a program about the « night journey » I proposed.Link to the web page of the (...)

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a philosopher, engineer and mathematician of genius. Among other major scientific and philosophical advances, he invented and built the first mechanical calculating machine in 1645, thus laying the concrete (...)

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