All themes

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

Jacques Lacan

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

Autobiography

Autobiography is a very old literary genre, even though it was named as such in the 18th century. It is about sharing a narrative of oneself, of (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Work

Do you know the true etymology of the word “work” (“travail” in french)?It is not tripallium (torture) as it is believed. In reality it is (…)

Oblivion

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

Roger Odin

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

HTML

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

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

Marie Ann Trân

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

Diffusion

Photograph by Jeanne Paravert.

Myriam Drosne

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

Cultural Rights

The “cultural rights”, which derive from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are a concept developed and defended by researchers, (…)

Escher

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

Polyamory

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

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 (…)

Projection

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

Classical music

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

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 (…)

John Dewey

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

Lamp

(photograph : Bénédicte Loyen)

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is considered as the first programmer in the history of computer science, even before the existence of this discipline. (…)

Serge Tisseron

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

Experimental cinema

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

Window

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

Paul Virilio

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

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 (…)

Olivier Houdé

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

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 (…)

Social action

Creativity is in my opinion a powerful factor of personal and social construction. Thus social action through audiovisual creative projects seems (…)

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 (…)

emmanuel vergès

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

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 (…)

Saint George

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

Abstraction

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

Telephone number

(photo : DR)

Paris Yellow Pages

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, (…)

Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon (1916-2001) is an American scientist, who worked, among others with Alan Turing, to design the foundations of computer science. He (…)

Digital

What is “digital”? Etymologically (17th Century), it is what has to do with numbers and their calculation. But since the advent of computers in (…)

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, (…)

Church

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

Karine Saporta

Photographie : Karine Saporta.

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 (…)

Maëlla Mickaëlle

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

Célestin Freinet

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

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 (…)

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, (…)

Demonstration

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

SPIP

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

Hare

(image generated by artificial intelligence Ideogram)

Complotist

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

Sledge

Image generated by Dall-E on January 16, 2023.

ROSEBUD 2022, the end of cinema

Romain Baujard

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

LED

Light-Emitting Diode.

Fire

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

Colour

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