All publications

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Hippolyte

Composé et interprété par Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2025).
J’ose parler de toi en public.

1er février 2025

A web platform for collective intelligence

Support collective action with a specific digital tool.
Discovering the Power of a Web Platform Specifically Designed for Collective Intelligence Contribution, Through a Concrete Example. A Digital Solution to Overcome the (…)

31 January 2025

Exchanges in pairs

To give everyone a voice.
A collective intelligence exercise that stimulates thinking and listening. Working in pairs, each participant builds his or her own argument on a given topic, (…)

30 January 2025

Book synthesis

Boosting professional training in collective intelligence.
How to use collective intelligence in professional training in a way that is not anecdotal but enriches the subject in depth? Bringing a moment of collective (…)

29 January 2025

The importance of expression

Identifying an essential path to emancipation.
Expression, often overlooked, is a key element for individual and collective emancipation. By providing a legitimate framework, appropriate tools, and permission to (…)

28 January 2025

Reception

Interaction practice exercise.
An activity to explore welcoming and interaction: each person alternates between welcoming and being welcomed, experiences strong emotions, and discovers group (…)

27 January 2025

Secret tips

In-depth mutual enrichment.
A powerful exercise to nurture creativity and collaboration: each participant presents a project or idea in 3 minutes, then receives intimate, written advice from the (…)

26 January 2025

Collective bibliography

An encounter with oneself through books.
This activity is very useful at the beginning of meetings, gatherings, or workdays. The idea is to bring a number of books that address the topic being worked on, or (…)

25 January 2025

Scriptwriting and artificial intelligence: towards new subjects?

Anthropology of contemporary writing.
Since ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI has been transforming our ways of creating and thinking. These technologies, linked to artistic forms, are reshaping our (…)

25 January 2025

Sit Stand

Playfully identifying the links between participants.
Sit Stand, a playful and profound exercise to identify the concept of community. The “Sit Stand” exercise is often presented as an icebreaker, meaning an activity (…)

24 January 2025

Cultural rights and professional postures

Tools for the concrete implementation of cultural rights.
Cultural rights, stemming from the Fribourg Declaration (2007), represent a major advancement for cultural democracy. However, their practical implementation remains (…)

23 January 2025

La réinvention de la séance collective de cinéma sur TikTok

Renaissance spontanée du partage de l’art comme humanisme.
Contrairement à l’idée que les réseaux sociaux isolent, ils réinventent des moments de partage collectif, comme la séance de cinéma. Sur TikTok, Twitch ou YouTube, (…)

22 janvier 2025

Scenario and psychology

Overcoming the psychologization of characters.
Screenwriting often relies on the psychological depth of characters to evoke emotion and foster audience identification. But what if this approach, while relevant, (…)

21 January 2025

Viewer freedom

For an ethics of the relationship between film and viewer.
Screenwriting often relies on narrative mastery to control the viewer’s emotions. Yet this quest for control can conflict with an ethic of viewer freedom. Why not (…)

20 January 2025

Alternating day and night

For organic scenarios.
As a filmmaker, I often wonder what makes a film organic and captivating. The alternation between day and night, a natural rhythm of our existence, is a powerful tool (…)

19 January 2025

H (2025)

Album musical
Mon fils Hippolyte a décidé de partir de la vie, il y a plus de deux ans. J’ai acheté un instrument Suzuki Omnichord, difficile à trouver, dont je rêvais depuis (…)

19 janvier 2025

Scenario and architecture

An essential underlying structure.
Cinema, often perceived as an art of image and sound, is deeply connected to architecture. Through spaces, movements, and scales, it shapes immersive environments. (…)

18 January 2025

H

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’39s, 2025).
How to live with space left empty?

17 January 2025

Our emotions as the source of the scenario

Encouragement to take risks in writing.
A captivating screenplay draws from the author’s lived emotions. By exploring their own fears, joys, or sorrows, the writer creates authentic and powerful situations (…)

16 January 2025

Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.

JE-DIS de la FEMS 2025 #1
A richly illustrated webinar on the subject of audiovisuals in museums, from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web. Moderated by Benoît (…)

16 January 2025

Serendipity and screenwriting

Disorganize the writing.
A screenplay, structured and the result of extensive work, is the visible part of an iceberg.Serendipity, the art of discovering the essential by chance, (…)

15 January 2025

New Media Professional Training (ESRA)

Practice to prepare for tomorrow’s challenges.
A Sector Linked to InnovationThe ESRA, a private film school established in 1972, also offers professional training programs. I led a session on new media as part (…)

15 January 2025

Scenario ontology, part 1

Isn’t screenwriting the opposite of cinema?
Cinema, according to André Bazin, captures reality through mechanical recording, creating a fascinating trace of what has existed. In contrast, the screenplay, (…)

14 January 2025

Action or information?

A dialectic of pedagogy.
Educational approaches can take two paths: information (transmission of knowledge) and action (lived experiences). These two complementary approaches engage the (…)

13 January 2025

Philosophy and pedagogy

For a profound practice of pedagogy.
Philosophy and pedagogy are deeply interconnected, as our worldview influences our educational approach. If we consider that humans are intrinsically eager to learn, (…)

12 January 2025

The path of the person

Attention to others as a pedagogical principle.
In an educational context, the non-participation of learners does not always indicate disinterest. By focusing on their individual progress rather than the success of (…)

11 January 2025

Is nature a computer system?

Hypothesis for a digital naturalism.
The philosopher Mark Alizart, in “Celestial Computing” (2017), explores the idea that nature is computing, bringing together the living (DNA, genetic code) and the (…)

10 January 2025

Fear, a learning inhibitor

Elements of neuroscience.
Learning is about creating new neural connections, which requires resisting reflexive thinking, activated in situations of danger or stress. To learn, a trusting (…)

9 January 2025

The art of pitching

A method for building film projects.
“Pitching” is most often understood as the act of summarizing one’s project in a very concise manner, with the goal of convincing a partner to finance it, participate (…)

8 January 2025

What is a scenario?

Introduction to a philosophical vision of a technical and artistic object.
The screenplay, traditionally seen as a technical tool of cinema, is in reality a complex concept that deserves to be questioned in its essence. Both a practical (…)

8 January 2025

The exhibition scene

Constraint or opportunity?
The exposition scene in a film or series is a key element that provides the audience with the necessary information to understand the story, characters, and stakes. (…)

7 January 2025

Mastering suspense

Using Alfred Hitchcock’s method.
The proper application of suspense techniques allows for the creation of a strong bond between the viewer and the film. I will present the method described by Alfred (…)

6 January 2025

The elsewhere of the in-itself

Conceptual and methodological proposal for complementarities between in situ and remote cultural projects.
The Covid-19 crisis revealed the potential of remote cultural mediation, but it seems that the public cultural sector has largely returned to focusing on physical (…)

5 January 2025

“Donotdo”

Methodological concept of setting the world in motion.
The neologism “donotdo”, which I develop here, describes the capacity we have to set the world in motion at great depth, to transform it in a way that is far more (…)

4 January 2025

Drawing for writing

Technique for freeing the brain.
Drawing to write: a key to unlocking writing. Drawing, often perceived as difficult, frees the mind and offers a new perspective. By sketching shapes, cards or (…)

3 January 2025

The work of art in the age of digital mediation

Conceptual update of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935).
During an experiment in artistic mediation integrating digital techniques, it became clear to me that the typologies of status and function of artistic works that (…)

2 January 2025

The sound of the other

Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’26s, 2025).
These words from twenty years ago resonate in my soul today.

1 January 2025

Electricity in the air

Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2024).
It’s not quiet at all, everyone’s passing in all directions, when you’d like it to be the other way round; you can’t get away from it. And if even the sea gets involved.

27 December 2024

Happy funeral

Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’53s, 2024).
They’re there, the memories, they overwhelm me; I try to lighten up, but I can’t pretend; and yet the desire to live... what a paradox! A tribute to your life, (…)

24 December 2024

A tear of fatigue at Gare d’Austerlitz

Series of 217 photographs in rotation.
We turn, I turn on myself, and we don’t look at anything, I let myself be told.How much time is missing between each frame? What is its nature? Is it this missing (…)

23 December 2024

Selected excerpts on Artificial Intelligence

Bibliographic sharing.
Artificial Intelligence has been a hot topic in the general public and in organizations ever since ChatGPT, a powerful tool for generating structured text from a (…)

18 December 2024

“Artificial Intelligence: stop or yet?” - Workshop for the creation of an exhibition

Master 2 Audiovisual and Digital Media - Grenoble Alpes University.
Facilitated a multimedia workshop to help a group of students take an in-depth look at the challenges of Artificial Intelligence through their own expressions, (…)

27 November 2024

Forum des images: AI watch committee (2024-2025)

Co-design and facilitation of collective intelligence.
Co-conception and moderation by Benoît Labourdette of the “AI Watch Committee” launched by the Forum des images (2024-2025), using collective intelligence methods, to (…)

13 November 2024

Memory of sport in the Great War, participative creation of a photographic exhibition

Musée de la Grande Guerre de Meaux, summer 2024.
During three weeks in the summer of 2024, the Musée de la Grande Guerre in invited the public, including young people, groups, and adults, to participate in the (…)

11 November 2024

Create your own film about imaginary disasters

Creative prevention workshop and screening-debate, in Bègles (Bordeaux area).
No one wants to be confronted with a natural or technological disaster, yet it can happen in our lives. If we prepare ourselves for this eventuality, our attitudes, (…)

5 October 2024

All solutions are in nature

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’06s, 2024).
To empathize with the non-human, to be one, beyond oneself.

5 October 2024

Emergency kit

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’15s, 2024).
Small gestures that can save.

5 October 2024

Soap Station

Composé et interprété par Benoît Labourdette (2’52s, 2024).
Aucun savon n’a été trouvé sur le sol de la Gare du Nord, après que Pierre-Jean ait glissé, dit-il sur un savon placé là avec malveillance par un chien, ou par une (…)

1er octobre 2024

Self-portrait in watermark

Series of 55 facing photographs.
I am discovering myself in a changing mirror.

28 September 2024

Eastern France station at 7:30 am

Stethoscope
I’m twenty minutes early. It’s a bit cold, but not too cold. Do I wait inside the station, a bit crowded with all those people who got up early, or do I wait outside, (…)

28 September 2024