All publications

Here you’ll find all the publications on this website, sorted by date, starting with the most recent.

Writing on the table

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (6’02s, 2023).
The surface of our gestures is our writing. And our diverse writings are in dialogue.

5 November 2023

The celestial garden photographed

Series of 60 photographs of a danced garden.
The music of nature, the music of the act of cultivating, the music of our movements, the music of looking at and listening to others... the interweaving of (…)

5 November 2023

For contemplative cinema

Theoretical opening of the definition of cinema
What is cinema? This question, posed by André Bazin in the 1950s, is, in my view, a very important one. Cinema, like any other art form, always deserves to have its (…)

4 November 2023

Sway your gaze

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (2’11s, 2023).
The impression of a pendulum movement gradually transforms the visitor himself into a pendulum.Hi Benoît,I like the Vaginophallus video but it needs a little (…)

4 November 2023

Looking for the horizon

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (3’08s, 2023).
Seeing through the eyes of others, the world becomes different, unpredictable. Reframing towards the future.

4 November 2023

The archipelago of green islands

Series of 45 oceanic photographs.
Satellites out of tune, agreeing to spark the imagination.

29 October 2023

I see Claire

Series of 6 photographs facing the light.
Touching the invisible, what if we tried?Photographs made in 2017 with Mélanie L.

28 October 2023

Figures

Série de 36 photographies au bûcher.
Se faisant face dans l’affront, l’ombre et la lumière se toisent, s’envisagent, et dansent leur danse de mort. Elles circonvolent à en perdre haleine, croyant (…)

23 octobre 2023

Engraved surface

Series of 55 engraved photographs.
What remains is the negative, the opposite, the trace in oneself of the presence of the other, now absent.It’s disturbing to me that the word “gravé” translates as (…)

22 October 2023

“On the ineffectiveness of our works in real life”.

Commentary on the text by Eva Doumbia & Kader Attia (2023).
In July 2023, visual artist Kader Attia and director Eva Doumba published a text (in Analyse Opinion Critique) in response to the youth “riots” that followed the (…)

20 October 2023

Artistic creation in a digital environment

Commentary on the report commissioned by DRAC Bretagne (August 2023).
A study on the subject of digital and artistic creation reveals, through its unquestioned biases, the unconscious desire not to move the lines of the cultural (…)

19 October 2023

Website: Artistic and digital practices for young people

Web resource platform for Act’art (Seine-et-Marne cultural agency).
Advice, development and support for the appropriation of a web resource platform for cultural professionals in the Seine-et-Marne department.The Act’art (…)

17 October 2023

Design of a professional day on “Artistic and digital practices for young people”

Act’art, artistic and cultural action in Seine-et-Marne.
As part of its mission to promote collective intelligence by facilitating local think tanks, Act’art asked Benoît Labourdette to design, co-construct and co-host a (…)

17 October 2023

Digital technology, a tool for mediation and cultural democracy

Webinar on Monday, October 9, 2023 from 10am to 1pm.
Restitution of the “Digital Workshops” project by Cultures du Cœur and Benoît Labourdette Production, offered as part of the Été culturel program with the support of (…)

9 October 2023

Where Away Tomorrow

Piano, composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (1’34s, 2023).
Signing with our soul, as soon as our fingers touch an out-of-tune keyboard.

30 September 2023

Video chaptering: Online summary of the Meetings on participative creation 2022

Théâtre de la Poudrerie / observatory of cultural policies.
Accompaniment in the collection of media and their editorialization, then realization of the web page of the “deliverable” of the third edition of the biennial of the (…)

12 September 2023

A conversation with Benoît Labourdette

Interview with Benoît Labourdette by Roger Odin for Bianco e nero magazine (2010).
The film theorist Roger Odin (1939-2023) saw in the arrival of video in cell phones “for the first time in the history of cinema, the establishment of cinematic (…)

9 September 2023

Roger Odin

Musique instrumentale, 2023, par Benoît Labourdette (2’32s).
Un morceau au souffle fragile, que je joue pour te rendre hommage, ami qui vient de partir.

6 septembre 2023

Fondation Afnic: films presenting winning projects 2022

5 films directed by Benoît Labourdette.
Short films presenting a selection of projects supported by the Afnic Foundation for Digital Solidarity in 2022, for broadcast on social networks and project (…)

4 September 2023

Sleeping in Paris

Instrumental music played on the Korg Zenology synthesizer (3’16s, 2023).
We try to clear our minds, to calm ourselves down, to face the drama. And then sometimes, even when we get carried away, our heart beats too fast.Music from the (…)

3 September 2023

Sleeping in Paris

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’41s, 2023).
Finding meaning in life, despite its most terrible tragedies

3 September 2023

ChatGPT as an empathetic social interlocutor

Therapeutic perspectives based on an experiment.
As part of the cultural tour in the social field “La machine à voyager dans le futur”, I proposed, among other things, dialogues with ChatGPT, which proved effective (…)

1 September 2023

OPC Media: “What if we changed our posture?”

How can we learn to consider the richness of teenage digital practices and avoid giving in to preconceived ideas?
How can we learn to consider the richness of teenagers’ digital practices and not give in to preconceived ideas? For Benoît Labourdette, if we want to design cultural (…)

31 August 2023

Jean-Baptiste Mathieu’s website, author-director

A structure and ergonomics adapted to the specific needs of cinematography.
Attempt to create the “ideal” website for a filmmaker:www.jeanbaptistemathieu.fr.(website update in 2023)Jean-Baptiste Mathieu is a prolific director, who has (…)

30 August 2023

Blown river

Instrumental music, 2023, by Benoît Labourdette (2’34s). Played on Roland SRX World synthesizer.
This small group of exhausted fasters by the river awkwardly try to cheer themselves up with the music they improvise together.

21 August 2023

Virginie Houdet artist’s website

Conception, design and production of a visual artist’s editorial and exhibition website.
A website that combines editorial flexibility with masterful graphic design.www.virginiehoudet.com Site update in 2023In 2023, i.e. eight years after the (…)

16 August 2023

Hall 1

Un film de Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2023).
Oser témoigner de ce que l’on a vu et vécu, c’est ainsi qu’on rend le monde meilleur.

12 août 2023

Hall 1

Musique instrumentale jouée avec le synthétiseur Korg electribe 2 (3’52s, 2023).
L’onde sinusoïdale filtrée ne filtre pas nos émotions nostalgiques.Musique du film « Hall 1 » (Benoît Labourdette, 3’52s, 2023).

12 août 2023

Spike proteins

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2023).
People who have stood up for the respect of humanity are always present, even to help those who had decried them.Directed, text, voice, image and music by Benoît (…)

9 August 2023

“The future machine” website

Design, production and animation of a resource site for the contents of a tour of creative workshops.
A website designed to implement cultural rights in form and content.“The machine to travel into the future” : www.ateliersnumeriques-culturesducœur.org/2023 (…)

7 August 2023

Believe in the future

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’21s, 2023).
When the future looks bleak, we turn to self-destruction.

2 August 2023

Here we lay a solid foundation

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’46s, silent, 2023).
To be a player on the other side of the necessary change in the world.

17 July 2023

Cultural summer 2023 with Cultures du coeur: “The machine that travels into the future”

Account of the first workshop of a tour of digital creation workshops in the social field.
During the summer of 2023, Cultures du cœur is proposing to eight social structures in France that their beneficiaries participate in the creation of collective and (…)

12 July 2023

Short Experimental Film Fest - Lyon

Projection organisée par Denize Araujo et Claudia Lambach.
Programme international d’œuvres cinématographiques expérimentales, sélectionnées par Denize Araujo et Claudia Lambach de l’Université Tuiuti do Paraná (Brésil). (…)

12 juillet 2023

Ciné balade in Ivry-sur-Seine

Travelling workshop-projection, July 21, 2023 at 10pm.
A new way to experience cinema and Ivry differently.This summer, become a programmer!The principle : Le Luxy invites you to attend three workshops led by Benoît (…)

11 July 2023

Insolation

70 photographies en chambre d’insolation.
De l’insolence des objets qui nous regardent, toujours d’en haut ; de la condescendance des miroirs, qui ne réfléchissent que ce qu’ils veulent ; de l’oubli de la (…)

9 juillet 2023

A fixed point (thought 383)

Music based on real sounds (2’15s, 2023).
To be dissatisfied with one’s lot, and to become the earth.

19 June 2023

A fixed point (thought 383)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’15s, 2023).
How do we know if we’re right or if the other guy is right?In the staging of this film, the text appears as a single piece. This may seem simplistic. It’s meant (…)

19 June 2023

The true nature (thought 426)

Granular and concret music, by Benoît Labourdette (2’, 2023).
A path through the lumps of life.Music from the film « The true nature (thought 426) » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’, 2023).

18 June 2023

The true nature (thought 426)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’, 2023).
Nature is a computer.If we think, in philosophical depth, of what nature is, with the DNA code that programs the living, this code itself being modulated by the (…)

18 June 2023

Itinéraire bis, the path of cultural rights

Action research conducted by the MPAA (Paris).
Accompaniment in the animation, production of traces and fabrication of the web platform resources of the research-action “Itinéraire bis, chemin des droits (…)

9 June 2023

Alchemical video mapping performance

Saturday, June 3, 2023. As part of Nuit Blanche 2023. By Isabel Bertelot, Benoît Labourdette and “Les Manoirs”.
When in the night, alive with reminiscences of the female silent cinema, lights are born in the pictorial darkness, and letters and moving words emerge, composed as (…)

3 June 2023

The carrots are cooked

Fragments-images
In a small Thai restaurant, two retired women face each other, seated at a small table, in front of a small street window. Another piece of writing in a shopping (…)

30 May 2023

Eruption of the inner sun

Series of 40 burning photographs.
When all of a sudden its own energy melts, destroying everything, even souls, in its path.

20 May 2023

Skilled children

Fragments-images
Eight fifth-grade children in a small bucolic school, to whom I gave the cameras, tape recorders, responsibility and autonomy to create films. Today, we are (…)

17 May 2023

Smallest lie

Fragments-images
A creative workshop session in a high school class in the Paris suburbs. I bring a lot of material. I transform the space so that the class becomes an animation (…)

15 May 2023

Stretched building

Series of 25 fluid photographs.
With half-closed eyes and a vertical movement of the head, an ordinary building is transformed into a playground for the imagination.

14 May 2023

Anxiety disorders

Fragments-images
A man is sitting in the Indian restaurant. He says he is waiting for a woman. I see him from behind. His voice is high. We are in Paris. He asks the waiter, who does (…)

13 May 2023

Sound poetry creation workshops

Poets’ Spring Festival - Arthur Rimbaud’s house - House of Elsewhere (Charleville-Mézières).
As part of the Printemps des poètes festival, installed in Arthur Rimbaud’s house, at the suggestion of the museum team, I designed and ran sound poetry creation (…)

13 May 2023

Helping young people and professionals to speak out: “Cultures and youth policies” national meeting

Observatory of Cultural Policies / Villeurbanne (TNP, May 11 & 12, 2023).
As part of the Rencontres nationales “Cultures et politiques de la jeunesse” (“Cultures and youth policies”), which brought the year of the French Capital of Culture (…)

13 May 2023