All publications

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

“Creation - Interview#1 with Benoît Labourdette” by Carole Contant

Videoconference interview (1h13’, 2023).
Benoît Labourdette explains in a practical and conceptual way his methods for creation and the pedagogical framework, based on a commentary on an example given by (…)

12 May 2023

Future fluids

Series of 35 technical photographs.
We draw on the skin of the world, to prepare the future underground fluid networks. One projects oneself into the underground. It is a poetic writing that ignores (…)

7 May 2023

In a cab

Fragments-images
Late at night. Under the rain. The car stops. I run under the ropes to get in. I say my first name, so that the driver can be sure. But it is obvious to him. I don’t (…)

7 May 2023

Bookstore

Fragments-images
In the morning, the bookseller and his employee “take stock” of the books on the tables. The ones that are often bought, the ones that need to be moved. The (…)

6 May 2023

Chromosome words

Series of 70 inked photographs.
Words that are life. Describe. Are. Self. Words that end up being planted like seeds. The ink that spins and flows, and the gaze that dares not. Words that slip. Gush (…)

3 May 2023

Slippery castle

Series of 70 spinning photographs.
Continued flight into the mental space of old films, in coal black. Eternal staircase, which makes feel the anguish of an ascending fall.

23 April 2023

At your jeweler’s

Series of 15 cropped photographs.
Pricing principle. Metro plan. Illegal travelers. Nazi. Laminated. Shine

22 April 2023

Documentary film and artificial intelligence" round table (Golden Tree Festival - 7^th edition)

Design, moderation and participation in a round-table discussion on artificial intelligence.
Benoît Labourdette participated in the moderation, interventions and collaborative dimension of this round table on “Documentary and Artificial Intelligence”, to (…)

22 April 2023

Green sky

Series of 35 photographs of the air.
The invisible matter is rough and colored.

17 April 2023

Red button

Series of 43 floral photographs.
A plant metaphor for the disturbance of consciousness in situations of power.When I looked at this series of photographs after I’d made it, this floral red button (…)

8 April 2023

Lost in the morning

Series of 25 photographs in the early morning.
At the moment of awakening, the vision is not yet clear, and the mind is not yet precisely anchored in the body.

3 April 2023

Fringe

Series of 50 photos in quantum method.
It is the fact of looking that generates the image, by stopping the movement. If one does not look, things are everywhere at the same time. Poetic interpretation of (…)

27 March 2023

Digital is not immaterial

Elements of understanding.
The digital world is much more material than we think. It seems important to me to take the measure of it in a concrete way, it is what can allow to build good (…)

25 March 2023

Trailer of the International Women’s Film Festival 2023

A film by Benoît Labourdette (28s & 8s, 2023).
Through their thoughts, their actions, their words, their images... women have built their emancipation. 45th edition of the International Women’s Film Festival (from (…)

24 March 2023

Brushes

Series of 24 photographs with brushes.
To brush, in a gesture, in a second, the inclination of my life.Brush by the sensitive surface in movements.To compose with several together.To find oneself (…)

13 March 2023

Manufacture of the moon

Series of 84 photographs on a potter’s wheel.
Through the trees, the dreams and my hands stretched out towards hope, this moon that gives rhythm to our cycles, I would like to invent it, to remake it like clay, (…)

12 March 2023

TMNLab: “Digital technology is not a subject that deserves a position for or against...” - Benoît Labourdette

Podcast of the meeting with Benoît Labourdette at the TMNLab café on March 9, 2023 (1h08’).
At the invitation of Anne Le Gall, exchange with Benoît Labourdette on innovative and agile working methods for the cultural sector, thanks to digital tools, for a (…)

9 March 2023

Waves are water

Composition for piano and tape recorder, by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).
What ebbs will flow back, like life reborn after destruction.Music from the film « Waves are water » (Benoît Labourdette, 4’14s, 2023).

7 March 2023

Waves are water

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’14s, 2023).
Meditation on the depth of feeling in the world, based on a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh.

7 March 2023

A tagged life

Living exhibition of 30 photographs.
A “living” online exhibition of 30 photographs, which proposes a narrative in images and words and varies several times a week.In the website (…)

7 March 2023

Back to childhood

A film by Benoîtenoît Labourdette (2’10s, 2023).
Life was a gift.

6 March 2023

Fragile and forgotten silhouettes

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’15s, 2023).
Do we remember these living figures, near or far, multiple, these moments of intense life? As in a painting by Bruegel the Elder, there is no whole, but a multitude (…)

3 March 2023

A definition of feminism

A thought movement in dialogues.
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, whose effects also go (…)

27 February 2023

Podcast: “For a democratic and feminist pedagogy”

Dialogue between Noémie Rubat du Mérac and Benoît Labourdette on June 25, 2022.
Overview of the fundamentals of the pedagogical actions conceived and carried out by Benoît Labourdette, linked to the deconstruction of systems of domination. And (…)

25 February 2023

A tree in tears grows again

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2023).
Life after.

19 February 2023

A tree in tears grows again

Piano improvisation (2’06s, 2023).
We run, we play, we laugh... and then we choose to switch off.

19 February 2023

City lights

Un film de Benoît Labourdette (4’00s, 2023).
Nos deux yeux voient gauche-droite avec un écart, avant-après avec la mémoire, devant-derrière avec leur mobilité ; ils créent le relief et la profondeur.

9 février 2023

"Create your own film on the memory of the neighborhood in Villejuif

Presentation of the project by Benoît Labourdette to the Villejuif City Council on February 9, 2023 (5’53s).
On February 9, 2023, the “citizen hour” of the Villejuif (Val de Marne) city council was devoted to culture for all in the city. Several projects were presented, (…)

9 February 2023

“China : window on blows” - Underneath the images - ARTE

Issued on February 8, 2023.
Decoding images of violence, a perilous exercise.The tv channel ARTE asked me to participate in one of the programs of the series “Le dessous des images”, on the (…)

8 February 2023

It is the educator and not the child who needs pedagogy

Podcast on the subject of pedagogical posture.
Contrary to popular belief, the most effective way to help people learn is not to pass on knowledge and skills, but to put yourself in a position to learn. Why is (…)

8 February 2023

The Freinet method applied to digital mediation

Pedagogy and politics of autonomy.
The pedagogical method known as “Freinet” (conceptualized by the pedagogue Célestin Freinet from the 1920s to the 1960s, as a synthesis of pre-existing new (…)

7 February 2023

Bodies thrown in front of empty space

Series of 100 photographs in a hallway.
The empty space, the stage, the fallow field, on which humanity grows. Often, one passes by without stopping.

6 February 2023

Understanding virtual reality filmmaking

Workshop within the framework of QIFF (Quimper Images & Films Festival).
Use of Virtual Reality tools to animate a workshop for the creation of playful and atypical collective audiovisual works.The QIFF (Quimper Images & Films (…)

4 February 2023

Patiens litore (slow beach)

A film by Benoît Labourdette (55’33s, 2023).
“It takes the sea an hour to withdraw from your soul.” A withdrawal, an explosive-fix, a path to the origin, barely perceptible and yet inexorable.

2 February 2023

Presentation of the metaverse

Thoughts for consideration.
On October 28, 2021, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the change of his company’s name to “Meta” as well as his plans for the future, in this one hour and (…)

1 February 2023

Creation and Virtual Reality

Critical thinking and creative methods.
Building a critical thinking of the stakes of Virtual Reality (360°) films, through practical application and creativity.This article was originally published in (…)

31 January 2023

The singularity

Collaborative transmedia project (2016).
In 2016, I designed a participatory transmedia project on the subject of the relationship between human beings and artificial intelligences. This project was embodied (…)

31 January 2023

Two hands

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’07s, 2023).
How to accompany the one who is no longer there?

30 January 2023

Nature of reality in the digital age

Small kaleidoscope of thoughts about digital philosophy.
In my opinion, digital technology is not a subject that should be debated, that deserves to be positioned “for” or “against”. It is in fact an environment of (…)

28 January 2023

“VR can still enter everyday use”

Interview of Benoît Labourdette by Pablo Maillé in Usbek & Rica media.
Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that has not yet been appropriated by the general public. It seems interesting to me to take a step aside, playful, to build our (…)

24 January 2023

Cold fire at the castle

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’17s, 2023).
At times, past, present, fiction and reality are intertwined. The present moment becomes a tale.

23 January 2023

“On the beach of my imagination” : video installation in the hospital

Immersive device: permanent video installation at the Jacques Monod Hospital in Flers (Normandy - 2022).
Accounts of the issues at work in an art for health project. Every morning, the big wall of the waiting room of the hospital in Flers lights up by itself. Video (…)

13 January 2023

Back in time

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2023).
What if, what if, what if... sometimes you wish you could turn back the clock.

12 January 2023

Little moon

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’26s, 2023).
I try to look further, to feel deeper.

3 January 2023

ROSEBUD 2022, the end of cinema

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’45s, 2022).
To grieve is to carry more weight. It is to live with the absence. It is to become more lucid. It means having to be stronger. It is to be more joyful of everything.

30 December 2022

91 Gare du Nord

Série de 67 photographies d’un autobus.
Un élément déclencheur, et tout le monde danse, dans tous les sens !

29 décembre 2022

Laddered

Series of 45 laddered photographs.
If each image flows before our eyes, then the world becomes like a fluid.

28 December 2022

Cry

A film by Benoît Labourdette (4’40s, 2022).
Already in the past, I knew the sadness that would come over me later.

27 December 2022

Blue Mouth

Series of 24 photographs of a passage.
Like a whirlwind you fascinate me, you draw me in, you seduce me. I sink into you.

24 December 2022

That light

A flm by Benoît Labourdette (1’36s, 2022).
One night, as if nothing had happened.

23 December 2022