All publications
Here you’ll find all the publications on this website, sorted by date, starting with the most recent.
“Loop” : collective exhibition (Lyon Particule Gallery)
Video installation.Video installation in tribute to my late son, as part of the group exhibition “Loop” at the Lyon Particule Gallery (Lyon, France).Visitors were invited to take (…)
7 December 2022
Going to the sea?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2022).Not yet understanding the disappearance of his child. Looking for him. Not finding him. Try to change the perspective.
7 December 2022
“The use of screens at the heart of child protection”: conference / training by Serge Tisseron and Benoît Labourdette
Proposed by the Federation of the sunbeams of childhood and the IRTS PACA - Corsica.Training day for 80 social actors of the child protection, to equip the professionals with the good use of the images and the digital in an educational perspective. (…)
25 November 2022
"Culture, youth and digital: designing new modalities for cultural and educational projects
Sharing of methodological tracks and professional training.Deconstructing preconceived ideas about digital transformation and developing projects adapted to young people.The cultural offer is sometimes questioned in a (…)
19 November 2022
Memory Palace
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’17s, 2022).How can a simple place become the crucible for the revelation of our childhood memories?
17 November 2022
Oh night
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’29s, 2022).A postcard seems to come to life, and write its own legend.
14 November 2022
Words sown on images
Series of 30 photographs illuminated by words.On my proposal, people have written words opposite images chosen from the thousands that I propose on my website, those that “jumped out at them” and gave birth to (…)
11 November 2022
Small bicycle
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’57s, 2022).Our movement is represented by signs on the ground. Are we those signs, or are we much bigger?
11 November 2022
I.M.L. (Institute of Legal Medicine)
Series of 66 photographs from behind the tree in front.Your temporary room was there for a fortnight before we moved you to your final resting place.
10 November 2022
Little man
Series of 55 photographs of the projection of a missing person.I’ve seen you for a long time, and now I understand your particular gait, flattened on the ground, for ever immobile. I try to replay the film but I can’t, there is (…)
5 November 2022
A loose ant
Series of 35 hunting photographs.Quest and non-conquest of an ant lost in the universe of human beings.
4 November 2022
Design of love
Series of 15 danced photographs.As I approached this simple tree in the city that evening, little by little I felt the powerful energy of its sap, projected towards its highest branches. And it was (…)
4 November 2022
It’s already happened
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’55s, 2022).Sometimes everything went too fast.
4 November 2022
Are you calling for help?
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’01s, 2022).Step by step, the quest for life, meeting a tragic fate.
3 November 2022
A seated man
Music based on real sounds and synthesizers (7’37s, 2022).Walking naively, for the last time before death.
2 November 2022
The unconscious
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’08s, 2022).Fleeting moments of connection with the mystery of our immense inner wealth.
2 November 2022
A seated man
A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’37s, 2022).The work of mourning, such a slow movement of life.
2 November 2022
Pathway to the light
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’48s, 2022).The path towards its end is not linear, it is woven in several stages, in layers that are not successive but concurrent, it is new and singular, it is at all times (…)
1 November 2022
The small train
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’,2022).Movement of discovery of one’s own life story in front of the landscape that scrolls by the window.
30 October 2022
Surface of a morning
Series of 42 photographs downward.Soil, cement, water, a few trees, traces of tires and old works, cigarette butts, reflections, rising sun, shadows of what overhangs the support of the forgotten (…)
23 October 2022
Hesitation to life
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’13s, 2022).Some people have many more questions than others; and the range of possible actions can be so different.
23 October 2022
Hatching of the diamond
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 2022).Through the darkest of crossings, the most powerful inner forces can be revealed.
21 October 2022
Look down
A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’20s, 2022).To look in the face of one’s greatest fears, for a few moments. Dive into consciousness. Build.
20 October 2022
Reflection alone
Percussion music, by Benoît Labourdette (2’35s, 2022).Like being at the bottom of a tunnel, when in fact we’re in the sky.Music from the film « Reflection alone » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’38s, 2022).
19 October 2022
Reflection alone
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’38s, 2022).How to find oneself and the world after the shock?
19 October 2022
An adult tree
Synthesizer composition by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).Music from the film « An adult tree » (Benoît Labourdette, 2’19s, 2022).
16 October 2022
An adult tree
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, 2022).If I had known, if I could have, and yet I was always there.
16 October 2022
Collective film shot in a movie theater
Creative participation method.Giving a voice in a creative way to the spectators of a movie theater, before the screening of a film.I put this proposal into practice in the framework of the (…)
16 October 2022
Equality is not won!
A collective film (3’12s, 2022).An intergenerational film to become more aware, and more equipped, to defend equality.
15 October 2022
Fragments of lives
A collective movie (3’20s, 2022).By sharing all our views, even the most intimate ones, we become stronger!
12 October 2022
Calligram workshops for children
As part of the poetry biennial “Les ailleurs” in Charleville-Mézières.Creative calligraphy workshops, using graphics, movement, writing, music and digital technology, for two elementary school classes in Charleville-Mézières. Half a day (…)
10 October 2022
Louvre-Rivoli
Série de 40 photographies sur le quai d’une station de métro.Dès la station de métro, le musée entraîne dans son univers historique fascinant, grisant pour celle ou celui qui s’y abandonne.
9 octobre 2022
As the bird flies
Series of 55 animal photographs.What if we put ourselves in the head of a bird? What if we tried to paint its emotions, its look, its vision of the world?
8 October 2022
Soft Fossil
Series of 66 photographs in the heat.A dead and frozen being comes back to life by dancing around it.
7 October 2022
Dancing tube
Series of 100 photographs of a city’s lights in motion.Madam, may I have this dance?
6 October 2022
Extinction of a star
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’53s, 2022).The unfathomable mysteries of the universe, inexplicable cycles, circular and unthinkable infinity. Identification with the Whole. Fragmentation.
5 October 2022
Children’s drawings on the city
85 photographs of drawings projected in an abandoned apartment.These drawings of life, projected in the now abandoned place of their creation, which will soon disappear from the face of the earth, bring me closer to the look, to (…)
4 October 2022
Raising awareness of cultural rights - Nantes métropole (September 30, 2022)
Co-design and co-hosting of a one-day event for Nantes’ cultural players.Taking ownership of cultural rights concepts and approaches through cooperative creativityA small group of cultural players from Nantes, led by Véronique (…)
30 September 2022
Window troubled by the night
Series of 32 indoor night photographs.In the middle of the night, an awakening that is not an awakening makes me see the bedroom window as a being that seems to want to tell me something important.
25 September 2022
Fragile source
A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’25s, 2022).Homage. Imagine your way. As I can. Without knowing. For you. You are no longer. There. For Hippolyte.
25 September 2022
Accepting death
Fragments-imagesOne year to the day after I wrote this image of a young man filming an electric wire, on September 13, 2022, my son Hippolyte decided to die, he was going to be 23 (…)
13 September 2022
Nectart magazine: “Are digital platforms transforming our relationship to art?”
Article by Benoît Labourdette, published in the magazine Nectart issue 15 (June 2022).Contrary to popular belief, digital platforms can be real crucibles of creativity and cultural diversity, given their very powerful springs and the fact that they (…)
10 September 2022
Cultural summer 2022 with Cultures du coeur: “Changing horizons”.
Tour of film-making workshops in the social field.During “l’été culturel 2022” (French Ministry of Culture), Cultures du cœur offered nine social structures around France the opportunity to take part in cut-paper (…)
10 September 2022
“The Long Tail”: Cultural Diversity in the Digital Age
Tool for the design of cultural projects.The “long tail” is one of the essential concepts of the Internet economy. Contrary to popular belief, on the Internet it is the great diversity of a myriad of (…)
5 September 2022
Piracy: an unknown blessing for the audiovisual sector
Legal, historical, technological, economic and political elements.“Piracy is a danger for creation, infringers must be punished”: this is the commonly accepted discourse, which directs points of view, regulatory and professional (…)
5 September 2022
Mediathemes magazine: “Technologies and contemporary uses of moving images”
Short techno-sociological history of cinema.Moving images seem so natural and omnipresent that we are sometimes not very aware that they are in fact intrinsically linked to very concrete technologies, which (…)
1 September 2022
Mediathemes magazine: “Making a good projection in a library”
Practical and methodological sheet.What motivates someone to come and see a film being screened in a media library, at a time when all or almost all films are easily available on the internet, including (…)
1 September 2022
Chapter 5: Sound techniques
Basis of digital cinema and digital videoIn the audiovisual industry, sound is always the poor relation, it is always the one we talk about at the end, it is always the one we almost forget. And yet, it is (…)
9 August 2022
Work or mastery ?
Methodology of the productive action.How do we achieve the best possible result in the work, in the construction? In my opinion, contrary to popular belief, it is not the search for greater mastery that (…)
8 August 2022
Frosted
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2022).Recovering your childhood dreams...
29 July 2022