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

Sequence Shot Festival

Campredon art & image contemporary art center (l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue - Vaucluse, France)
First edition of the only festival in France devoted exclusively to the sequence-shot form (unedited films), created and organized by Stanislas Trinssoutrop.Films (…)

14 April 2024

“Involving young people in summer cultural projects: issues, avenues of work, proposals”

Webinar hosted by Benoît Labourdette (Thursday, March 21, 2024, 9am-10am).
“Young people” are the main target of summer cultural projects in towns, villages and suburbs. And yet, professionals in the cultural, educational and social fields (…)

21 March 2024

Trailer of the International Women’s Film Festival 2024

A film by Benoît Labourdette (30s & 8s, 2024).
There’s stamina in the careers of great sportswomen and directors alike. Olympe se bouge! Meet the women in front of the camera; directing and self-actualization. (…)

15 March 2024

Fragments-images

Everyday Philosophical Tales
Written images of the world that evoke and build philosophical thoughts, gleaned from the encounters and shocks that life is woven with. Writing in the reality of (…)

13 March 2024

The two boys

Fragments-images
In this midday train in a quiet Paris neighborhood, metro sparse, a very loud voice on the phone. Two teenagers sitting side by side on two folding seats. The bored (…)

12 March 2024

“CinémA.I” in Studio 13-16 at the Centre Pompidou

Workshop on creating films in collaboration with artificial intelligence, led by Benoît Labourdette.
Film-making workshop in collaboration with artificial intelligences, for teenagers at the Centre Pompidou’s Studio 13-16. Creative proposal conceived by Benoît (…)

27 February 2024

The fold

Series of 80 photographs of light.
Unfolded folds illuminated in the unheard-of night of a gaze that lives again.

8 February 2024

Relic

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’49s, 2024).
How can we give a place in our Life to those who have left?

2 February 2024

Next train

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2024).
Time stands still. And then life returns. Pain is life. Sweetness is life. Replications. Messages. Double helix. Heal. ExtensionsWhen we live through borderline or (…)

13 January 2024

Gills

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’06s, 2023).
Attempting to connect with the imperceptible essential.

15 December 2023

Making a grave

A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’45s, 2023).
Finally, finding a way to exist oneself in the absence of the other.

11 December 2023

Visio-corporal metamorphoses: participatory artistic action at Louvre Lens

Creation of fantastic images using video projections on the body.
A pictorial account of the shared poetic creation of visio-corporeal transformations, proposed by Benoît Labourdette, with painting, drawing, video projectors, (…)

9 December 2023

and yet life

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’06s, 2023).
It’s incomprehensible that life goes on. To mourn or to bury?

3 December 2023

Garden poetry

Poetry inspired by the garden, whether in text, photography, sound or voice...
I discoveredI wandered I let myself be guided in the celestial gardencaught in the tangles of natureand the undulations of the figurebody and planta link (…)

20 November 2023

Podcast: “The living archive”

Benoît Labourdette reflects on the challenges of digital archiving in the arts and culture (44’, 2023).
How empowering people to take responsibility for archiving and using data can be a real strategy for the vitality of creation, both artistically and economically. (…)

16 November 2023

Workshop “Tools, games and workshops for image education” - Images en bibliothèques

A story of the session “How to run a video production workshop differently”, led by Benoît Labourdette.
Images en bibliothèques has launched a new course, designed by Florian Lecron, for professionals in the library, film, education and culture sectors. I contributed to (…)

10 November 2023

Workshop immersive techniques for creating an exhibition

An account of a method for constructing a point of view and an exhibition.
Students in the Master 2 Audiovisual and Digital Media (AVMN) program at Grenoble University were asked to organize an exhibition on the theme of voluntary (…)

8 November 2023

Walking on the sky

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle et Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (5’01s, 2023).
The gradual appropriation of the sky, to gently touch it, walk in it, live in it.

5 November 2023

Embracing the circle

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (17’07s, 2023).
Light is no longer the same, time is no longer the same, nature is in retreat-unfold, reinventing itself in this new world.

5 November 2023

Build a shelter

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (5’, 2023).
Discover safety at home in the world.

5 November 2023

Riding the thread of poetry, entering the garden

A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (9’07s, 2023).
To set foot, and then, step by step, to feel the souls of this place.

5 November 2023

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

Series of 36 photographs at the stake.
Facing each other in affront, shadow and light gaze at each other, contemplate each other, and dance their dance of death. They gyrate breathlessly, alternately (…)

23 October 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

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, 2032).
Signing with our soul, as soon as our fingers touch an out-of-tune keyboard.

30 September 2023

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

Instrumental music, 2023, by Benoît Labourdette (2’32s).
A piece with a fragile breath, that I play to pay homage to you, friend who has just left.

6 September 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

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’52s, 2023).
Dare to bear witness to what you’ve seen and experienced, that’s how you make the world a better place.

12 August 2023

Hall 1

Instrumental music played on the Korg electribe 2 synthesizer (3’52s, 2023).
The filtered sine wave doesn’t filter our nostalgic emotions.Music from the film « Hall 1 » (Benoît Labourdette, 3’52s, 2023).

12 August 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