You want a project or an event that genuinely involves its audiences instead of summoning them as spectators: a creation shared with the residents of a city, the visitors of a museum, the audience of a cinema, young people, so-called hard-to-reach groups, people in care settings or far removed from cultural institutions. Perhaps you have already tried to get these audiences to participate, without success: making that participation happen where conventional formats fail is one of the agency’s constitutive skills. Organisations also come to us to renew an existing event whose format has worn thin.
The project is designed, produced and delivered by the agency, and participation is not a communications add-on: it is the very principle of the work. Its artistic standard is what gives it its power. These projects are always conceived and directed by Benoît Labourdette’s artist’s eye, which sets them apart from participatory formats without formal ambition, which audiences see through. The agency has invented formats that have become references in the field (the Pocket Films Festival with the Forum des images, La Fête du court métrage with the CNC, the “Par ma fenêtre” project during lockdown) and works at every scale, from a workshop for ten people to a collective creation for several hundred. Many of these creations bring the generations together, and digital technology serves as a connecting force: each person’s creations are shared in a common online space, which links them together, gives them duration and builds up the project’s heritage.
Conception and artistic direction are carried by Benoît Labourdette; production and facilitation by the agency’s teams, sized to each project. Projects in the social, educational and care fields (mental health, disability, child welfare) rest on lasting institutional partnerships and on the « Pocket Films Empathie » programme, founded with the psychoanalyst Serge Tisseron.
Among the projects delivered: the Pocket Films Festival; La Fête du court métrage; « Par ma fenêtre »; « Métamorphoses visio-corporelles » at the Louvre-Lens, a participatory artistic action co-led with young mediators from the École de la Deuxième Chance; « La machine à voyager dans le futur » with Cultures du Cœur, a touring programme of digital creation workshops in the social sector; « Sur la plage de mon imaginaire », a contemplative video installation at Flers hospital; the living museography of Le Silo; « Mémoire du sport dans la Grande Guerre », the participatory creation of a photographic exhibition; « Filme Tout Court » in Villetaneuse.
