ACAP Pôle Image Picardie - collective film workshop
Making collective films in movie theater for high school students.
The ACAP (Pôle Image Picardie) proposed to high school students enrolled in the image education programs in 2015 (5 classes), a day to show their work in the cinema of the House of Culture of Amiens. The day ended with a “discovery workshops” afternoon, surprising, innovative and timely enough practices (such as the live dubbing of a film).
I offered to two classes, the shooting of a collective movie in movie theater in 1h30 time. A chain, camera goes from hand to hand, each one filming a different object and pronouncing a slightly surreal text. A kind of cinematic exquisite corpse.
The purpose of this kind of “film” is to be viewed right after the shooting in the movie theater. Thus, we discover, in close-up and with the sound that fills the room, everyone’s universe. It is an intense moment.
Before filming, the project I am stating is that the goal of this film is to be shared on the Internet : it will be for everyone, everyone will be able do what he wants with it. So this film will be seen by people we do not know. So it is a responsibility, what we “offer” to these unknown audience, “others”. It has importance, and we will build it in that direction.
So I gave the web address where I put the film, I took care that each to record it, and, about an hour after the workshop, the film was online. I then found that it was very widely downloaded ! A lovely way to spread the experimental creation !
The two films.
Lives of the objects (collective film)
Benoît Labourdette has developed a series of film-making workshops using pocket cameras for all audiences, including teenagers. These workshops are highly effective, creative and rewarding for young people, and therefore constructive, as well as being great fun. It’s a practice that’s evolving in step with advances in technology, its uses and issues. Benoît Labourdette passes on his knowledge during professional training courses.
Since 2006, dozens of “Pocket Films” workshops have been run by Benoît Labourdette or by people he has trained. Here are just a few examples.
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Cinema workshop for absent children in Gonesse
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Nelson Mandela Library in Angers : “Five years old, five movies.”
Filmmaking workshop with mobile phone for teenagers in a library.On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, the Library Nelson Mandela in Angers (…) -
Port Zones Film Festival : pocket films workshop and travelling projection
Workshop for the production of films for teenagers, then organization by young people of the itinerant screening of these films, within the (…) -
Canopé 92: Pocket Films workshop in primary schools
Cinematographic creativity in the digital age in the Hauts-de-Seine: a “Pocket Films” dynamic for primary school students in three cities.The (…) -
LPMA (universities Paris 6 & 7) : production of a collective film
Production of a collective film by researchers in mathematics.The Laboratory of Probability and Random Models (LPMA) from universities of Paris (…) -
90 seconds contest - Thematic Films production
Film Workshop with mobile phone : 20 films shot in one day!“The 90 seconds contest” organized by the association Cinema of Le Havre (president (…) -
ACAP Pôle Image Picardie - collective film workshop
Making collective films in movie theater for high school students.The ACAP (Pôle Image Picardie) proposed to high school students enrolled in (…) -
Women’s Film Festival in Créteil - Creation of a collective movie
Making a collective movie by young people at the International Festival of Créteil Women’s Film.The International Festival of Créteil Women’s (…) -
’Croizy’ Festival for positive disability : “Pocket Films” workshop
Filmmaking workshops on the theme of positive disability. Croizy positive disability FestivalThe Croizy Festival, dedicated to the “positive (…) -
Pocket Films Workshop at the social house of Prés-St-Martin (Savigny-sur-Orge / France)
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War On Screen Film Festival Mobile projection workshop.
A group of high school cinema students, with the support of Benoît Labourdette, organized a traveling screening as part of the 2021 edition of the (…) -
Canopé 92: Pocket Films workshop in primary schools Pocket Films workshops for everyone
Cinematographic creativity in the digital age in the Hauts-de-Seine: a “Pocket Films” dynamic for primary school students in three cities.The (…) -
Video Les beaux jours : Mashup workshop Trainings for image education
To make animated films from cut paper. The meetings of image education in AlsaceAs part of the meetings of image education in Alsace, organized (…) -
Still speech Collective film (3’19s, 2018).
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M.C.A. A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’58s, 2015).
A meeting of missing persons in a deconstructed place in transformation. Reminiscences of voices and breaths. Exploding of architectural elements, (…)