Catalogs of all editions of the Pocket Films Festival

The Pocket Films Festival (which I founded with Forum des images - Paris, concepted and directed), during its six years of existence (2005 to 2010 at the Forum des Images and the Centre Pompidou, France), built an original editorial, innovative, (…)

Travelling Rennes 2021: “Cinema and festivals in the age of containment: inspiring innovations”

Professional meeting led by Benoît Labourdette (duration: 1h35’).

How can we draw inspiration for the future of film exhibition from innovative projects carried out during the period of confinement in 2020?Professional meeting led by Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, expert in new media and cultural (…)

Saint-Lô’s Library : Bibliobox

Diffusion of a selection of short films by Benoît Labourdette in the Bibliobox of the Saint-Lô’s Library.To know more :http://mediatheque.saint-lo.fr/even... Announcement on Saint-Lô’s Library websiteCome to discover our Bibliobox!A (…)

Kino LavoÏ

Dans le cadre de la séance « AmiTiés Animals » le vendredi 13 avril 2018 à la maison des associations de Valensole, projection du film Made in China (Benoît Labourdette, 2017, 6’07s). Pour en savoir plus Kino Gap kinogap.jimdo.com La Voï à (…)

Image education as a space for connection

Trusting how people see to restore dialogue.

On March 16, 2026, during the National Meeting of Regional Image Education Centres, organised by Normandie Images in Rouen, I took part in a round table entitled “The Time of Gazes,” alongside Mélanie Boissonneau, a lecturer-researcher at the (…)

Filme Tout Court: Account of a First Collective Experience in Villetaneuse

When expert guidance creates the conditions for a successful cultural experience.

Invited as a jury member for a smartphone short film competition in Villetaneuse, I discovered how technical mishaps and collective adjustments transform an event into genuine shared learning. A Saturday in December at the Annie Ernaux Media (…)

Concorde cinema, La Roche-sur-Yon (France)

January 14, 2014 at The Concorde cinema in La Roche-sur-Yon, evening carte blanche for OFF Festival, with a screening of : Grow, Dominique Cabrera. Films awards at OFF Festival 2013: Beware of friends (Rémi Douence). I’m not a car nor Vincent (…)

Kino Season 2.5 (Gap - France)

As part of the session “manipulation” Friday, November 7, 2014, at “The cat in the tea-pot” place in Gap (France), screening of the film :News from father (Benoît Labourdette, 2014, 2’19s).

Télérama: “Short film competitions all over France: containment inspires budding filmmakers”

Newspaper article.

At the beginning of April 2020, Télérama offers a summary of initiatives for calls for audiovisual creation during the period of general containment due to the Covid-19 virus. The project “Par ma fenêtre” initiated by Benoît Labourdette is one of (…)

Foundations of the shortest day

Birth“The shortest day” was born of a dynamic film professionals, who proposed early 2011 to the President of CNC Eric Garandeau, the concept of a national festival of short films, based on the model of the “Music festival” (which is held on (…)

3^rd Castres Short Film Festival: participative film

Study day, during which I presented the first version of the film The unconscious actors. Participative projection. A participatory filmThe proposal I made to those present was, after the film was broadcast, to film, with the same phone, or (…)

Speaking Cinema Association : Pocket Films Training

Learning Workshop in filmmaking with mobile phone.The Speaking Cinema Association in Angers (France), which is involved since a long time in dissemination and education to the image, offered a training in filmmaking with mobile phone, which I (…)

The Free Institution

Opening spaces for creation outside the logics of cultural domination.

For thirty-five years, in response to the systems of domination that structure the cultural field, I have been proposing an alternative approach: the free institution, a framework that legitimizes creation without imposing hierarchy or (…)

Cultural Rights in Light of Personal History

At the beginning of my journey as an engaged cultural actor.

The question of cultural rights has long shaped my commitment, well before the term came to light. Through my story, I attempt to show how a living cultural democracy rests on recognition, diversity and sharing, and how digital technology (…)

Takavoir Festival

The Festival Takavoir, in Niort, is one of the “good” film festivals shot with Cameras de poche in France. Why “good”? For there is an upstream work, with young and school audiences, an inscription of meaning in the professional fabric of the (…)

The creative unconscious, a method for collective creation

When letting go becomes method. For a Taoist approach to audiovisual creation.

How can we explain that a group of people can produce a coherent cinematographic work in a short time without a script? A method that shows the creative power of the collective unconscious and non-action. Unconscious CoherenceFor years, I have (…)

Montmaur Castle (France)

July 26, 2014 release of the film « Is science immoral ? » (Benoît Labourdette, 5’11s, 2014) in the context of programming “Life of Castle” at Montmaur Castle.Partners: Kino Gap / The patio Gourmand / The Cat in the teapot.

Kino season 3.3 : “Oh, my god ?” (Gap - France)

As part of the session « Oh, my god ? » Friday, May 29, 2015 at “The cat in the tea-pot” place in Gap (France), screening of the film :« No picture on screen » (Benoît Labourdette 2’54s, 2015).

Create a DCP for theatrical screening

Tutorial for a professional practice

The DCP (Digital Cinema Package), is the “digital file format” specific to projection in cinemas (since the disappearance of 35mm film copies in 2012). It is an international technical standard. Here is a summary of the best practices for (…)

Online training course: “Short film, digital and 21^st Century: new media, new uses, new paths”.

43^rd Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival : film analysis course.

The Grenoble Open Air Short Film Festival always starts with a two-day course. For the 43rd edition of the festival in 2020, the workshop is animated by Benoît Labourdette, and takes place in video, on the theme “Short film, digital and 21st (…)

Taking narrative capillarity into account

Consider your scenario in relation to other scenarios.

Contemporary audiovisual narratives are no longer perceived in isolation but as part of a network, creating a narrative capillarity where each piece of content resonates with others through the viewer’s experience and their viewing practices. How (…)

Mashup Film Festival - Making animation movies (Forum des images, France)

In the “Mashup Film Festival” at the Forum des Images (Paris, France), 15 and 16 June 2013, I was invited to propose a workshop for making animated films with handheld cameras, in one shot, cut out of paper. The festival, now in its third edition (…)

“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 Labourdette, which took place during the winter vacations of 2024.Write a script, (…)

Café 61, session of short films by Jean-Michel Frodon

As part of the regular sessions of short films organized by Jean-Michel Frodon in Café 61 in Paris, screening as part of the meeting of Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 17h of the movie: « Around » (3’37s, 2013).Café 61. 3 Rue de l’Oise, 75019 (…)

Homes radio : “A meeting of film like no other”

As part of the “Fine Speaker” week at the House of steelworkers in January 2014, the “Homes Radio” (community radio done by young people in insertion) proposed a program about the « night journey » I proposed.Link to the web page of the emission.

Palais de Tokyo (Paris) - Launch evening of the Shortest day

At the launch party at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) of the second edition of “The shortest day”, the international short film day organized by the National Center of Cinema release of the film H Building in the experimental program.

Kino season 3.2 : “Revolt” (Gap - France)

As part of the session « Revolt » Friday, January 23, 2015 at “The cat in the tea-pot” place in Gap (France), screening of the film :The puddle of vomit (Benoît Labourdette 2’00s, 1998).

iMédiacinéma 2013 - Films in competition

Films in competition Splash! Abstract If you guys ... The homeless of darkness In Green The cascade of two stools The Young and the Restless Watch where you step Who is it? - Toilets for girls Dream fighters emotions Muted Cinderella modified (…)

Kino 1^st edition (Gap, France)

Screening of « Staff room », a film by Benoît Labourdette (2’10, 2012).“Kino”, organized by Christophe Gauthier in Gap (association “The Cat in the teapot”) proposed its first edition, november 30, 2012.

Gisèle Halimi Feminist Film Festival - Ville des Lilas: “Female gaze” workshop

Film creation workshop, to decode the images.

Male gaze ? Female gaze? What is the difference? How do images place us in positions of domination or submission? In the lobby of the Garde-Chasse cinema, Benoît Labourdette installs a film studio that will allow you to create cinema scenes to (…)

Photos of some events of the shortest day 2011

Here are some pictures, bulk, events that took place everywhere in France December 21, 2011 as part of the shortest day.

Festival Khorshid (Téhéran, Iran)

Le Festival Khorshid (Téhéran, Iran), consacré aux films indépendants et expérimentaux, pour sa cinquième édition du 11 au 15 janvier 2016, a présenté dans le cadre de sa sélection française deux de mes films : Visages (3’46s, 2014). Les (…)

“Make your own cinema"

Article published in the Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace on August 4, 2024.

A cell phone film-making tutorial from Benoît Labourdette, to keep the kids busy over the summer!Appeared in Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace on August 4, 2024.Make your own cinemaBy Charlotte Murat.All this week, we’re giving you ideas (…)

Kino Reillanne (France)

Show of the film « Each morning » by Benoît Labourdette (5’44, 2013).

France Doc : “Documentary experiences : childhood”

As part of the session “Documentary experiences : childhood” organized by FranceDoc, April 24, 2015 at 19:30 at EnCours in Paris, screening of the film :Vire, next stop (Benoît Labourdette 3’48, 2013). Full program of the sessionFranceDoc (…)

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 by Benoît Labourdette presented Back in time (Benoît Labourdette, 2’03s, 2023). (…)

Legitimate participation as the horizon of cultural events

From legitimacy to participate: how cultural rights transform our practices.

Cultural rights are often misunderstood. Their strength lies in their capacity to transform our practices: moving from a top-down programming logic to the creation of spaces where everyone can legitimately contribute. Legitimacy as foundation: (…)