The symbolic third, a tool to connect

Psychoanalytical tool to promote the construction of the link.

The symbolic third is a concept that may seem very abstract, but for me it is very effective in creating a constructive link, especially between adults and youth. Here is a short synthesis of it, as I understand it. In psychoanalysis, to be is (…)

Teachers’ lounge

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’07s, 2012).

Everyday life without apparent problems, in this teacher’s room of a high school near Paris. But it conceals dark secrets... a fiction inspired by real events.Ten years after the making of this film, my reality came to collide with the fiction (…)

National Meeting of coordinators School and Cinema: “Image education 2.0”

Benoît Labourdette Conference and workshop on the development of image educational practices in the digital era.Each year the association Children of cinema, coordinator of the plan School and cinematographic organizes a national meeting (3 (…)

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 (…)

France Culture french channel : Radio show “E-artist” (L’Atelier de Création)

In early 2013, Maylis Besserie, producer at France Culture radio french channel, asked me as she prepared a program about creation with smartphones.So I asked her to come for a day of training in pedagogy with mobile phone, at the Art school (…)

Short bio & filmo

Benoît Labourdette is a filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation and digital strategies. He is also a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur.He works in six fields, around the issues of creativity, democracy, (…)

Mother

What is a “good frame” for pedagogy?

In the field of education, there is a consensus that a “frame” is essential for the effective functioning of the educational strategy, and therefore for the development of the individual. But what exactly is a “frame”? And what are the ways to (…)

“Creative digital practices and critical thinking training”: conference by Benoît Labourdette

Atelier Canopé 86 - Poitiers. Study and training day “EAC at the service of the development of critical thinking”.

Participative conference to illustrate how the training of critical thinking can effectively pass by the means of artistic creation. To inaugurate the study and training day “EAC in the service of the development of critical thinking”, for (…)

Digital culture meetings: round table “VR, digital and education”.

Discovery of educational experiences using Virtual Reality, either as a tool or as an object for building critical thinking skills.Round table moderated by Benoît Labourdette, as part of the Digital Culture Meeting 2019, organized by (…)

Symposium’s program

Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:30-9am / Introduction : Laurent Creton, Roger Odin, Laurence Allard Benoit LabourdetteMobile, Writing and mNovel (Chair: Roger Odin)Session 1 - 9am-11am Explosion of documentality, Maurizio Ferraris (University of (…)

MOOC Digital Media Paris : “Image and Mobility”

The MOOC of the city of Paris on digital media, with Benoît Labourdette.The City of Paris launched “MOOC Digital Media Paris”, of which I am one of the first responders, with Dominique Cardon and ORLAN.This MOOC is built by EPSAA (Higher (…)

Pour survivre, je me suis réinventée

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’19s, silent, 2018).

Who is she, the one who must reinvent herself for the survival of all of us? What’s her name?

Ministry of Culture (France) : National Consultation on Arts and Cultural Education

The Ministry of Culture and Communication (France) launched in November 2012 a “National Consultation on Arts Education” to “enable all young people, in all territories, access to art and culture, from early childhood to university.”I was one (…)

“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. Intervention by Serge Tisseron, psychoanalystChildren’s rights in the digital (…)

What kind of world do we want?

A film by Benoît Labourdette (0’54s, muet, 2020).

Bibliography in 2020 for the emancipation of women and men.

Rencontres photographiques d’Arles : “Pedagogy of the digital image” (conference)

Development of practical and creative thinking in the pedagogy of images, with digital photography.July 8, 2013, invited by Jean-Yves Moirin and Francis Jolly in the Seminar of the Photographic Encounters, I proposed a conference on the (…)

It is the educator and not the child who needs pedagogy

Podcast on the subject of pedagogical posture.

Contrary to popular belief, the most effective way to help people learn is not to pass on knowledge and skills, but to put yourself in a position to learn. Why is this? In this one-minute podcast, we explain why, and suggest a concrete (…)

White Rabbit

Everything will be fine

Zoetrope

Poitou-Charentes Region : “Pocket Films Training” for teachers

Red Pixel image pole of the Poitou Charentes region, proposed as part of “Lycéens in cinemas”, that one of the features of the program be replaced by a program of short films shot with mobile phone from the festival Takavoir, and students benefit (…)

Growing up with culture : “The contribution of digital technology in cultural mediation”

Conference by Benoît Labourdette about cultural mediation with digital tools, on the example of the travelling projections within the framework of the Port Zone Film Festival. June 13, 2018, Nantes (France).

Gaîté Lyrique : mobility and creation seminar

Benoît Labourdette’s conference (full video) : “The mobile audiovisual creativity: challenges and opportunities.” (36 minutes)Introduction of the conferenceAlmost everyone has a camera in his pocket at all times, into his mobile phone. (…)

The Rational Education of Childhood

A film by Benoît Labourdette (on a text by Émilie Lamotte, 3’43s, 2019).

The most effective educational principles are not the ones we believe. Discovery of Emilie Lamotte’s sharp and constructive thinking. Émilie LamotteÉmilie Lamotte was a young pedagogue at the beginning of the twentieth century. She is unknown, (…)

The Journal of animation : Action article “Making a film with a cell phone: creativity citizenship”

Manage a workshop with mobile phone.The Journal of animation monthly reference tool for facilitators of socio-cultural field, invited me in 2010 to write a “share folder” to transmit issues, interest and workshops about filmmaking with mobile (…)

Skilled children

Eight fifth-grade children in a small bucolic school, to whom I gave the cameras, tape recorders, responsibility and autonomy to create films. Today, we are collectively editing their film. I am at the machine, we see the work being done on the (…)

It’s a piece of cake

Tutorials for doing video activities with your children

Podcast by Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2020).

Very simple tutorial (1 minute 30) to conduct two creative audiovisual activities with your children.During the confinement period in March-April 2020, the city of Lilas, as part of the project “The Digital Factory”, whose implementation I am (…)

Listening and silence

How to get listening and silence in a group? Surprisingly, by going through a work on oneself the results can be spectacular. Silence is a prerequisite to listening: a false ideaWhen we address a group of people, we need silence to be able to (…)

Newimages Festival: “Education and immersive images” (round table)

Focus on a Virtual Reality experiment conducted at the Fémis by Benoît Labourdette. As part of a round table presentation of various experiences around immersion, moderated by Xavier Grizon. Program and participants

Openings

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’51s, 2013).

Paradoxical injunctions in school space of a College, with a musical treatment.

MJC Dole: “Image Education: Popular Education for the 21^st Century?”

Lecture by Benoît Labourdette for proposals for philosophical and practical tools of thought on the challenges of digital and images. The aim is to collectively equip themselves to carry out popular education initiatives in the 21st Century in (…)