Documentaire sur Grand Ecran : manufacturing of the DVD “Documentary cinema, fragments of history”

DVD Technical Production of a film on the history of cinema.The association Documentaire sur Grand Ecran asked me to manufacture DVDs for their DVD collection “Special Collections”. Documentary films for demanding directors, for which I work (…)

2014 Screenwriters Festival

A history of Italian cinema, in a route of traveling screenings in the city of Valencia, in the 2014 screenwriters Festival.The theme of Screenwriters Festival in 2014 was the Italian cinema. The festival has asked me a projection path in the (…)

“Cinema and video games”: three lectures by Benoît Labourdette.

Within the framework of the university of the cinema of Ciclic.

These lectures examine the relationship between the worlds of film and video games. Parallel histories, crossings, reciprocal inspirations and hybridizations between cinema and video games, from Tron to machinimas through Elephant, Casino Royale (…)

Cinematheque of Martigues : “From the sensitive to the camera”

The Cinematheque of Martigues offers a program of films by Benoît Labourdette. “From the sensitive to the camera”Benoît Labourdette’s film program, from April 1 to 15, 2017, as part of the exhibition “Films in the Pockets”.Presentation text (…)

Mediathemes magazine: “Technologies and contemporary uses of moving images”

Short techno-sociological history of cinema.

Moving images seem so natural and omnipresent that we are sometimes not very aware that they are in fact intrinsically linked to very concrete technologies, which have a strong impact on their content, more than we want to believe. For example, (…)

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 foundations questioned. At the time, André Bazin defined cinema in terms of (…)