In fact, I’m an inventor. I don’t spend hours applying a recipe, I invent a recipe, a way of doing things. And then I invent another one.

In my work, it’s the same, I invent methods and tools. And this produces things, by themselves, almost. So I invent, and the works are the traces of these inventions.

“Image carriers” Brittany - Training “portable cinema”

At the invitation of the UFFEJ Britanny (Laurence Dabosville), I proposed a day of training for project managers “Smugglers images” of the Britanny region (France), on the potential of the “mobile projection.” Issues of the training * Why is the (…)

New directions

A film by Emmanuel Vergès and Benoît Labourdette (1’25s, 2021).

"What if we gave ourselves new directions by seeking new points of view?Text by Emmanuel Vergès.Direction, image, sound by Benoît Labourdette.Shot at the Domaine of Chamarande, France - 2021.

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 (…)

Becoming

Analyze your project using the Fribourg Declaration

Working method

How to set in motion an approach open to cultural rights, that is to say, to put more democracy in the projects and the relationship with the public? A good way to start is to analyze your project according to the 8 cultural rights proposed by (…)

See or be seen

Collective film (3’29s, 2019).

Objects share their vision of ecology and the future.

“Distances”: a look at a new situation (ocim)

Resources

The Ocim (Observation Cooperation Museum Information) proposes the sharing of reflections of professionals from the museum world to invent the afterlife, which seem to me really inspiring to innovate in the audiovisual field..Cultural (…)

Piracy: an unknown blessing for the audiovisual sector

Legal, historical, technological, economic and political elements.

“Piracy is a danger for creation, infringers must be punished”: this is the commonly accepted discourse, which directs points of view, regulatory and professional choices. And yet, the very people who hold this discourse contradict it in their (…)

Illegal Cinema (The laboratories of Aubervilliers)

Projection of my film Fatigue at Illegal cinema is an original initiative born in Belgrade in 2007, and taken over at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers.Note of intent of Illegal cinema:illegal_cinema is a weekly meeting where spectators (…)

Understanding virtual reality filmmaking

Workshop within the framework of QIFF (Quimper Images & Films Festival).

Use of Virtual Reality tools to animate a workshop for the creation of playful and atypical collective audiovisual works.The QIFF (Quimper Images & Films Festival), a young festival (2nd edition in 2023, produced by l’association Gros (…)

Suddenly

Arts Center of Enghien-les-bains - Animation movie workshop

The Arts Centre Enghien Les Bains / digital Scriptures, an important place of digital creation in France, proposed Saturday, December 2, 2012, the first workshop for animation movie... with mobile phone ! Designed with and led by Benoît (…)

“An artist must be complete. A painter, if he is only a painter, is dead. I do scultpure, painting, music.”

Chomo (1907-1999) quotes. “We are not on the earth to make money, eat and have sex. We are on the earth to evolve.” “Before, we mimicked, in art, the truth (reality). Now, we have understood, I have understood that we can represent dreams. I (…)

CEFPF : Formation “Concevoir, réaliser, financer des contenus pour les nouveaux médias”

Stage de 5 semaines (formation en présentiel, à distance ou mixte).

Cette formation approfondie proposée par le CEFPF, dont le formateur référent est Benoît Labourdette, permet l’appropriation des nouveaux langages, technologies et pratiques de l’audiovisuel numérique, dans une perspective de construction (…)

Moulin d’Andé-Ceci : day about “New broadcasters, new creations, new economy?”

Participation in a roundtable on innovation in dissemination approaches.The Moulin d’Andé, “Center of cultural meetings”, is a place of poetry, of creation, where artists come for a long time to revitalize and create. A little corner of (…)

Institut Français: Innovating in cultural policies for cinema and the relationship with the public, in the light of digital practices

Training for the Institut Français Region East Europe

To take into account the evolution of the use of moving images, in order to conceive adapted cultural proposals, motivating for the public, and in the missions of the Institut Français.Training day animated by Benoît Labourdette, within the (…)

When young people get involved

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’08s, silent, 2019).

Younger generations are always more engaged than we think.

META

MINA 2012 (Wellington, New Zeland)

Screening of « Poster », a film by Benoît Labourdette (3’05, 2012).In 2010, Max Schelser, filmmaker and researcher, accompanied by an international committee, created the MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa), which organizes: (…)

Multiverse

Ciné Lab # 6: “New usages, digital cultures. What (R) evolution for cinemas?”

Day of reflection and common development of innovative projects, for cinema operators and mediators.The ACRIRA and the GRAC (Rhône Alpes region), within the framework of their “Ciné Lab # 6”asked me to participate in the animation of a day of (…)

Being an artist means accepting not to be understood, accepting to be rejected, maybe even hated, accepting to be afraid, very afraid even, to some.

Accepting that maybe some people will never want to talk to us again. Accepting to be afraid and to be rejected, because we are accomplishing a “mission”, of which nobody, not even ourselves, know the goal. This is not seeking to be loved at all! (…)

Spike proteins

A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2023).

People who have stood up for the respect of humanity are always present, even to help those who had decried them.Directed, text, voice, image and music by Benoît Labourdette, 2023.This film takes a poetic approach to a public health (…)

There is always room for new creations, for innovation.

INA, iconic college : “Mobile phone is it the future of cinema?” (conference)

March 10, 2010, invited by Serge Tisseron, I made ​​a speech at iconic College INA, on the theme “The mobile phone is it the future of cinema?”.Text about the interventionThe phone is in almost any pocket at all times. Who forgets his (…)

Understand

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 (…)

TMNLab: “Digital technology is not a subject that deserves a position for or against...” - Benoît Labourdette

Podcast of the meeting with Benoît Labourdette at the TMNLab café on March 9, 2023 (1h08’).

At the invitation of Anne Le Gall, exchange with Benoît Labourdette on innovative and agile working methods for the cultural sector, thanks to digital tools, for a change of posture and openness to the interests of audiences, young people in (…)

In process

Moving screenings to reweave the link between the theatres and their spectators

Post-confinement cultural action project.

Itinerant projections on city walls, in the neighbourhood around a cinema, to experience again the happiness of shared projection, without any fear of health, thanks to the outside and the easy respect of social distancing. The film is also an (…)

Autumn Festival in Normandy Hybridations # 2 - New creative ways (web conference)

Roundtable / lectures on the issues of creation in the digital age.Rouen, 2 December 2014. I participated in the roundtable / lectures as an artist and cultural player. It is obvious, digital upset the issues of artistic creation, whether from (…)

I have a lot of doubts about what I do. That’s one of the reasons why it can be interesting.

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 (…)

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, (…)