Moore’s Law

An empirical law of computing that has more impact than we imagine on professional audiovisual practices. Gordon MooreGordon Moore, a chemist by training, is one of the co-founders of the company Intel, manufacturing microprocessors that equip (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

We will find out

Spirit Journal : article “Lives in Pictures”

I published the article “Lives in Pictures” in the June 2016 issue of the Spirit Journal on the theme “Power of Images”. Issue edited by Carole Desbarats. Presentation text of the article “Lives in Pictures”Smartphones and digital platforms (…)

Video Les beaux jours : Mashup workshop

To make animated films from cut paper. The meetings of image education in AlsaceAs part of the meetings of image education in Alsace, organized by Vidéo Les Beaux Jours and Alsace cinéma, I participated in the animation of a day of thinking (…)

Dialects

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 (…)

Shy

Theory of modern art

A film by Benoît Labourdette (3’05s, 2019).

The functions and necessities of art, which is not a luxury, but life and our very nature. Quotes from Paul Klee.

Unaware actors

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1h03’, 2008).

A 30-day diary, 30 shots-sequence. Meetings, people, animals and places, from bottom to top. The search for what is hidden behind the appearances of the trivial. Chance and necessity.

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 (…)

Nature of reality in the digital age

Small kaleidoscope of thoughts about digital philosophy.

In my opinion, digital technology is not a subject that should be debated, that deserves to be positioned “for” or “against”. It is in fact an environment of existence, in the same way as nature, air, borders, economy, education... Digital (…)