As part of the launch of the new national coordination Passeurs d’images, I proposed an “interactive cinema session”. Come in, ladies and gentlemen!On June 5, 2018, Passeurs d’images, a national image education scheme funded by the CNC and (...)
A collective movie (3’20s, 2022).
By sharing all our views, even the most intimate ones, we become stronger!
Collective film (5’21s, 2018).
In a movie theater, atypical travelers discuss their lives.
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 (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’05s, 2015).
The bankruptcy of a movie theater, and the words that accompany indifference.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).
Let’s imagine for a moment that this chair is a movie theater...
As part of the Cultural Summer in Île-de-France program organized by Passeurs d’images.
An improvised itinerant screening, prepared in the afternoon with customers of the bookshop La P’tite Denise, and designed with the complicity of Laurent Callonnec, director of the cinema l’Écran, thanks to whom we were able to criss-cross some (...)
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 (...)
Films with mobile phones in the Students and apprentices in cinema operation (Poitou-Charentes, France).The national operation “Students and apprentices in cinema,” supported by the National Film Centre and the moving image (CNC), offers (...)
Collective film (4’42s, 2016).
Exist? In time, in space, in poetry... in the image?
Collective film (3’04s, 2020).
The image of oneself, the images of others, which are projected on each other..
Collective film (3’05s, 2020).
Shared joy after a film session.
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 (...)
Benoît Labourdette reflects on the challenges of digital archiving in the arts and culture (44’, 2023).
How empowering people to take responsibility for archiving and using data can be a real strategy for the vitality of creation, both artistically and economically.In this podcast (44 minutes), I lay the conceptual and technical foundations, (...)
Collaborative action-research project led by Benoît Labourdette production in 2018 and 2019, to develop the synergy between teenage cinema attendance and cultural action.In co-production and co-piloting with Arcadi, ACRIF, Images Forum and (...)
Collective film (3’10s, 2019).
A revolt of objects against the Internet and its uses.
Making a collective movie by young people at the International Festival of Créteil Women’s Film.The International Festival of Créteil Women’s Film offers annually a filmmaking workshop with mobile phone / camera, I lead. Issues of production (...)
Example of a proposal for antifragile artistic and cultural education.
A proposal for a video production workshop for teenagers in a movie theatre, without initial registration, which was led, through a antifragility approach, to even more success in terms of mobilization, involvement of participants and (...)
Travelling workshop-projection, July 21, 2023 at 10pm.
A new way to experience cinema and Ivry differently.This summer, become a programmer!The principle : Le Luxy invites you to attend three workshops led by Benoît Labourdette on Wednesday July 19, Thursday July 20 and Friday July 21. These (...)
Day of intergenerational filmmaking workshops at the Le Garde Chasse theatre-film theatre (Les Lilas - 93).As part of the support for the City of Lilacs’ digital development project, Benoît Labourdette is setting up actions to prefigure and (...)
Making VR movies for groups of kids in an hour.As part of the “Almost Screen-Free Week”, the town of Garges-lès-Gonesse offered critical thinking workshops on digital technology to all audiences, especially children.At the suggestion of (...)
A film by Benoît Labourdette ( 2’54s , 2015).
The mystery of physiological processes at work in a movie theater.
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 (...)
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 (...)
Collective film (3’38s, 2019).
Crossed nostalgias in a cinema theater full of history.
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 (...)
December 5, 2013 at The Renaissance cinema in Fontenay-le-Comte, 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 (...)
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 (...)
Collective film (4’36s, 2019).
In a movie theatre, the objects of our daily lives talk about life with social networks.
Workshops on how to make animated films that are silent by teenagers, independently and responsibly.As part of Benoît Labourdette’s consulting mission for the city of Les Lilas, aimed at working on the orientation of the cultural policy (...)
Collective film (5’52s, 2014).
The unexpected little people of a movie theater.
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2022).
Recovering your childhood dreams...
An accelerated history of cinema, on the walls of the town of Fontenay-sous-Bois, starting in the theater and ending in the cinema, with an improvised collective performance of projections on bodies. Prepared and hosted by Benoît Labourdette (...)
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 (...)
Cinematographic creativity in the digital age in the Hauts-de-Seine: a “Pocket Films” dynamic for primary school students in three cities.The Canopé branch located in the Hauts-de-Seine department (directed by Alain Sedbon), based on the (...)
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.
Collective film (15’25s, 2015).
A movie theater wakes up.
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, (...)
I put out and I accompany the digital cinema workflows for producers, distributors, cinema and art schools : choice of cameras, post-production devices, broadcast quality... For example, I regularly manufacture DCPs.
The “experimental cinema” is a practice of audiovisual creation which explores the audiovisual forms and their artistic devices, of creation and diffusion. We make films, installations, performances. The stake is not to “tell a story”, but to (...)
Photographs, paintings, drawings, assemblies and texts by Benoît Labourdette (unless otherwise stated).