Observatory of Cultural Policies: “The challenge of mediation is not in the tool, but in the use”.

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette by the Observatory of cultural policies (3’52s, 2019).

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette: why and how to conduct cultural mediations for the younger generations in the digital age.Directed by Aurélie Doulmet.

Abstracts of the conferences

The documentality explosionBy Maurizio FerrarisContrary to the predictions of the past century, we have not witnessed the disappearance of writing but, rather, to its explosion. And more generally to the explosion of the recording. The (…)

OPC: “Culture, youth and digital” training

Designing new modalities for cultural and educational projects. March 2022.

A new concept of internship for cultural professionals, in order to build an opening to the public who have deserted the public and associative offer. By the Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles. Course led by Benoît Labourdette.Trainee (…)

The living being

A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’27s, 2018).

Discovering in the materiality of the world that a work of art is not what it seems.

Audio recordings of the conferences

The entire symposium was recorded. As if you were there !(the 2/3 of those recordings are in french, the other 1/3 in english)

Pre-covid

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’, 2022).

A book that presents itself. Published just before the Covid-19 crisis, it reveals the techniques of mass manipulation that were employed during that crisis by governments and the mainstream media to gain public support for human rights abuses.

Theater and life

Short reflexion on the definition of reality.

We differentiate between “real life” and theater, like reality and fiction. Understanding more finely the entanglement of the two can undoubtedly allow one to better touch one’s own “truth.”Protest against the separate idea we have of (…)

About the symposium

International Symposium : Mobile Phone and Creation. Film, video, writing, games, music, applicationsSymposium organized by : Laurent Creton, Roger Odin, Laurence Allard, Benoît Labourdette. University Paris 3 Institute for Cinema and (…)

Program of Cameras Mobiles Festival 2012

The “mobile camera”, or “pen camera”, that everyone has now permanently in the pocket, is a myth that became reality in a few years... In this tidal wave informational become essential to the social and economic development, which place has the (…)

"Culture, youth and digital: designing new modalities for cultural and educational projects

Sharing of methodological tracks and professional training.

Deconstructing preconceived ideas about digital transformation and developing projects adapted to young people.The cultural offer is sometimes questioned in a brutal way by the “young” public. A questioning that manifests itself in particular (…)

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 (…)

City of Choisy-le-Roi : “To be here and there at the Navigators”

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’19s, 2017).

Creation of the synthesis film of a multidisciplinary artistic intervention carried out in Choisy-le-Roi over a year, within the framework of urban renewal.

It’s a piece of cake

META

“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 (…)

Book : “Mobile phone and creation”

Collective book to which I contributed, with the article “From economy to the conversation and audiovisual creation”. Publication Date : 19 February 2014 published by Armand Colin Link to the official website of the conference that gave birth to (…)

“On the ineffectiveness of our works in real life”.

Commentary on the text by Eva Doumbia & Kader Attia (2023).

In July 2023, visual artist Kader Attia and director Eva Doumba published a text (in Analyse Opinion Critique) in response to the youth “riots” that followed the killing of young Nahel by a policeman. Their text questions the usefulness of (…)

Heart of night

A tagged life

Living exhibition of 30 photographs.

A “living” online exhibition of 30 photographs, which proposes a narrative in images and words and varies several times a week.In the website www.benoitlabourdette.com, each of the articles, films, conferences... is associated with “tags”, (…)