The voice-over: friend or foe of the scenario?

Voice-over is often discouraged in academic scriptwriting textbooks, which focus on the dramatic situation rather than on an interiority considered potentially boring. And yet, many films, and even “mainstream products”, successfully use (…)

Trafik Festival 2019: collaborative audiovisual creation event

A high level cultural event, based on the creativity of the participants: making films from commented photographs, broadcast at the time, which invite the spectators to contribute to it.. The projectIn November 2019, as part of the Festival of (…)

Remember here by the window

A collective film, initiated and edited by Benoît Labourdette (1h01’, 2009-2020).

Look out your window at home, and think of an important memory.This collective film is composed of 44 videos (among 500 made) shot by people in France, Algeria and Tunisia, between 2009 and 2013, in creative workshops led by Benoît (…)

Not to limit myself, at all, and to trust my techniques, especially the voice-over to give meaning, like Roger Corman did, who always kept his absolute independence, just like me.

Oh night

A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’29s, 2022).

A postcard seems to come to life, and write its own legend.

Passeurs d’images : Drawn Cinema Workshop

Workshop for making animated films from drawings within the framework of a professional event.Within the framework of the professional evening of the launch of the new national coordination Passeurs d’images (…)

Voiceover.

No longer say the interiority of the characters, but say images. In this way, the voice-over will show other images and will really enlarge the space (like superimpositions). When you tell the psychology of the characters, you don’t enlarge the (…)

Interlacing magazine: “The mental film”

From the point of view of perception, a film is only an illusion formed by our brain from visual and auditory stimuli. Images seen can produce sounds and vice versa. Each person mentally constructs a different film from the same film seen. Thus I (…)

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 (…)

Made in China

A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’07s, 2017).

Plastic animals are talking to us.

City of Choisy-le-Roi : drone workshop in a neighborhood

Audiovisual workshop with drone for young inhabitants of the city of the Navigators in Choisy-le-Roi, as part of a multidisciplinary artistic project.As part of the Urban Renewal project in Choisy-le-Roi, several successive actions took place (…)

Canopé 92: Pocket Films workshop in primary schools

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 (…)

CCAS: Animated films workshop on the theme of work

Two animated films making workshops (filmed and commented drawings) for electric and gas industry workers on the theme of work.As part of its cultural activities, the Caisse Centrale d’Activites Sociales (the EDF works council) questions (…)

OFF Film Festival : meeting about voice-over and collective film production

As part of the OFF Film Festival of autobiographical film in Olonne-sur-mer, on November 20, 2016, I suggested a thought and animated a moment of exchange on the theme of the voice-over. Then I proposed making a “mental collective film” to the (…)