All publications
Here you’ll find all the publications on this website, sorted by date, starting with the most recent.
The man with the briefcase
PhotographyIn everyday life, all of a sudden, our eye settles on something, and follows it...
27 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 8
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this tree is a real tree...
27 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 7
A film by Benoît Labourdette (5’18s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this poster is a face...
26 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 6
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this trash can is a bus...
26 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 5
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’59s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this wall is a lawn...
23 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 4
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’41s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this radiator is a wall...
22 November 2009
Cold
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2009).Never, never, never, never sick!
20 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 3
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’44s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this street is a safe deposit box...
20 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 2
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’47s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that this wall is outside... .
18 November 2009
The chicken
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (1’09s, 2009).Nature sometimes stings.
17 November 2009
Let’s imagine a moment - Episode 1
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’05s, 2009).Let’s imagine for a moment that the night doesn’t exist...
17 November 2009
Dust on the walls
PhotographySeries of photographs.Advertising posters on the walls of cities and transport corridors are to me an extremely aggressive visual factor. I’ve always been dreaming (…)
8 November 2009
Algorithmic squares
PhotographyThe algorithms, which are supposed to square our gaze, open us up to the unsuspected poetry of the world.Series of 27 photos, treated with the “seam carving” (…)
27 September 2009
Mind mapping to build a script
Tool-based practice of intellectual agility.One of the first difficulties in screenwriting is macroscopic construction, i.e. the overall sense of the narrative. Mind mapping is a practice that opens the door to (…)
30 July 2009
www.festivalpocketfilms.fr website
Websites, video platforms, digital cooperation spacesDesign, editorial management and redesign of the website of a film festival, the Pocket Films Festival. www.festivalpocketfilms.frProject HistoryThe Pocket films (…)
1 June 2009
3rd Castres Short Film Festival: participative film
Distribution of filmsStudy day, during which I presented the first version of the film The unconscious actors. Participative projection. A participatory filmThe proposal I made to (…)
22 April 2009
Trailer of the 2009 Creteil International Women’s Film Festival
Commissioning films and video content strategiesThe International Festival of Films of Women of Créteil and the Val de Marne, an important institution if it is put forward of the filmmakers (work so important, so (…)
6 March 2009
The Holy Bishop persists and signs
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’20s, 2009).The correspondences between the rain, which burns the glasses, which prevents to see, and the denialist theses on the agenda of the media for a few moments, which are (…)
14 February 2009
The imprisoned teenager
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’24s, 2009).Our real, composed of the confrontation of beauty and drama. But the reality of others, too, who live on dramas and are exposed, in the eyes of all, at the moment (…)
8 February 2009
« Les acteurs inconscients » en compétition à VIDEOFORMES, du 12 au 29 mars 2009
La vie des filmsVIDEOFORMES est l’autre Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, consacré depuis plus de 20 ans aux innovations audiovisuelles.Pour sa 24è édition, la « Manifestation (…)
29 janvier 2009
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. (…)
31 December 2008
Five explosive loaves discovered at Printemps Haussmann
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’26s, 2008).Our real is formed of the combination of our daily experience, our footsteps are, and the reception of this information.
17 December 2008
Book : “Shoot a movie with your mobile phone”
BooksThe first complete guide to filmmaking with mobile phones, Dixit publishing in 2008, which remains a reference. Free download.Download the complete book.I wrote (…)
31 July 2008
Moulin d’Andé-Ceci : day about “New broadcasters, new creations, new economy?”
ConferencesParticipation in a roundtable on innovation in dissemination approaches.The Moulin d’Andé, “Center of cultural meetings”, is a place of poetry, of creation, where (…)
18 January 2008
The kiss of La Défense
PhotographySeries of photographs. An impromptu kiss ... Parisian tradition? And how our gaze transforms it.One morning in 2007, among the white-collar workers who run to (…)
10 October 2007
Accordion in the corridor
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’44s, 2007).Nostalgia for the past, imaginary.
14 July 2007
67/5000 “Triton” in projection at the Center Pompidou, Saturday 9 June 2007
Distribution of filmsProjection, in the framework of the Festival Pocket Films, of Triton, an experimental feature produced by Benoît Labourdette with phones.Saturday, June 9, 2007, 2 (…)
9 June 2007
Triton
Un film de Benoît Labourdette (2007, 1h04’).SynopsisUn homme seul et anonyme parmi les anonymes évoque sa difficulté à vivre en plein jour à l’ombre des heures les plus funestes de l’Histoire contemporaine. (…)
1er juin 2007
Screenwriting software
Tools that format or emancipate us?Script software standardizes page layout, automatically applies styles and numbering, and frees up time for creativity. From Final Draft to Celtx, they have become (…)
31 January 2007
Little Monkey Revisited
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (1’10s, 2006).It’s usually only when we retrace our steps, long afterwards, that we realize the true value of things. No doubt we can learn from this.Remix of the track “Petit (…)
13 May 2006
The internet stage for cultural institutions
Cultural policies and digital revolution(text written in 2006, before the advent of social networks and cultural proposals such as the Arte website for example) New Internet IssuesThe Internet is no (…)
9 May 2006
What is “the audience” in the world of culture? Hypotheses.
Cultural policies and digital revolutionDefinitions of the cultural institution and the cultural milieu (text written in 2006).Here is my vision, personal and subjective, on which I base my assumptions: (…)
5 May 2006
The writing of the screenplay in terms of the DVD
New technologies, new ways of writing.The digital age is transforming the traditional screenplay into a more complex, modular object. In cinema as in institutional works or for social networks, the (…)
27 April 2006
How to write a screenplay ?
First leads.Scriptwriting confronts all authors with a fundamental challenge: to organize creative chaos efficiently. Between spontaneity and structure, each develops his or her (…)
8 April 2006
Writing the script of a documentary
Tracks for a balancing act.Issues and approaches to documentary writing. Initially questions What is literature ? A look at the real ? A meeting between a filmmaker and a reality ? What is the (…)
21 March 2006
Different Cinema Festival : Screening of “La tête dans l’eau”, Benoît Labourdette’s first feature film
Distribution of filmsOn December 18, 2005, from 2 pm to midnight, at the La Clef cinema in Paris (21 rue de la Clef 75005 Paris), screenings of super 8 films, including “The Head in the (…)
18 December 2005
Hold your right
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’57s, 2005).Movement of the human gaze, gaze of the machines, movement of the world...
15 July 2005
Serious accident for a traveler
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’43s, 2005).In 2005, the cameras appear in the phones, and invite to film the daily. One of the first movies shot on mobile phones.
1 July 2005
Behind the scenes
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’41s, 2005).Preparations for a cinematic event.
17 June 2005
Dream
Un film de Benoît Labourdette (2’15s, 2005).Regards et désirs dans le métro.
1er juin 2005
Under the cobblestones of Belfast Beach
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’05s, 2005).The fascination of being able to film what happens in everyday life, thanks to the first mobile phones equipped with cameras.
27 May 2005
Indifference
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’53s, 2005).Rediscover the world, between its real and imaginary dimensions, with a new shooting tool.
22 May 2005
Pencil camera
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’11s, 2005).One of the first movies shot with mobile phone.
20 May 2005
A Fire on the Ruins (2003)
Music albumThey wanted to make even our ruins disappear. Rebuild yourself with bits and pieces.An album long lost in limbo, which had to be revived from its traces, but which (…)
1 November 2003
I parked my scooter
A film by Benoît Labourdette (1’38s, 2003).“I parked my scooter, I lost my scooter. If someone found it, he can bring it to me.” Small musical and visual variation humorous.
18 May 2003
Voices rising (2002)
Music albumThird album in 2002, consists of a mixture of acoustic instruments, singing and real sounds musically used. The voice is much more present than in the two previous (…)
1 November 2002
In the cave (2001)
Music albumSecond album in 2001, consists of 15 pieces for nightlife, a little claustrophobic in vocal and physical consonances. Composition from actual sound of whispering (…)
1 November 2001
Small stones
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (7’18s, 2000).In the head of the child who plays in the sandbox, the greatest adventures are lived, powerful emotions cross over and myths take root.
15 December 2000
It’s going to rain
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (4’24s, 2000).The voice of the belly, the inner voice, the voice of the machine... the song of the rain.
10 December 2000
Granular voices
Real sounds remixed, 2000, 3’17s. Composition of Benoît Labourdette (granular treatment).
6 December 2000