All publications
Here you’ll find all the publications on this website, sorted by date, starting with the most recent.
High school entrance
StethoscopeRolling suitcases behind high school students. Maybe he’s got a bad back. Rolling suitcases didn’t exist in the old days, and secondary school students carried huge (…)
27 September 2024
Subway train
StethoscopeA slightly faded white loafer that moves forward, then out of my peripheral vision into my central vision, then back into the periphery of my vision. A telephone (…)
26 September 2024
Kafka
Série de 35 photographies du labyrinthe.Se perdre ; être perdu ; se faire perdre ; exclure ; compliquer.
21 septembre 2024
5 a.m. emergency
Series of 86 naive photographs.During our time, so calm, not far away, the drama was happening. It shocks us for a moment. And then as if nothing had happened. And then that little bike.
21 September 2024
Flour hall
StethoscopeWorry. This big university building, in which I can never find the room I need to go to. A few months ago, with two very heavy suitcases full of equipment, I climbed (…)
21 September 2024
Stairway 1
Series of 86 metropolitan photographs.To follow, to follow, in search of the inner rhythm, the collective mystery of the depths innervating the city of its human beings, thrown out in numbers and yet (…)
16 September 2024
Climbing plants
Series of 16 scientific photographs.Biological elevation, fixed on rough surfaces to access light and protect itself... but what if everything had been reversed?
15 September 2024
Seaweed and its stone
Series of 36 sandy photographs.Each seaweed clings to its precious stone, which provides anchorage and relative stability against the motion of the waves, giving it security, access to light and (…)
14 September 2024
As if it were the end
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (1’41s, 2024).By small steps, as small as drops of water, the energy comes back.
13 September 2024
Distant
Composé et interprété par Benoît Labourdette (1’37s, 2024).Si loin de ton vol inaccessible, et pourtant tu es juste là, à côté, je pourrais te toucher.
1er septembre 2024
The mirror
StethoscopeA heart-shaped mirror. White, with hints of sky-blue for the frame. The mirror only reflects. Inside, I can see the top of the wall, a beam, a wooden lintel, the top (…)
18 August 2024
Starlings
StethoscopeAn impressive flock of birds. Like a powerful breath. Seem to bend the sky. Land in the big tree. And then another swarm, like a wave coming towards us, overtaking (…)
17 August 2024
Chips
StethoscopeA few weeks ago, I was sitting next to a young obese woman on the TGV. Obese, but hip. It was around lunchtime, and she had placed her phone in an ad hoc slot, which (…)
16 August 2024
Backlight
StethoscopeThis couple is sitting against the light. Side by side, facing the window of the fast-food restaurant on the side of the Centre Pompidou. What’s their view? The gable (…)
15 August 2024
Subway stopped
StethoscopeAt Quai de la Râpée station, right next to the Institut Médico-Légal, where the body of my son Hippolyte was brought after he threw himself under a train, nearly two (…)
14 August 2024
Your time will be mine
StethoscopeThese are the words of a blind man who has just sat down next to me at this terrace on the square in front of Saint Médard church. A few meters away, a man from Paris (…)
12 August 2024
Photography tips
StethoscopeAt the terrace of a café on the Place des Vosges, two men in their early forties, in Bermuda shorts, relaxed and upper-middle class. One of them is giving the other (…)
11 August 2024
“Make your own cinema"
Article published in the Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace on August 4, 2024.A cell phone film-making tutorial from Benoît Labourdette, to keep the kids busy over the summer!Appeared in Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace on August 4, 2024.Make (…)
4 August 2024
Warm rain
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’28s, 2024).When nature imposes itself, it dominates imperiously.
1 August 2024
Tutorial for making films in collaboration with artificial intelligence
A film by Benoît Labourdette (11’24s, 2024).Video tutorial for an effective method of making short films in cooperation with artificial intelligences, which I designed and put into practice as part of the Tumo (…)
5 July 2024
Reloaded In The Tube
Composé et interprété par Benoît Labourdette (2’14s, 2024).Nos pas dans le métro, c’est la musique de nos vies.
1er juillet 2024
Tumo x IA - Creative journeys to the heart of AI
Film-making workshops in collaboration with A.I. by teenagers from TUMO Paris.Large-scale creative experience for 350 teenagers, to raise awareness of the challenges of Artificial Intelligence, and equip them for critical thinking. Project (…)
30 June 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Creation” course for teachers
Podcast of a participatory conference by Benoît Labourdette.Co-animation by Benoît Labourdette and Laura Schlenker (La fabrique média) of a one-day course for teachers on the theme of Artificial Intelligence and creation, (…)
10 June 2024
The symbolic third, a tool to connect
Psychoanalytical tool to promote the construction of the link.The symbolic third is a concept that may seem very abstract, but for me it is very effective in creating a constructive link, especially between adults and youth. (…)
3 June 2024
Hidden trapdoor
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (2’03s, 2024).You have to be behind it, hidden behind the trapdoor, to attend the secret meetings; you discover the truth.
1 June 2024
“Awakening the eye” web platform
Lille Institute of Photography.Development and appropriation of a web platform for creating teaching resources and documenting the experiences of the “Éveiller le regard” image teaching project run (…)
14 May 2024
Multidisciplinary photographic exhibition creation workshop
As part of the Awakening the eye training program (Institut pour la photographie).Animation of the latest annual, hands-on image education training session for teachers, offered by the Institut pour la photographie as part of the program “Awakening (…)
23 April 2024
Sequence Shot Festival
Campredon art & image contemporary art center (l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue - Vaucluse, France)First edition of the only festival in France devoted exclusively to the sequence-shot form (unedited films), created and organized by Stanislas Trinssoutrop.Films (…)
14 April 2024
“Involving young people in summer cultural projects: issues, avenues of work, proposals”
Webinar hosted by Benoît Labourdette (Thursday, March 21, 2024, 9am-10am).“Young people” are the main target of summer cultural projects in towns, villages and suburbs. And yet, professionals in the cultural, educational and social fields (…)
21 March 2024
Trailer of the International Women’s Film Festival 2024
A film by Benoît Labourdette (30s & 8s, 2024).There’s stamina in the careers of great sportswomen and directors alike. Olympe se bouge! Meet the women in front of the camera; directing and self-actualization. (…)
15 March 2024
Fragments-images
Contes philosophiques du quotidien (livre téléchargeable gratuitement).Images écrites du monde qui évoquent et construisent des pensées philosophiques, glanées au fil des rencontres et des chocs dont la vie est tissée. Écriture dans le (…)
13 mars 2024
The two boys
Fragments-imagesIn this midday train in a quiet Paris neighborhood, metro sparse, a very loud voice on the phone. Two teenagers sitting side by side on two folding seats. The bored (…)
12 March 2024
“Cultural rights” creative writing seminar
Master Arts du Spectacle, université de Caen Normandie 2021-2022-2023-2024.A practical seminar on digital writing, with the theme of cultural rights. Students approach writing in the contemporary sense of the term, through the creation of a (…)
1 March 2024
“CinémA.I” in Studio 13-16 at the Centre Pompidou
Workshop on creating films in collaboration with artificial intelligence, led by Benoît Labourdette.Film-making workshop in collaboration with artificial intelligences, for teenagers at the Centre Pompidou’s Studio 13-16. Creative proposal conceived by Benoît (…)
27 February 2024
The fold
Series of 80 photographs of light.Unfolded folds illuminated in the unheard-of night of a gaze that lives again.
8 February 2024
Relic
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’49s, 2024).How can we give a place in our Life to those who have left?
2 February 2024
Next train
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’51s, 2024).Time stands still. And then life returns. Pain is life. Sweetness is life. Replications. Messages. Double helix. Heal. ExtensionsWhen we live through borderline or (…)
13 January 2024
Gills
A film by Benoît Labourdette (2’06s, 2023).Attempting to connect with the imperceptible essential.
15 December 2023
Making a grave
A film by Benoît Labourdette (7’45s, 2023).Finally, finding a way to exist oneself in the absence of the other.
11 December 2023
Visio-corporal metamorphoses: participatory artistic action at Louvre Lens
Creation of fantastic images using video projections on the body.A pictorial account of the shared poetic creation of visio-corporeal transformations, proposed by Benoît Labourdette, with painting, drawing, video projectors, (…)
9 December 2023
and yet life
A film by Benoît Labourdette (6’06s, 2023).It’s incomprehensible that life goes on. To mourn or to bury?
3 December 2023
The harvest
Composed and performed by Benoît Labourdette (4’37s, 2023).This calm waiting of human beings is the robots’ waiting for the harvest. Some scream and revolt; they can’t stand their fear of death. But most have grown accustomed (…)
1 December 2023
Garden poetry
Poetry inspired by the garden, whether in text, photography, sound or voice...I discoveredI wandered I let myself be guided in the celestial gardencaught in the tangles of natureand the undulations of the figurebody and planta link (…)
20 November 2023
Podcast: “The living archive”
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. (…)
16 November 2023
Workshop “Tools, games and workshops for image education” - Images en bibliothèques
A story of the session “How to run a video production workshop differently”, led by Benoît Labourdette.Images en bibliothèques has launched a new course, designed by Florian Lecron, for professionals in the library, film, education and culture sectors. I contributed to (…)
10 November 2023
Workshop immersive techniques for creating an exhibition
An account of a method for constructing a point of view and an exhibition.Students in the Master 2 Audiovisual and Digital Media (AVMN) program at Grenoble University were asked to organize an exhibition on the theme of voluntary (…)
8 November 2023
Walking on the sky
A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle et Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (5’01s, 2023).The gradual appropriation of the sky, to gently touch it, walk in it, live in it.
5 November 2023
Embracing the circle
A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (17’07s, 2023).Light is no longer the same, time is no longer the same, nature is in retreat-unfold, reinventing itself in this new world.
5 November 2023
Build a shelter
A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (5’, 2023).Discover safety at home in the world.
5 November 2023
Riding the thread of poetry, entering the garden
A contemplative film by Benoît Labourdette, Maëlla Mickaëlle and Jean-Philippe Poirée-Ville (9’07s, 2023).To set foot, and then, step by step, to feel the souls of this place.
5 November 2023