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Nicolas Gourault
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7 titles
Nicolas Gourault is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris (FR) with a background in visual arts and visual studies. He has worked with Forensic Architecture before graduating from Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts. His work is imbued with this double training, navigating between online open-source investigations and the critical use of new media as documentary tools. His films and video installations explore the power relationships embedded in technologies and tries to build counter-narratives through the use of situated testimony and experimental image-making. His artworks have been exhibited in film festivals and contemporary art venues.
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NRHow does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.
Their Eyes
2025
4.3A deadly accident involving a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets in motion a series of questions and concerns about the role of human vehicle operators in the training of autonomous automobiles.
VO
2021
NRAn experiment on the limits of visual perception and the concept of landscape which mixes the codes of cinemascope cinema with the poor images of embedded cameras.
Haptophilia
2016
7.5Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.
This Means More
2020
NRA virtual crowd from archival footage invades contemporary promotional images.
Turba
2022
Behind the camera
NRHow does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.
Their Eyes
2025
NRHow does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.
Their Eyes
2025
4.3A deadly accident involving a self-driving car and a pedestrian sets in motion a series of questions and concerns about the role of human vehicle operators in the training of autonomous automobiles.
VO
2021
NRAn experiment on the limits of visual perception and the concept of landscape which mixes the codes of cinemascope cinema with the poor images of embedded cameras.
Haptophilia
2016
7.5Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.
This Means More
2020
7.5Images of crowd simulation are faced with testimonies from Liverpool Football Club’s supporters who recall their experience marked by a tragic event: the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989, which changed the nature of the game of football.
This Means More
2020
NRA virtual crowd from archival footage invades contemporary promotional images.
Turba
2022