Chloé Desaulles is a NYC-based, Alsatian-raised filmmaker and researcher. Her practice explores the use of emerging technologies as visual and narrative textures for storytelling. Through gathering, tinkering and reassembling, she creates frameworks where experimental capture, generative archives and analog pattern-making converse. Examining the documentation of memory, natural environments and legacy, Desaulles focuses on deeply personal narratives, tugging at the tensions between tangible and ethereal through multimedia layering in a shared space. With a degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Electronic Media Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, her work bridges research and narrative, with her time at The New York Times R&amp;D shaping her technological approach and documentary rigor. Her films have screened internationally at The Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Culture Hub, The Academy Awards-eligible Raw Science Film Festival, Venezia Shorts Festival, winner at The Dallas International Film Festival, and the New York City Independent Film Festival.

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Chloé Desaulles

Chloé Desaulles builds a fascinating world around New York-based singer-songwriter Charlotte Rose Benjamin, employing a multitude of experimental techniques.Desaulles' video for Hangover is a subtle and sometimes slighly eery combination of live action and 3D, where elements are assembled and layered digitally, utilizing&nbsp;innovations in photogrammetry technology and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_splatting" target="_blank">Gaussian splatting</a>.&nbsp;The singer's sets were assembled both physically through environmental cutouts and material furniture elements, as well as digitally through 3D modeling, custom machine learning, and painted in-software."As the artist navigates these spaces, she embodies the cyclical nature of grief: memory dissolving into reality, heartbreak transforming into release," says Desaulles.Benjamin is caught in a cloud of 3D moths, representing a&nbsp;seasonal and environmental cycle, which the director describes as "a pendulum swinging between physical reality and digital ethereality, until she is eventually graced with her own release."[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Chloé Desaulles

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