Their Eyes

Nicolas Gourault

Their Eyes

de Nicolas Gourault

Synopsis

Their Eyes explore le quotidien de travailleur.se.s du Venezuela, du Kenya et des Philippines, annotant encore et encore des images pour des voitures autonomes américaines. Ils façonnent ainsi la manière dont les machines voient un monde dont ils sont eux-mêmes exclus.

Crédits

Réalisé lors d’une résidence Werkleitz plateforme européenne d’art médiatique et dans le cadre du programme SoundImageCulture.

Témoignages : Oliver, Elvina, Ivon, Yonaille, Jonel
Assistants de recherche : Leonard Nally Simala, Andrea Paola Hernandez, Niside Panebianco
Montage : Lucas Azémar
Conseiller à l’écriture du scénario : Quentin Faucheux
Assistante Image : Héléna Michaud
Montage son et réenregistrement : Etienne André
Production : Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer
Production : Don Quichotte Films

Remerciements : Inès Sieulle, Antoine Chapon, Claire Williams, Clara Chapus, Charlotte Cherici, Yuyan Wang, Peter Zorn, Marcie Jost, SoundImageCulture, Amir Borenstein, Mary Jimenez, Jorge Leon, Effi Weiss, Julie Pfleiderer, Jan De Coster, Susanne Weck, Julien Chapelle, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner, Don Quichotte Films, Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer, Julian Posada, Milagros Miceli, Paola Tubaro, Sana Ahmad, Alex Roy, Phil Koopman, Adrien Gaidon, Winifred Poster

Plus d’Information

Année: 2025
Durée: 23′
Langue: anglais
Sous-titres: anglais, français

Site web : https://nicolasgourault.fr

Projections

Berlinale 2025 – Premiere Mondiale

Projection work in progress (sous le titre “Unknown Label”)

Prix Ars Electronica 2024, Honorary Mention, expanded animation, Ars Electronica, Linz, AU, 09/2024
The Lentos Museum, Linz, AU, 09/2024
Screening – Expanded Animation followed by a Q&A. + artist talk on Friday 6th, at Ars Center, Skyloft, Linz AU, 09/2024

Their Eyes

Nicolas Gourault

Their Eyes

by Nicolas Gourault

Synopsis

Their Eyes is an experimental documentary project which will investigate the power asymmetries and neocolonial exploitation involved in the training of autonomous cars. The film will start with a service of autonomous taxis within a gated community of wealthy retirees in Florida, USA. The service was run by a startup and it operated between 2018 and 2021 when it was acquired by another company and the service was shutdown. In 2018, when the tests began in the USA, a terrible economic crisis struck Venezuela and thus a lot of people there lost their job and had to rely to online gig work to survive the hyperinflation. Many of them ended up labelling images used to train self-driving cars in the Global North. My film will take a thorough and critical look at how the service was marketed and used and put that in contrast to the process of training the AI of the cars, thus asking what is the global cost for so-called “disruptive” technologies ?

Credits

Testimonies : Oliver, Elvina, Ivon, Yonaille, Jonel
Research assistants : Leonard Nally Simala, Andrea Paola Hernandez, Niside Panebianco
Editing : Lucas Azémar
Screenwriting advisor : Quentin Faucheux
Image assistant : Héléna Michaud
Sound editing & re-recording : Etienne André
Production : Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer
Production : Don Quichotte Films

Thanks : Inès Sieulle, Antoine Chapon, Claire Williams, Clara Chapus, Charlotte Cherici, Yuyan Wang, Peter Zorn, Marcie Jost, SoundImageCulture, Amir Borenstein, Mary Jimenez, Jorge Leon, Effi Weiss, Julie Pfleiderer, Jan De Coster, Susanne Weck, Julien Chapelle, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner, Don Quichotte Films, Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer, Julian Posada, Milagros Miceli, Paola Tubaro, Sana Ahmad, Alex Roy, Phil Koopman, Adrien Gaidon, Winifred Poster.

 

More Information

Year: 2025
Duration: 23′
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French

website : https://nicolasgourault.fr

Exhibitions – Screenings

Berlinale 2025 – World Premiere

WIP Screenings (as “Unknown Label”)
Ars Electronica 2024 – Expanded Animation, Linz, AU, 09/2024
The Lentos Museum, Linz, AU, 09/2024
Screening + Artist talk at Ars Center, Skyloft, Linz AU, 09/2024
Cinéma Nova, Nuit Numérique – Mois du Doc, SIC, Brussels, BE, 11/2024
Gnration – Exhibition, Braga, PT, 08/2023
Prix – Awards
Honorary Mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, AU, 09/2024