CHLOÉ DESAULLES IS A CREATIVE DIRECTOR working across SCREEN, STAGE AND INTERACTIVE. Her practice blends RESEARCH, MEDIA innovation AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY for visual storytelling.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK 
PARIS, FRANCE

PHONE +1.412.539.6764 EMAIL: CHLOE.DESAULLES@GMAIL.COM
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RESUME • EXTENDED BIO


SELECTED WORK


TYPEYR
ARLO PARKS “GET GO”
MUSIC VIDEO
2026
AMERCIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2025
MEGAN THEE STALLION
MUSIC VIDEO
2025
MR TOOLS  FOR REPORTERS
NYTIMES R&D
2023
CHARLOTTTE ROSE BENJAMIN
MUSIC VIDEO
2025
ALICIA KEYS SHOWPALAST
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2023
LUCKY DAYE 
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2024
ERIE BICENTENNIAL 
MUSEUM
2024
WORLD CUP IMAGING
NYTIMES R&D
2023
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM
FOR THE OPEN WORLD 
NYTIMES R&D
2023
LEMME
BRANDING
2022
VERSACE SHANGHAI SS21
INSTALLATION
2021
DESIGN PATTERNS FOR MIXED REALITY STORYTELLING
NYTIMES R&D
2025
MISC INSTALLATIONS • FURLA MILAN SS20 • BROOLYN MUSEUM
INSTALLATION
2020
MISC CAMPAIGN FILMS • THE MET • MONCLER GENIUS • ETC
FILM
2020
DEDICATIONS I-V
FILM
2019




SELECTED CLIENTS




032C • THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY • APPLE • ARLO PARKS • BAD BINCH TONG TONG • BENEFIT • BLACK DOG FILMS • THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM • BUCK DESIGN • BY FAR • CHARLOTTE ROSE BENJAMIN • THE CFDA •  FURLA • GOOGLE • H.E.R. • HENNESSY • IDEO • KORRES • KOURTNEY KHARDASHIAN • LOCAL PROJECTS • LOUIS VUITTON •  LUCKY DAYE • MEGAN THEE STALLION • MERCURY RECORDS • MONCLER GENIUS • THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK • THE NEW YORK TIMES • NIKE • THE OFFICE OF APPLIED STRATEGY • PBS FRONTLINE • RCA RECORDS • RIDLEY SCOTT FILMS • RITZ-CARLTON • SAMSUNG • SOMETHING SPECIAL STUDIOS • SNAPCHAT • SONY MUSIC • THE STATE OF NEW YORK • TAG HEUER • TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS • THE CODING TRAIN • THE MET • THE NEW YORK TIMES • UNA MIA • VALENTINO • VAN CLEEF & ARPELS • VERSACE




PRESS


PUBLICATIONYR
Arlo Parks - Get Go Review
STEREOGUM
2026
CitatioN ON CRAFT IN THE AGE OF AI
THE NEW YORK TIMES
2025
CHLOÉ DESAULLES : Artist Profile
INDIE EYE MILAN
2025
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CITATION  “TALK OF THE TOWN”
THE NEW YORKER
2025
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Featured FOR ‘Hangover’
PROMONEWS
2025
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2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
the new york times
2022
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Spatial Journalism: Interview with Chloé Desaulles
LAB RTVE, MADRID
2022
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NY Fashion Week Coverage
WWD
2022
Small Victories Photobook
BOOOOOOOM
2021
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Great Escapes: Creative Stylist Rachael Wang’s Favorite Short Films
BARRON’S
2020
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Director Interview with Chloé Desaulles
NYC Independent film festival
2020
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BYT Crew Love 04
Brygth young things showcase
2020
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Creating Infinite Bad Guy



Google Creative Lab
2020
TALKS & LECTURES


institution, typeYR

"Toeing the Line Between Eager and Annoying"
school of visual arts, lecture
2025
“Physical Communication Across Digital Culure, Chloé Desaulles in Conversation with Yehwan Song”
DAZED Archive Live, panel
2025
“escaping the algorithm with chloé desaulles”
day one podcast
2025
"Interdisciplinary Translation as Storytelling Agent"
columbia university, lecture
2024
"Immersive Storytelling Devices for a More Intentional World"
new york university itp, lecture
2024
two guest courses on new media
drew university, lectures
2024
two guest courses on machine learning and interactivity for the arts
columbia university at barnard college, guest lectures
2023
“On the Essence of AI: Demystifying and Deconstructing the Practice of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts”
frog design, artist talk
2023
“On the future of storytelling” 
mercedes-benz futureprooF, talk
2023
immersive filmmaking workshop & guest lecture
the frank-ratchye studio for creative inquiry at CMU
2021
“the tale of the brooklyn pastram”
processing day, talk
2019
recognition

typeYR


culture hub “new works”
residency
2026
google flow
residency
2026
dallas international film festival, gold winner for “hangover”
festival
2025
young guns 23, shortlist
award
2025
video art & experimental film festival, honorable mention for “hangover”
festival
2025
bogota international film festival, official selection for “hangover”
festival
2025
venezia shorts, official selection for “hangover”
festival
2025
heart gallery, “sacred screenshots”
group show
2024
culturehub refest
group show
2023
New York Independent Film Festival, Official Selection for “Dedications I-V”
festival
2020
Dumbo Film FestivaL, Semi-finalist for “Dedications I-V”
festival
2020
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
residency
2020
Dara Birnbaum Award for “Exceptional Work at the Intersections of Art, Media & Technology”
award
2019
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art 
group show
2019
Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Arts at the Frontier For “Dedications I-V”
grant
2018
freiburger kunsthalle
group show
2015



WRITING

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1:1 TIME AS EVIDENCE FOR PROCESS
ESSAY
2025
HOLDING MY MOTHER ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR
ESSAY
2024
answered interruptions
DIGITAL FICTION
2025
on loving machines
essay
2025


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Selection of finished documentation, behind the scenes, and in progress works for the stage, the screen and the internet. This website and its content is copyright of Chloé Desaulles, unless stated otherwise. © 2026 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED LAST UPDATED 01-09-2026
0    DEDICATIONS I-V
TYPE: FILM
05/19/2019

Dedications I-V is a short film composed of individual tales on memory as told by people with progressive memory loss. The short is based on neuroscience research, suggesting that memories can be made more resistant to degenerative disorders through the use of active recall. Through this method, the film is meant to act as a visual document of the protagonists’ memories, as well as a tool to strengthen them. This short was made using depth data with depthkit, the kinectv2 and unity, taking advantage of the medium’s loss of frames and visual inaccuracy to contribute to an already fading narrative. Original score by Alexander Panos. The film premiered at The Miller Institute for Contemporary Art in May 2019.









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“A refreshing experimental film about progressive memory loss that struck us deeply.”


- Daniel Navetta, BYT FILMS


CONCEPT & NEUROSCIENCE BACKGROUND

Dedications I-V is a short volumetric film composed of individual tales on legacy as told by people with progressive memory loss. The short is conceptually based off of neuroscientific research (Andrews-Salvia, Roy & Cameron, 2003), suggesting that the use of ‘memory books’ have helped slow down the erosion of specifically targeted memories. Through the process of active recall in the form of writing, drawing and collages, neural pathways are strengthened, thus made more resistant to degenerative disorders. 

This project is a cinematographic memory book, so to speak. It is a visual collection of my interviewees’ most significant memories, retold and rewatched. This film is meant to act as both a poetic document of those memories, as well as a tool to strengthen the neural pathways related to them. 



watch the new york film festival Q&A here.


AWARDS

Birnbaum Award • for Excellence at the Intersection of Media, Art and Technology.

Dietrich Humanities Prize • for Work that Best Exemplifies the Humanities at Carnegie Mellon

Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Arts at the Frontier (FRFAF)  • to help fund works that can be described as “thinking at the edges” of the intersection of disciplines


THANKS

This project was supported by The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Arts at the Frontier. Many thanks to all my protagonists, Jerry and Jackie Stolzenberg, Margaret Laske, Siamak and Joan Adibi, Candy and Pat Loughney and Patricia McCann, as well as the Pittsburgh Jewish Community Center and the University of Pittsburgh Brite Program.

Finally, I’d like to extend a special thank you to Golan Levin and Dylan Vitone for their invaluable friendship and mentorship.

This film is dedicated to Jerry and Jackie Stolzenberg, my grandparents, whose love of storytelling inspired me to listen and tend to my own.