Their Eyes

Berlinale Shorts 2025

How does a machine learn to read the world? In a series of testimonies and screen recordings, clickworkers from the Global South talk about their daily work. Their job is to analyse, edit and label countless images of traffic on the streets of the Global North with the aim of training the AI of self-driving cars to navigate. In transnational chat rooms, the clickworkers imagine micro-strategies to hack the system that is exploiting them.

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by Nicolas Gourault (Director, Screenplay) France 2025 English, Spanish 23' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

Crew

Director	Nicolas Gourault
Screenplay	Nicolas Gourault
Editing	Lucas Azémar, Félix Rehm, Nicolas Gourault
Sound Design	Etienne André
Animation	Nicolas Gourault
Producers	Yannick Beauquis, Quentin Brayer

Produced by

Don Quichotte Films

World Sales

Square Eyes

Photos

Nicolas Gourault

The artist and filmmaker is based in Paris and has a background in fine art and visual studies. Before graduating from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts, he worked for the Forensic Architecture research agency which uses architectural analysis to document human rights abuses. His artistic work is imbued with this double training and navigates between online open-source investigations and the critical use of new media as a tool for documentary. His films and installations explore the power relationships embedded in such technologies and seeks to build counter-narratives.

Filmography (short documentaries)

2019 This Means More 2020 VO 2025 Their Eyes

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025