Chloé Desaulles

Chloé Desaulles is a NYC-based, Alsatian-raised filmmaker and researcher. Her practice explores emerging technologies as visual and narrative tools, gathering, tinkering with and reassembling media to build new visual languages and aesthetics. Working with custom-coded tools and multimedia layering, Desaulles pursues universality through personal, visually driven narratives that bridge tangible and ephemeral.

She holds a degree in Neuroscience and Electronic Media Arts from Carnegie Mellon University, and her time at The New York Times R&D, researching the future of visual and immersive storytelling, shaped both her technological approach and her documentary rigor. Through her research-based studio, Touch Response, she extends this practice into collaborations across fashion, music and technology with clients like Megan Thee Stallion, Van Cleef & Arpels, Arlo Parks or the American Museum of Natural History. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and her films have screened internationally at the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, CultureHub, Freiburg Kunsthalle, Venezia Shorts, the Dallas International Film Festival (category winner), the Academy Award-eligible Raw Science Film Festival, and the New York City Independent Film Festival. She has guest lectured at Columbia, NYU, the School of Visual Arts and DAZED, and was shortlisted for Young Guns 23.