Élie Bolard

Clone Hurlant video, 10’’40’ Initially created as a competitor to the Nice Crier drone during the confinements. The idea was to make a rival drone. But de facto, this drone turned out to be just as much a product of capital. Seeing no hope in the techno-capitalist future. No matter how hard he tried to get a bird's eye view, he couldn't see anything on the horizon. This object, equipped with voice equipment, a kind of technological chimera combining a drone and loudspeakers, moves. It talks, reflects on its surroundings and on itself. It flies in Nice, a testing ground for authoritarian technologies, but also evokes the rise of over-surveillance in the world. The chimera flies, talks, suffers...