Chrystèle Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini
PRAAB (Beta version, 2020)
Online game
Prepare to go back to the office! It’s the only place to fall in love! With the help of AI and in Russian!

On Paranoia TV starting 30.9.

In English

Credits

Film
Directors: Chrystèle Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini
Production: Louis Beaudemont (Les Steppes Productions)
DOP: Daniel Zlobin
Cast: Denis Inozemtsev, Alessia Korsak, Lena Kuo, Katia Lojenenko, Evgueni Oreshkin, Pavel Savinov, Marina Suvorova
Camera assistant: Arsèny Ponomarenko & Egor Chechkin
Trainee camera assistant: Alexey Lazovsky
Coordinator: Alexey Orlov
HMC: Alexandra Brunova
Post-synchro: Zachar Semirkhanov
Sound editing and mix: Arno Ledoux
Chief editor: Antoine Alesandrini
Script: Margarita Vishnevsjaya
Translation: Taïa Kascheeva

Platform
Creators: Chrystèle Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini
Programmer: Nariman Varahram
Graphic design: Chrystèle Nicot
Editing: Antoine Alesandrini

Produced by Bad Manner’s and Pejman Foundation in coproduction with steirischer herbst ’20

Supported by Fondation Pernod-Ricard and ZIL Cultural Centre

The 20th century owes many of its most beautiful love stories to bureaucracy. But today, after many years of working from home, people have forgotten how to interact without the help of a computer screen. The birth rate is plunging dramatically, and humanity faces extinction. How to make love great again? PRAAB (Programme de Réhabilitation à l’Amitié et l’Amour par le Bureau) is here to help. Use an AI-enhanced video platform to relearn physical interaction before venturing back into real-life workspace. Remember how to politely accept a mug of coffee or swap fun facts and, maybe, how find to other people attractive again at some point. Watch tutorials and decide on what path you will take …. The sci-fi training platform developed by  Chrystèle Nicot and Antoine Alesandrini questions both the discarded office culture we all still know from films and books and the new algorithmic training forms already available on the Internet today.

→​​  https://praab.eu/betarelease/index.html 
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Bio

Chrystèle Nicot (1989) and Antoine Alesandrini (1985) are an artist duo whose practice moves seamlessly between film, installation, and sculpture. Their work is concerned with the intersections of cultural economy and technology. They live in Paris.

Credits

Film
Directors: Chrystèle Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini
Production: Louis Beaudemont (Les Steppes Productions)
DOP: Daniel Zlobin
Cast: Denis Inozemtsev, Alessia Korsak, Lena Kuo, Katia Lojenenko, Evgueni Oreshkin, Pavel Savinov, Marina Suvorova
Camera assistant: Arsèny Ponomarenko & Egor Chechkin
Trainee camera assistant: Alexey Lazovsky
Coordinator: Alexey Orlov
HMC: Alexandra Brunova
Post-synchro: Zachar Semirkhanov
Sound editing and mix: Arno Ledoux
Chief editor: Antoine Alesandrini
Script: Margarita Vishnevsjaya
Translation: Taïa Kascheeva

Platform
Creators: Chrystèle Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini
Programmer: Nariman Varahram
Graphic design: Chrystèle Nicot
Editing: Antoine Alesandrini

Produced by Bad Manner’s and Pejman Foundation in coproduction with steirischer herbst ’20

Supported by Fondation Pernod-Ricard and ZIL Cultural Centre