Nelson Bourrec Carter is a French-American filmmaker and visual artist. He lives and works between Paris & Los Angeles.
His practice combines photography, film, installation and performance while his research revolves around the links woven between real territories and fantasized landscapes, influenced by the weight of popular imagery. His work focuses mainly on the influence of American iconography on identity construction and racial awareness, and operates from places whose hybridity, history or architecture lend themselves to a new interpretation.
His films have been shown in festivals such as New Directors/New Films, Entrevues Belfort, Vila do Conde, in historic institutions like the Cinémathèque Française, but also in art centres such as the MacVal or the MoMA in New York.
In 2020 he is one of the recipients of the Science Po Prize for Contemporary Art, and a recipient of the national photographic commission Image 3.0 by the CNAP and the Jeu de Paume.