Music performance, 2020
Mette Nyseter holds a degree in documentary directing from the TV School in Lillehammer and a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo. She has extensive experience as a director, cinematographer, editor and journalist, working for companies such as NRK, Pandora Film, Strix and Mastiff. Since 2016 she has taught directing at the TV School, exploring how embodied engagement can boost creative processes, learning and artistic development through role play, improv and simulation.
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Conference poster, 2026
Exploring Authentic Anonymity in Documentary Film through AI
This artistic research project explores whether AI-based audiovisual transformation can offer a viable and ethically responsible way to anonymise real people in documentary film, protecting participants’ identity while preserving perceived authenticity in their human presence on screen. Conventional anonymisation methods such as heavy blurring, pixelation and strong voice distortion often strip away facial expressions, body language, emotional intensity and relational dynamics that give the material its meaning, and can introduce stigma or associations with crime, danger or shame. The project investigates whether AI can protect identity without erasing the embodied expressions, emotional nuances and relational dynamics that make documentary material meaningful. Through a pilot study, we test selected AI tools and approaches, examine how well they retain expression, gesture, interaction, voice and environmental context, and identify key technical, ethical and legal challenges. The outcomes include proof-of-concept examples, a preliminary anonymisation workflow, and a framework for a larger multidisciplinary research project on ethical, cinematic and technological approaches to anonymisation in documentary practice. The project draws on extensive video recordings from an ongoing artistic research project on role-play and embodied methods in documentary practice and education at the TV School in Lillehammer, providing a concrete use case through which the possibilities and limitations of AI-mediated anonymisation can be explored. You can read more about this project here: https://www.inn.no/english/research/research-projects/Role-playing-for-documentarists/ RESEARCH TEAM Mette Nyseter – Project leader, University of Inland Norway, the TV School Andrew Michael Davidson – Research advisor, University of Inland Norway Christian Schüssler – Industry collaborator, Reimagine AS