I can't actually believe that I hadn't heard of Michel Gondry before now, but having researched I realize i have seen loads of his music videos. Michel Gondry is a like a god, and definitely my new hero!
There is a great deal written about Gondry on the net here and here which i won't just simply rewrite, however this Paragraph from the Partizan site pretty much sums things up well: "Simply known as the director whose work makes other directors cry, Michel Gondry sets the standard in everything he does. His groundbreaking videos for artists including the White Stripes, Bjork, The Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk, have won him every music video award available, and he is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the director of the commercial that has won the most prizes in the world, including the Grand Prix at Cannes, three silvers at D&AD and the best campaign at BTAA (Levi’s Drugstore). He has also completed three feature films, Human Nature, the Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the recently completed The Science of Sleep, which was premiered at the Sundance Festival in February 2006."
There are so many aspects of what Gondry does that really interest me I'm not sure where to start. His Music Videos for Kanye West Beck and Daft Punk and The White Stripes are all familiar as are his adverts for Smirnoff and Levis.
My View:
Gondry has a particular visual style which is immediately noticeable even from the first frames of any of his films, manipulating the mise en scene and setting the mood so well. His technical work and editing to music is so naturally handled. I would really love to be involved in work like this some way one day.
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