Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry ( born May 8, 1963 in Versailles, France ) is a French film, commercial and music video director, and screenwriter. Together with Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth he was not in 2005 for his screenplay for the film Forget Me! awarded the Oscar for best original screenplay.

Life and work

The grandfather of Michel Gondry, Constant Martin (1910-1995), was the inventor of Clavioline, a precursor of today's synthesizers. Gondry's father was an electronics and computer scientists. He has a degree from the École nationale supérieure des arts today appliqués et des métiers d'art (L' ENSAAMA ).

Michel Gondry has taken over the music scene but also with innovative music videos a name. He directed videos for, among others, Björk, Sinéad O'Connor, The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Neneh Cherry, Sheryl Crow, Beck, Foo Fighters, Wyclef Jean, Steriogram, Lacquer.

His first video he shot for the French band Oui oui. The international breakthrough came in 1993 with the video for Björk's single Human Behaviour.

The first directed a feature film production led Gondry on Human Nature ( 2001). The script for this as well as the next Gondry's film, forget me not! Came from Charlie Kaufman. The screenplay, which was also Gondry and Pierre Bismuth cooperated, was awarded the 2005 Academy Award.

For the first time alone wrote a screenplay Gondry for the tragicomedy Science of Sleep - How to Dream (2006), in which he also directed. The autobiographical film about a young man who dreams and reality can not tell them apart and in his neighbor finds love, he turned in his native France.

Gondry directed the 3D film The Green Hornet (2011), a comic book adaptation with Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz. In the same year, he leads the jury for the short film competition and series Cinéfondation the 64th Cannes Film Festival.

2013 turned Gondry the fantasy drama The foam of the day, based on the novel by Boris Vian. In the same year appeared Is the Man Who Is Happy Tall? An animated documentary about Noam Chomsky.

Gondry was a member of the jury of the International Film Festival Berlin 2014.

Style

One of his trademarks in music videos is the playful yet precise synchronization of motion in the video with musical elements. Prime examples of this are the videos Around the World ( Daft Punk), The Hardest Button to Button ( White Stripes ) and Star Guitar ( Chemical Brothers ).

This playful precise approach is considered in the case of Around the World in such a way that perform on a stage design different groups of people at every use of her tone a specific, suitable for music, movement.

In The Hardest Button to Button, the synchronization of movements to music shows by the fact that the decor of the two musicians in the rhythm of the music on and breaks down and moves away in pattern form on roads, subway trains and meadows.

Star Guitar in turn consists of a single camera setting: the view from the train window, before passing by the scenery. Each of this emerging landscape element, be it trees, poles or railway passing trains is, trick technically manipulated so that it corresponds exactly to the rhythm of the music and each can be assigned to a particular musical element.

Another example of Gondry's ingenuity is the video for Everlong ( Foo Fighters ), which reflects the recurring daydream fantasy Gondry's in a playful way.

Videography (selection)

Filmography

  • 2001: Human Nature
  • 2004: Do not forget mine! ( Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind )
  • 2005: Block Party
  • 2006: The Science of Sleep - How to Dream ( La Science des rêves )
  • 2008: Be Kind Rewind ( Be Kind Rewind )
  • 2011: The Green Hornet
  • 2012: The We and the I
  • 2013: The foam of the day (L' écume des jours )
  • 2013: Is the Man Who Is Happy Tall?

Film about Michel Gondry:

  • 2003: The Work of Director Michel Gondry - A Collection of Music Videos, Short Films, Documentaries and Stories

Awards (selection)

Deauville American Film Festival Versailles (city) The Green Hornet (2011 film) IAM (Band) Stardust (Band) Metronomy Dave Chappelle's Block Party 77th Academy Awards Integrated Authority File
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