Born on the 8th May 1963 in France, Michel Gondry is a prestigious film, music video and commercial director. Gondry has also been accredited Academy Awards for Screenwriting. Audiences are familiar with his work due to his noticeable visual style and manipulation of mise en scéne. Gondry is extraordinarily infamous for his music videos: “Heard ‘em Say” - Kanye West, “Fell in Love with a Girl” - The White Stripes and “Around the World” performed by Daft Punk (shown below).
Gondry also allowed the film industry to advance massively. He was the director to invent the technique of several cameras taking pictures in the same time around the subject. This technique was used for the first time in a commercial for insurance and in Bjork’s “Army of Me” video. Although the technique became infamous in the film Matrix (1999 - Bullet Time). Also, Gondry was a pioneer for the morphing techniques which he developed through “Je danse le Mia” (shown below).
“Sometimes it’s better to have less money [for budget] and more freedom” - Michel Gondry
“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid” - Michel Gondry
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