Michel Gondry is a Réalisateur of Cinéma and Vidéo as well as a Musicien. He was born the May 8th 1963 with Versailles (Yvelines, France).

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His/her grandfather, Constant Martin, is the inventor of the Clavioline, one of very first the Synthétiseur S sound in 1947. His/her father was electronics specialist and data processing specialist, impassioned jazz, pianist and organist amateur. Holder of a diploma for the occupation of engineer of Arts and trades, it worked in the industry of telecommunications, before collaborating with Constant Martin. Michel Gondry thus always bathed in the world of the music. Child it wanted to be inventor or painter. He makes his formation with the École Olivier de Serres (School of the applied arts) with Paris. Over there pop Oui-Oui will be born the group, in which it takes the station of Batteur. The group separates in 1992. Gondry carries out the individual clips of several : the City, the Stones , My House . It produces the clip " The voyages immobiles" for Etienne Daho which invites Oui-Oui in first part of its concerts to the Zenith of Paris.

By seeing the Clip the City on MTV, Björk immediately wanted to work with Michel Gondry. It is the beginning of a profitable collaboration: Human Behavior , Army off me , Isobel , Hyperballad , Bachelorette and Joga .

The requests flow: the Rolling Stones ( Like has Rolling Stone ), IAM ( Mia ), Jean-François Coen ( the Tower of Pisa ), rather quickly the Public starts to perceive a “Gondry style” - it should be said that the French Presse starts to speak much about Gondry, it likes the success story of French abroad. This style is not a simple trademark such as for example at Jean-Baptiste Mondino whose clips, with some exceptions, are characterized by a beautiful image, preferably in Noir and white, and a sentimental tone. The “Gondry style” pushes the logic of the video clip to the maximum since on the one hand the author gives himself the right to the experimentation and on the other hand, the music is in the center of each film (and sometimes, more still than the music, the Rythmique). Curiously, the clips produced for Björk are not most typical of this logic of experimentation, it is probable that they really proceed of the telescoping of two musical universes, that of Björk and that of Gondry itself. It is possible also that the character of Björk is sufficiently strong or attractive to impose clips which show it…

There is often a little impresses at Gondry, of the effects which astonish the professional by the image more still than the public: how does it do that? It should be said that Gondry avoids applying the solutions ready-made clothes, it invents its own work tools. And even when it uses techniques for which tools Logiciel S or materials exist, there does it in very personal manner, it is for example the case with the Morphage: whereas the Advertizing S or other authors of clips were focused on the transformation of a person with another (a Homme who becomes a Femme, a Animal which becomes about it another…), Gondry uses the morphage to interpolate ways of Caméra ( Mia ) or to transform vidéos into object Abstrait S ( Like has Rolling Stone ). In this last clip, the morphage is also used to simulate movements starting from fixed photographs. It seems that the effects of stopped images (realized by means of hundreds of synchronized cameras) such as one sees some in the film Matrix are an invention of Michel Gondry for a publicity of the mark Smirnoff, which makes of Gondry a Méliès or a Marey of today.

The cinema

Gondry had already carried out two court-measurings of which the Letter in 1998, which is noticed. In 2001, Gondry leaves the Long-métrage Human Nature , with Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans and Tim Robbins, according to a Scénario of Charlie Kaufman which had already written In the skin of John Malkovich for Spike Jonze (another very creative Clippeur ). The film is a philosophical Fable on the kinds and the poor wretch Human condition vis-a-vis the Sexualité. In 2004, it off carries out Eternal Sunshine the Spotless Mind , with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, always on a scenario of Charlie Kaufman, and, this time, on an idea of the artist Pierre Bismuth. The film will receive the Oscar of the best scenario and will make it possible Gondry to confirm its talent. For the Science of the Dreams , left in August 2006, it returns on the side of the France since the film is at the same time made in French and English with actors frenchies of which Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou and Emma de Caunes. Gael García Bernal is also of the part, it holds the main role to with it. For this film, Michel Gondry took part only in the scenario.

One of the characteristics of the work of Michel Gondry is the refusal of the Compromission S: if a musician or his Recording company accepts an experimental video clip but asks Gondry to intercalate closes-up on the Visage of the Chanteur, Gondry refuses, and this Intégrité was never contradicted except in the field of the Publicité, if ungrateful for the creators who never control the final Montage which is made their images (for example, in an advertizing for the jean Levi's, moreover very beautiful visually, the Bande-son is changed: all the effort of Synchro between image and its and all the direction which results from this disappear…). In the advertizing field, Gondry has a Chef-d'oeuvre all the same: its pubs for Air France, on Asleep from day , a planing music of the Chemical Brothers, interpreted by Hope Sandoval.

With each one of its new inventions, Gondry is imitated, but it seems that its reserve with ideas is bottomless.

An anthological DVD makes it possible to have an idea right of the Talent of Michel Gondry: Directors Series, The work off director Michel Gondry .

Others

In November 2005, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth inaugurate with the Cosmic Galerie (Paris) a video installation entitled The All Seeing Eye ( the eye which sees all ). The camera sweeps a part, apparently buckles some, but objects disappear regularly until the place is completely Vide. The projector turns on its axis and carries out a race comparable with that which the camera carries out. He is also the realizer of the famous advertizing for Nescafe with George Clooney " What else? "

Films

• 2001 : Natural Human
• 2004: Eternal Sunshine off the Spotless Mind (Oscar of the best scenario)
• 2006: the Science of the dreams ( The Science off Sleep )
• 2006: Dave Chappelle' S Block Party (documentary musical)
• 2007: Be Kind Rewind , its fifth film with Jack Black, and Mos Def

Albums of the Oui-Oui group

• Each one everyone
• Formidable

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For Oui-Oui

• the City: nostalgia of the years 1970…
• the Stones
• My House : insects as if you were

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For Björk

• Human Behaviour : clip ecologist which announces off certain images of “Human Nature”
• Army me
• Isobel
• Hyperballad
• Bachelorette : one of the rare scenarized clips of Gondry
• Joga : the superb Icelandic landscapes
• Declares Independence : preview on December 10th, 2007 on gate Internet AOL

For The White Stripes

• Fell in coils with has girl : legos like pixels.
• Dead leaves and the dirty ground : memory of the walls, in projection.
• The hardest short prop to short prop : the rhythmic one of the song is marked with the image.
• The Denial Twist : play on the prospects.

For the Chemical Brothers

• Let forever Be : a kaleidoscope “live”
• Star Guitar : Each element of the landscape is synchronized with a sound.

For The Fortify

• "Winning Days" : Gondry uses the technique of stop-motion.
• " Ride" : Gondry exploits crowd and her disappearance.

Others

• for Etienne Daho, " The voyages immobiles" : onirism and homage have Lynch and Clouzot
• for Cibo Matto, Sugar Water : one of the bets most insane of Gondry, the filmed sequence is read at the place and back and however remains synchronized
• for Kylie Minogue, Like into my World : clip into only one Sequence shot turned in an urban crossroads. The camera rotates while Kylie Minogue walks around. Each one of its movements and the movements of the passers by returns in loop to each passage of the camera, giving place to a multitude of identical people making of the different things without never touching itself.
• for Daft Punk, Around the world : each sound, each instrument, corresponds to the image with a character moving. A graphic and choreographic clip. The lights in background are ordered by the proper brother of Michel Gondry. Choreography is of Blanca Li
• for IAM, Mia : clip in stop motion.
• for Jean-François Coen, the tower of Pisa : Karaoké containing signs.
• for the Rolling Stones, Like has Rolling Stone : the clip in which the effects special of Matrix were found.
• for Beck, Deadweight : Beck with an office with the beach then in long chair at the office. Music of the film a less ordinary life.
• for Beck, again, Cellphone' S dead : Beck is in a part, buildings go, etc Gondry was also given the responsability with the final assembly in order to give the impression of a long sequence shot.
• for Lacquer, Behind : realized with his/her Olivier brother, in sequence shot.
• for Radiohead, Knives out , inspired by an episode of its life, again in sequence shot.
• for the Foo Fighters, Everlong , embroidering on the topic of the permeability enters the dream and reality.
• for Robert, the skirts , in which Gondry gears down the singer.
• for Paul McCartney, Dance Tonight which puts in the high-speed motorboat Nathalie Portman and Mackenzie Crook. Choreography of Blanca Li
• and also: Black Desire, Massive Attack, Neneh Cherry, Sheryl Crow, Wyclef Jean, Steriogram, Kanye West, Devendra Banhart etc

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