Michel Gondry

About Michel Gondry

His music videos are known for being filmed in one shot and he also uses lots of stop motion.

He was born in 1963 in France and is a film, commercial and music video director

Feature FilmsHuman Nature (2001)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)The Science of Sleep (2006)Be Kind Rewind (2008)The Green Hornet (2010)Megalomania (tbc)

Artists who have collaborated with Gondry more than once include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead and Beck.

His career began with creatingstop-motion animation music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui in which he was the drummer.

The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of Bjork who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". Gondry directed seven music videos for Björk.

Music Videos• "Junior Et Sa Voix D'Or" – Oui Oui(1988)• "Queen for a Day" - The Life of Riley (1989)• "Human Behaviour” - Bjork(1993)• "Fire On Babylon" – Sinead O Connor (1994)• "Protection" - Massive Attack (1995)• "Hyper-Balad" - Bjork(1996)• "A Change Would Do You Good" – Sheryl Crow (1997)• "Gimme Shelter" - The Rolling Stones (1998)• "Let Forever Be" – The Chemical Brothers (1999)• "Knives Out" - Radiohead (2001)• "Fell in Love with a Girl" – The White Stripes (2002)• (The video won three MTV Video Music Awards in 2002: Breakthrough Video, Best

Special Effects, and Best Editing).• "Come Into My World" - Kylie Minogue (2002)• "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" - The White Stripes (2002)• "Mad World” (Donnie Darko soundtrack version) – Gary Jules (2004)• "Heard 'Em Say" (U.S. Version) - Kanye West (2005)• "Cellphone's Dead" - Beck (2006)• "Dance Tonight – Paul McCartney (2007)• "Too Many Dicks On The Dancefloor" & "Carol Brown" (unofficial videos) – Flight of the

Conchords (2009)

Massive Attack - Protection

The lyrics aren’t related to what’s filmed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo

The video starts with a toy being on the floor which is then picked up by the same girl in the life (at ground level), then the camera follows people in the life and the music video ends with showing one of the people going down in the lift and back to the ground

There’s a link to Goodwin’s theory, as there’s voyeurism, because the camera goes into different people’s room

One Shot

The slow movement of the camera goes with the slow beat of the music

Massive Attack - Protectionmusic video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6xxjqPKmw

Bjork - Human Behaviour

Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuwiYq50gwA

Intertextual link with ‘Goldielocks and the 3 bears’

The lyrics reflect on human nature and emotion from an animal's point of view.

I like this music video, because it’s quite surreal and uses animation and I really like the parts which have another image on her forehead, as though you’re looking into what she’s thinking

The White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl Parts of the video were made by filming Meg and Jack swimming, running up/down stairs and performing with a normal camera, then were pixelated in editing and others were stop frame animation using Lego pieces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27BfBkRHbs

Quick editing

I really like this music video, because you can still recognise the people by the colours being used - The White Strips use red, white and black in a lot of their music videos