Michel Gondry

                                    Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry was  born May 8, 1963 in Versilles , France.He is well known for his film directing, and producing as well as  his  being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en sence. His film making career began with directing music videos for  french rock band of which he was a drummer in and his work caught the attention of a music artist Bjork who then asked him to direct a music video for himself. This collaboration resulted a creation of eight music videos all together for the artist Bjork.  He also worked with other artist such as Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines and many more. He also has worked on TV commercials and pioneered the bullet time technique which has become very populer.  Gondry also made adverts for GAP, Smimoff, Air France, Nike, Coca Cola, Addias, Polaroid, and Levi.

In 2001 Gondry directed his first feature movie, Human Nature, in which Spike Jonze suggested the studio to direct the movie. In 2004 Gondry received his first Oscar award for directing the film Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Lastly, Gondry came up with the idea of placing several cameras around someone and taking a picture at the same time, this idea is created in Bjork's Army of me, music video
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The Chemical brothers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FyfQDO5g0

Links to videos:
Daft punk around the world :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4