Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry – Profile

Michel Gondry is an academy award winning screenwriter, director and advertising genius. He was born on the 8th of May in 1963. Know he is noted as a father figure of vast visual styles and manipulation of mise en scene.

His filmmaking career began with producing stylish music video for a French rock band called Oui Oui; he also served as a skillful drummer in the band. From these small-scale music videos he caught the eye of huge star, Bjork. Bjork asked him to direct the video for her song called Human behavior. This work collaboration became often as Gondry has directed seven videos for Bjork. Michel has also worked with Daft punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brother, Radiohead and Beck. He has created a well sought after collection of TV adverts. Whilst creating and evolving “Bullet-time” which is used in his amazing advert for Smirnoff Vodka, this technique was then used in The Matrix, which boosted its popularity.

Michel is known for his influx from music video to feature film along with Spike Jonze and David Fincher. Gondry mad e his first feature film in 2001 called Human Nature, which received mix reviews. In 2004 he worked with a screenwriter called Charlie Kaufman making Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and had many favorable reviews and become one of the most critically acclaimed films of that year. The film had image manipulating techniques that Michel had experimented with in his Music Videos. Michel Gondry won an Academy award for screenplay.

Short films

• L'expedition fatale (1986)
• Jazzmosphère (1987)
• My Brother's 24th Birthday (1988)
• La lettre (1998)
• The Letter
• One Day... (2001)
• Pecan Pie (2003)
• Ossamuch! - Kishu & Co. (2004)
• Tiny (2004)
• Three Dead People (2004)
• Drumb and Drumber (2004)
• Michel Gondry Solves a Rubik's Cube with his Nose (2007)
• Tôkyô!: Interior Design (2008)