Michel Gondry is a French filmmaker noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scene.
19 Facts About Michel Gondry
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Michel Gondry has directed music videos for Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Kanye West, Bjork, Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue, Idles, and The White Stripes.
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The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Michel Gondry directing a total of eight music videos for Bjork.
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Michel Gondry pioneered the "bullet time" technique later adapted in The Matrix in the 1996 "Smarienberg" commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed advertisements for clothing retailer Gap.
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Michel Gondry made his feature film debut in 2001 with Human Nature, garnering mixed reviews.
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Eternal Sunshine utilizes many of the image manipulation techniques that Michel Gondry had experimented with in his music videos.
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Michel Gondry won an Academy Award alongside Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth for the screenplay of Eternal Sunshine.
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Michel Gondry directed the musical documentary Dave Chappelle's Block Party which followed comedian Dave Chappelle as he attempted to hold a large, free concert in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Michel Gondry's following film, The Science of Sleep, hit theaters in September 2006.
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Michel Gondry was asked by French comic duet Eric and Ramzy to direct Seuls Two, but declined; by his suggestion, Eric and Ramzy subsequently asked Mr Oizo to direct another movie, Steak.
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In September 2006, Michel Gondry made his debut as an installation artist at Deitch Projects in New York City's SoHo gallery district.
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Michel Gondry was an Artist in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2006.
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Later directing the music video for the Paul McCartney song "Dance Tonight", in which Michel Gondry makes a cameo appearance.
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Michel Gondry directed "Unnatural Love", the fifth episode in season two of HBO's Flight of the Conchords.
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In 2011, Michel Gondry directed The Green Hornet, a superhero film by Sony starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou and Christoph Waltz; Rogen co-wrote the script.
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On 3 January 2013, Michel Gondry released his latest animated short Haircut Mouse on his official Vimeo channel.
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Michel Gondry produced the video for Metronomy's single "Love Letters", taken from the album of the same name.
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Michel Gondry's brother Olivier "Twist" Gondry is a television commercial and music video director creating videos for bands such as The Stills, Hot Hot Heat, Daft Punk and The Vines.
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Michel's son Paul Gondry is an artist, actor, and film director as well.