Michel Gondry
Gondry was born in France. He started out as a drummer in a French rock band called oui oui. He was very inspired by the film Le Voyage Balloon. He said ‘When I watch this movie, I dream I’m flying and then I do stories where people are flying. I think it’s directly influencing.’
He started creating music videos for his band, which caught the attention of famous music artist Bjork. Gondry soon went on to direct a total of 7 music videos for Bjork before moving onto directing music videos for other artist such as; Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, Radio Head, and Beck.
He pioneered the bullet time technique, which was later, used in the Matrix trilogy of films. In 1998 he created an advert for Smirnoff vodka using this technique. In 2001 he directed his first feature film Human Nature with mixed reviews, after this he also directed Eternal of the Spotless mind, the Science of Sleep and most recently The Green Hornet.
Gondry has directed many feature films, shorts, documentaries, music videos and advertisements. He has garnered much respect for his unique style of directing and has become quite famous for this.
Foo Fighters – Everlong
This video proves Auter Theory as the video is very different to a usual video but it features some cool effects with the transition from dream to reality shown by water being run in front of the camera and the visuals switching from black and white to colour.
During the fights between the guy and the beast men the guy manages to increase his hand size which is not a usual part of a music video and isn’t seen any where else. Gondry’s vision for this video comes through as there are many parts of the video where things fall apart changing scene or at the end changing to a performance after ripping off their costumes and props falling apart.
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