Research of Michel Gondry, Auteur music video director




Michel Gondry 
French director, screenwriter and producer
Number of music videos made: 90 

Style: innovative use of mise en scene and recursion (repetition)

He is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue and The White Stripes.

A particular example of recursion could be the music video Around the World by Daft Punk, where each group of dancers is used to signify a specific part of the music, particularly specific instruments

He uses people’s movements to signify separate instruments. He also used colours and dancing to signify different parts of the music/instruments. Creative videos with a lot of physical theatre. In one music video (song called behind by Lacquer), a sped up, over the shoulder shot is used throughout the music video to match the name of the song.


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