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Sierra Lapointe looks at how Michel Gondry incorporates elements of Surrealist art practice into his own unique filmmaking style.
Michel Gondry (French: [miʃɛl ɡɔ̃dʁi]; born 8 May 1963) is a French filmmaker noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène. Along with Charlie Kaufman, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which he also ...
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Michel Gondry’s unique visual style is truly a sight to behold. His use of practical effects, stop-motion animation, and hand-drawn elements create a whimsical and dreamlike atmosphere in his films. Gondry’s ability to seamlessly blend reality and fantasy is a testament to his visual genius.
Born in Versailles, France, Gondry was an artist from a very young age. He was an excellent drawer, who would teach his male classmates how to draw naked women. Gondry and his cousin would make rudimentary cartoons and flipbooks together, a fitting beginning to Gondry’s motion picture career.
He is wearing a turquoise sweater with a red plaid shirt, and is fingering a miniature Rubik’s cube, the perfect symbol for this puzzling artist who started out working in the condensed format of...
Dec 10, 2013 · Utilizing traditional stop-motion techniques, Gondry started with a simple dot for an anchor before step-by-step building a full drawing--shooting and reshooting the stills on 16mm.
Nov 8, 2017 · I’m sitting opposite a very candid Michel Gondry inside a former textile factory in Montreal’s Southwest neighbourhood. The space has been converted into a DIY playground by the Chromatic team according to the French filmmaker’s fanciful vision.
