http://www.motorballer.org/beyond random thoughts I occasionally put down Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:22:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.motorballer.org/beyond/2009/06/08/dvd-a-day-16-the-work-of-michael-gondry/ http://www.motorballer.org/beyond/2009/06/08/dvd-a-day-16-the-work-of-michael-gondry/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:52:15 +0000 .Pi http://www.motorballer.org/beyond/?p=567 One of the collections in the Director’s Label series of DVDs, this collects 27 music videos, miscellaneous stories, and a 75 minute film, though for the purposes of this, and my particular interests, I’m only looks at the music videos (someday I’ll get back to the rest of the material, probably about the time I do the same for the Spike Lee collection). From Daft Punk’s Around the World, the White Stripes videos, and The Science of Sleep, I knew he was living in a world of his own, but until sitting down with this, I had now idea of much of an understatement that was. Each video finds itself doing something completely different from the last, and so even if you don’t like what he’s doing with the one you’re watching, chances are there’ll be something to like in the next. Consistent through each video there’s absolutely meticulous construction to it all, no matter how lo-fi it looks, and an unbelievably amazing talent for manipulating the camera. Even the animations carry a uniquely Gondry vibe to them as he shifts from medium to medium. Lots of stuff I’ve never seen here before, and I can easily say that I appreciate him much more now, a savant of the whimsical, as it were. Honestly, my only complaint is the Bjork overload, with 6 music videos from her, and that’s really only because she herself creeps me the hell out.

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