{"id":567,"date":"2009-06-08T03:52:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T08:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-06-09T02:51:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T07:51:17","slug":"dvd-a-day-16-the-work-of-michael-gondry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/2009\/06\/08\/dvd-a-day-16-the-work-of-michael-gondry\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD-A-Day 16 &#8211; The Work of Michael Gondry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the collections in the <span class=\"title\">Director&#8217;s Label<\/span> 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&#8217;m only looks at the music videos (someday I&#8217;ll get back to the rest of the material, probably about the time I do the same for the <span class=\"name\">Spike Lee<\/span> collection).  From <span class=\"name\">Daft Punk&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"title\">Around the World<\/span>, the <span class=\"name\">White Stripes<\/span> videos, and <span class=\"title\">The Science of Sleep<\/span>, 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&#8217;t like what he&#8217;s doing with the one you&#8217;re watching, chances are there&#8217;ll be something to like in the next.  Consistent through each video there&#8217;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 <span class=\"name\">Gondry<\/span> vibe to them as he shifts from medium to medium.  Lots of stuff I&#8217;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 <span class=\"name\">Bjork<\/span> overload, with 6 music videos from her, and that&#8217;s really only because she herself creeps me the hell out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the collections in the Director&#8217;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&#8217;m only looks at the music videos (someday I&#8217;ll get back to the rest of the material, probably about the time I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[1219,1217,1229,1218,1223,1230,1231,1234,1233,1228,1232,1227,1216,1222,1221,1226,1224,1225,1220],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-beck","tag-bjork","tag-chemical-brothers","tag-daft-punk","tag-directors-label","tag-foo-fighters","tag-gibo-matto","tag-i-am","tag-jean-francois-coen","tag-kylie-minogue","tag-lucas","tag-massive-attack","tag-michael-gondry","tag-music-video","tag-oui-oui","tag-rolling-stones","tag-science-of-sleep","tag-spike-lee","tag-white-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->