Sunday, October 25, 2009

french revolutionary.


Michel Gondry is a supergod of the video world. Despite having created amazing full-length features, he remains legendary as the director of your favorite commercials and music videos and master of inventive visuals that blow your mind every single time. His 2001 video for The Chemical Brothers' "Star Guitar" features a simple continuous shot of a view out a moving train, except every beat, crescendo, musical flourish of the song is synchronized to the images passing by. Gondry creates a visual orchestration, so you're literally seeing the music while you hear it. Brilliant concept (similarly used in his 1997 video for Daft Punk's "Around the World") and a complete mindfuck for proper sensory perception.

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