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2. The White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl
No Michel Gondry Music Video list would be complete without mentioning this classic. Even if you don’t know it by name you will by the mention of one word – LEGO! Fell In Love With A Girl was the first of many videos that Gondry worked with the 2 piece. This was actually by accident as Jack White had been interested in working with the director of Beck’s “Devil’s Haircut”, Mark Romanek, but their record company hired Gondry by mistake. In the end though White didn’t mind as he was a fan of Gondry and Beck’s video “Deadweight”
The video is like stop motion animation of Meg and Jack White performing in that it was shot frame by frame and featured LEGO rebuilding. This was often in a very complicated manner to give the illusion of movement. The video also cleverly matches the colours that The White Stripes always dress in and use on their CD artwork – red, white and black.
3. Radiohead – Knives Out This video features Thom Yorke at a hospital bedside occupied by his partner (played by Emma De Caunes. Imagine the game of operation done for real with real doctors and that is pretty much what you get from this video. Doctors work on the female patient and take all her organs out one by one like the classic board game, as Thom Yorke towards the end turns into a skeleton with a huge heart instead of a head. Gondry has explained that the video is not connected to the song’s lyrics as many have suggested, but that it is autobiographical and a recollections of an ex-girlfriend. Another notable thing is that the video was shot in one take, which remarkable considering the amount of scene changes.
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Michel Gondry: A Look At The Extraordinary Music Video Pioneer and Filmmaker
Pioneering film and music director Michel Gondry is notable for creating artistic works that are anything but mediocre. His childlike imagery and innovative, truly groundbreaking and inventive approaches to motion, film, and animation raised
The video is like stop motion animation of Meg and Jack White performing in that it was shot frame by frame and featured LEGO rebuilding. This was often in a very complicated manner to give the illusion of movement. The video also cleverly matches the colours that The White Stripes always dress in and use on their CD artwork – red, white and black.
3. Radiohead – Knives Out This video features Thom Yorke at a hospital bedside occupied by his partner (played by Emma De Caunes. Imagine the game of operation done for real with real doctors and that is pretty much what you get from this video. Doctors work on the female patient and take all her organs out one by one like the classic board game, as Thom Yorke towards the end turns into a skeleton with a huge heart instead of a head. Gondry has explained that the video is not connected to the song’s lyrics as many have suggested, but that it is autobiographical and a recollections of an ex-girlfriend. Another notable thing is that the video was shot in one take, which remarkable considering the amount of scene changes.
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Michel Gondry: A Look At The Extraordinary Music Video Pioneer and Filmmaker
Pioneering film and music director Michel Gondry is notable for creating artistic works that are anything but mediocre. His childlike imagery and innovative, truly groundbreaking and inventive approaches to motion, film, and animation raised