Michel gondry

As a young man, he liked to draw and imagine inventions. His favorite toys were the meccano and Lego constructions, and with some household items he devised a kind of zoetrope to make cartoons. With the help of an architect cousin, he thought of making artifacts that would give a stereoscopic or three-dimensional effect.

In the 1980s, he entered a Parisian art school, where he developed his graphic taste, while forming a musical band called Oui-Oui, which released two albums. It was precisely for his band that he created his first music videos, which would open the doors to do the same for other singers and groups, beginning with the groundbreaking “Human Behaviour” for the Icelandic Björk in 1993. Then the orders would rain down, from Massive Attack or the Paul McCartney himself . At the same time, he developed a successful career in the advertising world, shooting spots for Levi’s, Coca Cola, Nike, Air France, Adidas and a long list of other companies.

His debut as a fiction feature film came in 2001 from the hand of Human Nature , whose script had been written by someone almost as “Martian” as him, screenwriter Charlie Kauffman. Both would collaborate again in 2004 in Forget me! , original and surreal love story whose screenplay was awarded an Oscar. From here on, their careers disassociate, and Gondry undertakes two more fiction films, La ciencia del sueño , and Rebobine, por favor . The latter, as well as hooliganism, would be said to be infused with autobiographical elements in the home-making of Swedish films.