Resfest Screening: Michel Gondry

Sa-Nocturne 31.7.04 mit den Kurzfilmen von ETERNAL SUNSHINE-Regisseur Michel Gondry. Einmalige Vorstellung

RESfest, das weltweit tourende Digital Film Festival, gastiert Ende November 04 erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum - im Riffraff. Als kleiner Vorgeschmack und aus Anlass des Schweizer Kinostarts von "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" von Michel Gondry findet bereits im Vorfeld des Festivals ein RESfest Screening statt: Am 31. Juli 04 zeigt das Kino Riffraff in einer einmaligen Nocturne-Vorführung die "MICHEL GONDRY Retrospective" aus dem RESfest-Programm 03. Die reichhaltige Kompilation vereint die preisgekrönten und innovativen Clips, Kurz- und Werbefilme von Michel Gondry.

Around The World / Daft Punk
Bachelorette / Björk
Come Into My World / Kylie Minogue
Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground / White Stripes
Drugstore / Levi's
Drumb and Drumber (short film)
Everlong / Foo Fighters
Fell in Love with a Girl / White Stripes
Human Behavior / Björk
Knives Out / Radiohead
La Tour de Pise / Jean Francois Coen
La Ville / Oui Oui
Le Mia / I Am
Leo / Nike
Les Cailloux / Oui Oui
Let Forever Be / The Chemical Brothers
Like a Rolling Stone / Rolling Stones
Privacy / Earthlink
Resignation / Polaroid
Smarienberg / Smirnoff
Star Guitar / The Chemical Brothers
Sugar Water / Cibo Matto
Swap / Levi's
Timelapse Test

Michel Gondry's early precision with geometric concepts and his roots as a post-art school Parisian rock drummer are not the only factors setting the world-renowned visual innovator apart. Indeed, Gondry's ongoing collaborations with Björk and The White Stripes succinctly suggest his seemingly inexhaustible well of visually and conceptually profound ideas and his understanding of what it takes to harness the visual medium to attain maximum impact. Never before seen special effects - both wildly inventive in-camera creations and the groundbreaking digital techniques created in tandem with his younger brother Olivier "Twist" - have also come to be synonymous with any new Gondry video clip. Gondry's inspired projects invariably involve one part science and one part punk rock DIY, which has, unsurprisingly, earned the director a place in the upper echelon of not only music video creators, but also in advertising and, increasingly, feature film. This retrospective presents Gondry's earliest videos created for his own band, Oui Oui, tests revealing the director's prescient explorations of seminal effects (such as the "frozen moment"), groundbreaking commercials and, of course, a smorgasbord of music video magic, including Gondry's latest for The White Stripes' "The Hardest Button to Button."