Michael Gondry is a French filmmaker known for directing unconventionally edited music videos that depict a dream-like reality, including videos for bands like Foo Fighters, The White Stripes, and The Rolling Stones. While starting his career with music videos, he is now also a film director. His diverse visual style and focus on experimental filming and editing techniques have led some to consider him a video auteur.

1. Music Video Auteurs

2. Background
• Michael Gondry was born in
Versailles, France, May 8th 1963.
• He started as a film maker by making a msuic
video for the band Oui Oui.
• He now also makes films as well as music
videos.

3. Similarities
• Gondry directed the music video for Foo Fighters
“Everlong” and The White Stripes “Button To
Button” and The Rolling Stones “Like A Rolling
Stone.”
• In all of the videos, the filming and the cuts were
all very unconventional.
• The effect given to the audience is that the videos
are representative of dreams.
• An example of this is the video for “Everlong”
where he shows the real world in black and
white.

4. Is he an auteur?
• I think it is fair to say that Michael Gondry is a
video auteur due to his diverse style of filming
and editing.
• His videos are all unconventional
• He focuses majorly on mise en scene and
visual effects.