Michel Gondry made his name and creative vision by directing videos for Icelandic pixie matron Björk, but he hasn’t made a video for her in over a decade (the last one was “Bachelorette” in 1997). But they recently teamed up again as Gondry directed the video for her distortion-heavy fly-your-freak-flag track “Declare Independence” from the abstruse album Volta (their 7th video together). Spinner got their hands on the making of the video, so we thought we’d share.
What’s next for Gondry? A bunch of projects apparently. He’s making a documentary about his aunt that will include animation (“She’s amazing… She’s 80 years old. Most of the schools she taught in don’t exist anymore but we went on location to them”), he’s making an animated film with his son, and he’s currently in Tokyo shooting, “Interior Design,” – his segement for the cinematic tryptych vignettes film “Tôkyô!” Oh, and of course his next feature film, “Be Kind Rewind,” comes out in January 2008.
Other Gondry Björk videos:
Watch: Björk – “Isobel”
Watch: Björk – “Hyperballad”
Watch: Björk – “Human Behavior”