Michel Gondry On Creating A Never-Ending Movie And Working At MIT
By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 21, 2007 11:02 pm EST
Gondry also talks about a film which he wrote (but never shot).
Sounds interesting, but could it work? With Gondry at the helm, anything is possible.
It was one long special effect. “A single scene would be played twice, identically,” Gondry says. “But in the context of the beginning it would mean one thing, and in the context of the ending it would mean something completely different.” The film is a loop, a device Gondry used in Eternal Sunshine and which he draws on again in the structure of Be Kind. “I make a loop because when you reach the end, you come back to the beginning.” He grabs a scrap of yellow paper, tears off a long piece, and bends each end in a different direction, creating a Möbius strip. “You fold a 2-D space into a 3-D space,” he says, holding up the looped paper. “You create a depth that doesn’t exist. It becomes something much closer to what’s in your head.”
