Oh how I love Michel Gondry. I truly believe he is one of the most creative and talented people alive now and anything he touches is gold.
His latest work is a collaboration with graphic artist Julie Doucet and merges graphic novel with cinematic storytelling. The book comes packaged with a DVD and both are a necessary accompaniment to the other to tell the story of Gondry meeting with Doucet.
Doucet had already produced "My New York Diary," an autobiographical comic-book novel, when Gondry proposed making a film with her drawings as the film's setting and vehicle and her acting in her own story. Their discussion of making the 20 minute film ended up becoming the plot and thus "My New New York Diary" was born.
As Phuong-Cac Nguyen writes for Cool Hunting: The story "begins with Doucet talking to Gondry from her home in Montreal before meeting and staying with him in NYC, where they film her in front of a blue screen. She buys a digital recorder and records her observations on everything from Gondry's quarrels with his housemate to her reluctance at acting in her own story.
After a few days in New York, Doucet returned back to Canada, where she did dozens of drawings. Gondry edited everything, including her narration, and turned her drawings into something live—a talent he previously exemplified so well with 'Science of Sleep.'"
Caroline
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