Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon interests me more as a philosophy than a filmmaker. With The Take-Away Shows, launched in 2006, he reimagined how music is filmed, capturing performances by artists such as R.E.M. and Arcade Fire in stripped-down, intimate settings rather than polished studios. That Paris origin and the photographer's eye come through in the way his work feels handmade and location-driven. I appreciate artists who reject the industrial pipeline and chase something rawer, and his 2009 portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa, which won the Sound and Vision Award at CPH:DOX, shows that the instinct behind his approach carries into feature-length work too.

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Name (English)

Vincent Moon

Name (Japanese)

ヴィンセント・ムーン

Reading

ゔぃんせんと・むーん

Born

August 25, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

film director / photographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

• Official sitehttps://www.vincentmoon.com
• Xhttps://x.com/vincentmoon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q977743

Tags

• film director
• photographer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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