Vincent Moon
Directing
Biography
Vincent Moon, born Mathieu Saura, is a French independent filmmaker, photographer, and sound artist.
Known For

A mini-documentary about avant-garde Japanese musician Kazuki Tomokawa. Tomokawa is a prolific Japanese musician, active in the Japanese music scene since the early 1970s. He is often described as a "screaming philosopher" due to his idiosyncratic singing style. His music has been used in the films of cult directors Takashi Miike and Koji Wakamatsu, and he also appears in person in Miike's Izo (2004).
La faute des fleurs: A Portrait of Kazuki Tomokawa
A short musical film on the Old Harp tradition from East Tennessee, shot around a gathering in a church of the Smoky Mountains
Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee

In this DVD, you'll discover Beirut's latest album go live. On September, Chryde and Vincent Moon went to New York to film the band play all the tracks from the Flying Club Cup in bars, rooms, parks and even in an ice-cream truck garage. In the hour-long movie they brought back, Zach Condon wanders alone in Brooklyn and eventually finds, in each place, his band waiting for him, behind a door, on stairs..
Beirut - Cheap Magic Inside

PEOPLE - THE FILM Vincent Moon’s journey through our magical PEOPLE Festival 2018. These moments out of time, in between spaces, the ritual, the coming together of 200 musicians to create and share to an audience of 5000 people. …all of these communal experiences that we cherish. To help us get through this winter, to remember how great it feels to be close, to sing loud, to cry together, to dance… to joyfully discover what waits behind the next door. For those who experienced this memorable week, those of you who have heard of it and for those who are curious.
PEOPLE 2018 ★ THE FILM

In the spring of 2017, film-makers Vincent Moon and Priscilla Telmon were invited to make a contemporaneous portrait of The Sai Anantam Ashram, the multi-ethnic and multi-generational spiritual community founded in 1983 by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, which included speaking with some of the community's elders, as well as Alice's sister, singer Marilyn McLeod.
ASHRAM: The Spiritual Community of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

A musical portrait of the ethnic minorities of the Crimean peninsula, it explores the sonic diversity from this unique land.
Traces of Crimea

The tecnobrega star Gaby Amarantos performs her musics in her neighbourhood, in Belém, northern Brazil.
Gaby Amarantos: Live in Jurunas

The Scottish band Mogwai performs an incandescent show in front of a stunned crowd. As if time stood still, the audience is transported along by musical waves, both poetic and violent. 'Burning' dives into this wild sensual flow. Directors Vincent Moon and Nathanaël Le Scouarnec guide us into a dream where there is no tomorrow. This is a black and white experience of the senses carved by the raw emotion of this pioneering band that doesn't need any words to touch the heart of its listeners. Layered and innovative, the movie has its finger firmly on their pulse, a sonic adventure between hope and rebellion. A lifetime of feelings in just one night.
Mogwai: Burning

The spiritual power of the music around the world
Rabih Beaini Plays Vincent Moon

WHEN WE ARE BORN is a unique live performance film that tells a touching and thoroughly human story based in part on Ólafur’s life. Filmed on location in Iceland in summer 2020, it features the contributions of an unparalleled creative collective including ground-breaking choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir, the Iceland Dance Company and cinematographer Thor Eliasson. The music in the film builds upon Ólafur’s critically praised new album ‘some kind of peace’ and was performed and recorded live on set, representing a constant cinematic conversation between picture and music. Vincent Moon’s intimate cinematic vision brings this layered metaphorical world to life as we see Ólafur’s music manifested and symbolised all around him through set design, lighting and dance. Through themes of rituals, relationships and exploration of our inner landscapes, this is a film focused on how we all move forward.
When We Are Born
A pregnant young woman is listening the conversation of her table neighbours involuntary. On the first sight its seems to be the banalities of an old couple. But who are they to one another?
Valse à trois

Hanoise is a portrait of the little known, but very rich, experimental music scene from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It showcases a diverse array of the city's musical mavericks and avant-garde explorers, merging the sounds of the city and the experimentations of a young community braving the local cultural prohibitions.
VIET≈NAM ≈ HANOISE

Behind-the-scenes footage and performances of songs from R.E.M.'s album Accelerate.
6 Days

In his cramped living quarters, Bruno S. unearths his trusty accordion and glockenspiel, singing ballads of little horses and wingless angels.
Bruno S. With Devotion
Inspired by the context set by the Covid-19 pandemic, and by the fact that we spent Portuguese Freedom day under a certain confinement, we wanted to find out perspectives on freedom that defy the dominant narratives. So, we challenged filmmakers to create shorts that reflected what freedom means to them today. From Freedom To Freedom is the film that collects the 10 perspectives. At a time when stories move us forward, these are reflections of the essential. Shorts Featured: Your Spaceship by Vasco Mendes, Tema Libre by Felipe Rios Fuentes, I Can't Help by Daniel Brereton, Nothing but the Mountains of the Past by João Diogo Marques, Un Pays Lointain by Vincent Moon and Priscilla Telmon, Some Kind of Connection by Sophy Romvari and Mike Thorn, a day in Bangkok by Nisha Jurairattanaporn, Desabitar by Diana Antunes, 2020 Chimaera by Miguel C. Tavares and José Alberto Gomes
From Freedom To Freedom

Journey into the creative process of Brooklyn indie rock band the National with this unique documentary. Filmmaker Vincent Moon's cameras follow the band as they make their fourth album, "Boxer," and work to diversify their sound. More than just a technical examination of the recording process, the film uncovers the mental and emotional challenges, collaborative highs and lows, and quest for fresh ideas that drive this -- or indeed any -- band.
A Skin, A Night

US rock trio R.E.M. prepare for a five-night series of concerts in 2007 at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland.
R.E.M.: This Is Not a Show - Live at the Olympia in Dublin

Bon Iver playing "For Emma, Forever Ago" in Montmartre, Paris, France - 2008
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago | A Take Away Show

A look into the music of Slaraffenland.
Temporary Slaraffenland
It was a magical night.