Vincent Moon (fr)

Vincent Moon is an independent filmmaker and sound explorer from Paris. Since 2009 he has been traveling the world making ethnographic-experimental films, recording traditional and sacred music, filming religious and shamanic rituals under the label Petites Planètes. His work now explores transcendent states using images and sounds, as well as the ritualistic aspects of societies and communities.

Moon rose to prominence in the mid 2000s as the main director of La Blogothèque's Take Away Shows. The web-based project of recording musicians and bands performing their work in unexpected locations led Moon to be dubbed 'the re-inventor of the music video' by the New York Times.

Throughout his career, he has been strongly connected to musicians from all backgrounds and walks of life. He has documented everything from stadium rock music to a capella village songs, from experimentations in electronics to trance rituals. He makes all his work - films and sound recordings - accessible to everybody on the internet, under open source licenses.

Co- Curated with Nuits Sonores & European Lab as part of We Are Europe.