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Michel Gondry: Taxi Driver Sweded

Date
4 January 2012

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Among Michel Gondry’s many contributions to pop culture, the term “sweded” may be one of the most enduring. It comes from his 2008 movie Be Kind Rewind and refers to the practice of remaking classic films at breakneck speed on a low-tech video camera. Clearly not content with unleashing an internet phenomenon (with LOTS of Star Wars efforts) Michel clearly can’t keep away from his own creation, and recently posted this redux version of Taxi Driver online, with some classy Gondry touches raising this effort above the multitude.

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Rob Alderson

Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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