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Vincent Moon: How can we use computers,

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cameras, microphones to represent the world

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in an alternative way, as much as possible?

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How, maybe, is it possible to use the Internet

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to create a new form of cinema?

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And actually, why do we record?

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Well, I research these simple questions in mind,

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then I started to make films 10 years ago,

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first with a friend, Christophe Abric.

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He had a website, La Blogotheque,

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dedicated to independent music.

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We were crazy about music.

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We wanted to represent music in a different way,

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to film the music we love, the musicians we admired

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as much as possible

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far from the music industry

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and far from the cliches attached to it.

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We started to publish every week

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sessions on the Internet.

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We are going to see a few extracts now.

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From Grizzly Bear in the shower

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to Sigur Ros in a Parisian cafe,

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from [???] playing by the Eiffel Tower

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to Tom Jones in his hotel room in New York,

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from the Arcade Fire in an elevator

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in the Olympiades

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to Beirut going down stairs in Brooklyn,

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from [??] in a car

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to the National around a table at night

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in the south of France,

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from Bon Iver playing with some friends

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in an apartment in Montmarte

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to Yeasayer having a long night,

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and many, many, many more

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unknown or very famous bands.

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We published all those things for free on the Internet,

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and we wanted to share

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all those films and represent music in a different way.

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We wanted to create another type of intimacy

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using all those new technologies.

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At the time, 10 years ago actually,

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there was no such project on the Internet,

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and I guess that's why the project

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we were making, the Take Away Shows,

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got quite successful,

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reaching millions of viewers.

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After a while, I got a bit "Mmmm,"

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I wanted to do something else.

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I felt the need to travel and
to discover some other music,

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to explore the world,

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going to other corners

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and actually it was also this idea of nomadic cinema,

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sort of, that I had in mind.

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How could the use of new technologies

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and the world could fit together?

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How could I have my films in a bus

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crossing the Andes?

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So I went on a five-year travels around the globe.

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I started at the time in the [???] filming

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my music le bon Collection Petites Planètes,

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which was also an homage to
French filmmaker Chris Marker.

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We're going to see now a few more extracts

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of those new films.

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From the Tecnobrega diva of
northern Brazil, Gaby Amarantos

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to a female ensemble in Chechnya,

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from experimental electronic music in Singapore

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with One Man Nation

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to Brazilian [???] Tom Zé singing
on his rooftop in Sao Paolo,

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from the Bambir, the great rock band from Armenia

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to some traditional songs

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in the restaurant in Tbilisi, Georgia,

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from the White Shoes,

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a great [??] band from Jakarta, Indonesia

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to Dakha Brakha, the revolutionary band

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from Kiev, Ukraine,

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from Tomi Lebrero

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and his band and his friends
in Buenos Aires, Argentina,

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to many other places

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and musicians around the world.

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My desire was to make it as a truck.

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To do all those things,

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it would have been impossible

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with a big company behind me,

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with a structure or anything.

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I was traveling alone with a backpack:

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computer camera, microphones in it.

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Alone, I shoot with just local people,

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meeting my team, which was absolutely not

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professional people, on the spot there,

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going from one place to another

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and to make cinema as a truck.

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I really believed that cinema could be

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this very simple thing.

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I want to make a film and you're going to give me

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a place to stay for the night.

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I give you a moment of cinema

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and you will [???].

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Well, or other drinks, depending on where you are.

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In Peru, the drink pisco sour.

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Oh, well, when I arrived in Peru, actually,

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I had no idea

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about what I would do there,

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and I just had one phone number, actually,

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of one person.

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Three months later,

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after traveling all around the country, I hard recorded

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33 films, only with the help of local people,

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only with the help of people

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that I was asking all the time the same question:

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what is important to record

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here today?

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By living in such a way,

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by working without any structure,

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I was able to react to the moment

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and to decide, oh, this is important to make now.

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This is important to record that whole person.

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This is important to create this exchange.

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When I went to Chechnya,

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the first person I met looked at me and was like,

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"What are you doing here?

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Are you a journalist? NGO? Politics?

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What kind of problems are you going to study?"

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Well, I was there to research

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on Sufi rituals in Chechnya, actually,

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incredible culture of Sufism in Chechnya,

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which is absolutely unknown outside of the region.

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As soon as people understood

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that I would give them those films,

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I would publish them online for free
under a creative commons license,

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but I would also really give them to the people

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and I would let them do what they want with it.

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I just want to represent them under a beautiful light.

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I just want to portray them in a way that

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their grandchildren are going
to look at their grandfather,

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and they're going to be like,

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"Whoa, my grandfather is as cool as Beyoncé."

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It's a really important thing.

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(Applause)

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It's really important,

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because that's the way

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people are going to look at their own culture,

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at their own land.

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They're going to think about it differently.

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It may be a way to maintain a certain diversity.

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Why you will record?

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Hmm. There's really good quotes

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by American thinker Hakim Bey

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which says, "Every recording

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is a tombstone of a live performance."

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It's a really good sentence to keep in mind

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nowadays in an era saturated by images.

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What's the point of that? Where do we go with it?

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I was researching. I was still keeping this idea

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in mind: what's the point?

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I was researching on music, trying to pull,

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trying to get closer to a certain origin of it.

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Where is this all coming from?

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I am French. I had no idea about

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what I would discover, which is a very simple thing:

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everything was sacred, at first,

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and music was spiritual healing.

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How could I use my camera,

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my little tool, to get closer

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and maybe not only capture the trends

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but find an equivalent, the [???], maybe,

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something in complete harmony

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with the people?

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That was, that is now,

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my new researches I'm making

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on spirituality, on new spirits around the world.

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Maybe a few more extracts now.