Quentin Dupieux (, born 14 April 1974), also known by his musical stage name Mr. Oizo (), is a French filmmaker, electronic musician, and DJ. Dupieux is credited with his legal name for his films, while the name "Mr. Oizo" is used for his musical works. Dupieux has directed numerous films including ''

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'' (2010), ''

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'' (2012), ''

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'' (2013), and ''

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'' (2014). After initially producing his films in the United States, he began making films in France in 2018. Since then, he has released '' Keep an Eye Out!'' (2018), ''

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'' (2019), and ''

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'' (2020) which have been entirely filmed and produced in France. Under the pseudonym Mr. Oizo, he is best known for his 1999 single "

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". His pseudonym is a corruption of the French , meaning "bird". He is signed to

F Communications F Communications, also known as FCom, was a French record label based in Paris. It was founded in 1994 by Eric Morand and Laurent Garnier. It produces dance and electronic music by artists like Avril, Garnier, and Mr. Oizo amongst many others. ...

Ed Banger Records Ed Banger Records (sometimes referred to as Ed Rec) is a French electronic music record label founded by Pedro Winter in 2003 as a division of Headbangers Entertainment. It focuses on house music, particularly French house, as well as alternati ...

and

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Early life

Quentin Dupieux was born on 14 April 1974 in

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. At the age of 18, he found a camera and started taking photographs. At 19, he began to play music to illustrate his images, and he bought his first synthesizer. In 1997,

Laurent Garnier Laurent Garnier (born 1 February 1966), also known as Choice, is a French electronic music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJing in Manchester during the late 1980s. He became a producer in the early 1990s and recorded several albums. Early influ ...

of the record label FCom bought a car from Dupieux's father. Garnier then found out about his talents and let him direct the music video for his song "Flashback". Dupieux was subsequently signed to FCom, which released his first EP, ''#1''.

Musical career

"Flat Beat"

Dupieux released "

" in January 1999, a track consisting mainly of a repeated bass loop and a drum sample from "Put Your Love in My Tender Care" by The Fatback Band. In an interview with ''XLR8R'' magazine, Dupieux stated that it took him only two hours with a

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to produce. Flat Beat became a hit throughout Europe in 1999, becoming the best-known Mr. Oizo release. The track was featured in a series of

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jeans TV commercials, which featured a yellow puppet named

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nodding his head to the rhythm while riding in an old, beat-up Chevelle. Flat Eric was also featured in the song's music video. The ''Flat Beat EP'' has sold over three million copies. The song reached number 1 in the UK.

''Analog Worms Attack''

After "Flat Beat", Oizo spent two months creating his first full album, ''Analog Worms Attack'', which was released in 1999. The album's name was derived from the fact that it was produced entirely using analog equipment. The record scratching effects were provided by Mr. Oizo's friend

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. "Flat Beat" appeared as a bonus track after the five minutes of silence following the final track "Analog Wormz Sequel". A total of three singles were released in support of the album. A version of "Monday Massacre" from the ''Flat Beat EP'' featuring sampled record scratching appears on the album, titled "No Day Massacre".

''Moustache (Half a Scissor)''

'' Moustache (Half a Scissor)'' was Mr. Oizo's second studio album. Released in 2005, the album was composed exclusively using computers as he had by that time decided to eschew the use of analog equipment. The extensive time it took to remodel his studio and master the use of computers in composing electronic music is cited as the reason for the long hiatus between ''Analog Worms Attack'' and ''Moustache (Half a Scissor)''. Before its public release, a promo CD was released onto the internet featuring three tracks not on the original release: "CPU", "Nazis", and "A Nun". Some songs on the promo differ from the released album versions. For example, "Nurse Bob" is much longer on the final release whilst the promo version splices vocal samples into a much shorter version. This is the only Mr. Oizo album not to have its debut release on vinyl; a vinyl version would first be released in January 2011 through

Ed Banger Records

Mr. Oizo's first EP released on

is called "Transexual / Patrick122". The EP features the track "Patrick122", which is a re-working of the 1979

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track "Do It at the Disco" by

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. The track appeared on Mr. Oizo's MySpace page in 2006 under the title ''Patrick122''. On 16 October 2008 his MySpace page had another video appear: a promo for his upcoming album, ''Lambs Anger''. The first single off the Record was "Positif", which was released 3 days after ''Lambs Anger''. On 15 March 2009 the second single off the album was released, "Pourriture", released as an EP featuring some reworked titles by Oizo himself and a remix of "Erreurjean" by Arveene and Misk.

''Lambs Anger''

Lambs Anger ''Lambs Anger'' is the third studio album by Mr. Oizo. It was released by Ed Banger Records in France on November 17, 2008. It includes "Steroids", which features guest vocalist Uffie. The album cover references the scene from ''Un Chien Andalou'' ...

'' is Mr. Oizo's first studio album released by

, the label he chose after his split with

, who notoriously referred to ''Moustache (Half a Scissor)'' as "unlistenable". "Positif", "Two Takes It" (featuring Carmen Castro) and "Pourriture" were chosen as the album's singles. The track "Steroids" also features label-mate

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. "Two Takes It" is a cover of the song " It Takes Two" by

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and "Gay Dentists" contains samples of "Let's Start the Dance" by

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Collaborations with Uffie

Mr. Oizo and

first collaborated on her second single, " Ready to Uff", in 2006. Since then he has produced the following tracks for Uffie: "Dismissed", " Hot Chick", "

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" (which charted at number 18 in

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), "Steroids" and "

MCs Can Kiss "MCs Can Kiss" is a single from Uffie's debut album '' Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans''. The single was written by Uffie and Feadz and was produced by Mr. Oizo. It was released digitally on January 12, 2010Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans ''Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans'' is the debut studio album by French-American singer Uffie. It was released on June 14, 2010, by Ed Banger Records and Because Music. Produced by Feadz, J-Mat, Mr. Oizo, Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Mirwais and Sebastian (Frenc ...

''. He worked alongside

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, Mirwais, J-Mat and

to produce and write the album. He produced the first single from the album, "

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and 97 in

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. He also produced the tracks "Art of Uff", "

", "Our Song" and "Neuneu".

''The Church'' and ''All Wet''

In 2014, Mr. Oizo released the album '' The Church'', which contains 10 tracks, including a collaboration with Bart B More on the track "Dry Run". Unlike his previous album, ''The Church'' was released by

due to his activity in the United States at the time. Two years later, he released the album ''

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'' on Ed Banger Records. The album contains collaborations with

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Mocky Mocky (born October 7, 1974) is a Canadian singer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer. Biography Mocky was born Dominic Salole in Saskatchewan, Canada. He later moved to Ottawa and Toronto, and then to London, Amst ...

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and

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on the track "End of the World", the latter serving as the lead single for the album.

Production and equipment

In his early years, Mr. Oizo used a

, a

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, an

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, and a demo of

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. Mr. Oizo is known currently for strong use of computers in his music. As he stated in an interview with ''XLR8R'', he started using computers to avoid having to plug in four different appliances, and because the resulting music is more or less the same. His first album to switch to all computers was ''Moustache (Half a Scissor)''. For ''Lambs Anger'', Mr. Oizo used a Macintosh G5 running Logic Pro to compose all of the songs. During his DJ sets, he uses two CDJs.

Filmmaking career

Dupieux created a number of music videos and feature films, starting with the 1997 music video "Kirk". He not only directs his productions, he is usually also writer, editor, composer and cinematographer. Dupieux's films are highly

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in nature, and he has been compared to filmmakers such as Charlie Kaufmann and

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. The frequent use of

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in his movies have also invited comparisons to director

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, although Dupieux himself dislikes this comparison. His movies often consist of

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narratives: In the film

, a group of "audience members" on-screen watch the events of the film take place; the film

is a film about a filmmaker attempting to create a suitable groan of pain for his new movie; in the climax of

Keep an Eye Out ''Keep an Eye Out!'' (french: Au poste !) is a 2018 French surreal black comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars Benoît Poelvoorde and Grégoire Ludig, alongside Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier, Philippe Duquesne and Orels ...

, it is revealed the actors are part of a theater trope that have been performing the events of the film on stage for an audience. His first film, ''Nonfilm'', starring Vincent Belorgey (Kavinsky) and

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, released in 2001. Dupieux's second feature film ''Steak'' was released in France on 20 June 2007. The cast is composed of

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Ramzy Bedia Ramzy Habib El Haq Bedia ( ar, رمزي حبيب إل حق بيديا ; born March 10, 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director of Algerian descent. He started his career as a comedian in 1994 after meeting Eric Judor with whom ...

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, Vincent Belorgey and Sebastian Akchoté (SebastiAn), with an original

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composed by Dupieux himself in collaboration with Sébastien Tellier and SebastiAn. The film ended up being a

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and the only film by Dupieux that did not receive an international release. According to Dupieux, the film was marketed as a "popular comedy" by

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, leading to the audience expecting to see a comedy more similar to previous films by Éric and Ramzy, hence the reason for this flop in the theaters. Dupieux also directed the opening credit sequence for the adult animated series '' Moot-Moot'', created by Éric and Ramzy, broadcast on

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the same year. Filming for the absurdist

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'' began in 2009. The electronic music duo

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stated that they would be working on the soundtrack for ''Rubber'', saying they had to 'finish working on the soundtrack for Mr. Oizo's new film before we start recording for the new album'. However, only Gaspard Augé of the duo ended up collaborating with Dupieux on the soundtrack. In the United States, the film was released simultaneously through streaming and limited theatrical engagements. The surreal comedy ''

'' premiered at the

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in 2012. The comedy ''

'' was produced by Realitism Films, who describe it as "a filthy 90 minute comedy about some disturbed cops. It is not a sequel to ''Wrong''." The first thirteen-minute chapter of the film premiered at the

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. Dupieux returned in 2014 with the surreal comedy ''

'', starring

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, distributed in the US by

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. The film premiered in the Horizons section at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on 28 August 2014. In 2018, his first film shot in France, '' Keep an Eye Out!'' (original title: ''Au poste!''), starring

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and Grégoire Ludig, released in theaters. The film's story involves a ''

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'' (Poelvoorde) and a suspect (Ludig) in an interrogation room. For this film, Dupieux was indirectly inspired by the film ''

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'', starring

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, and some press reviews have compared the film to ''

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'' by

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. In 2019, Dupieux returned with ''

'' (original title: ''Le daim''), starring

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and

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. The film was presented as opening film at the

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at the

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. His film ''

'' (original title: ''Mandibules''), starring

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and Grégoire Ludig, the two members of the duo Palmashow, released on 19 May 2021 in French theaters. It was screened out of competition at the

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on 5 September 2020. Following the critical success of the film at the Venice International Film Festival,

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acquired distribution rights for the United States. In 2022, he released two films. The first, '' Incredible but True'' (original title: ''Incroyable mais vrai''), was released in June 2022 in French theaters and starred Alain Chabat and

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, who respectively played in his previous films ''Reality'' and ''Au poste!''. The second, ''

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'' (original title: ''Fumer fait tousser''), was released in November 2022 in French theaters and also featured Chabat and Demoustier as actors.

Personal life

He currently lives with his partner Joan Le Boru, who is the chief decorator and artistic director of his films. They have several children together.

Discography

Studio albums * ''

Analog Worms Attack ''Analog Worms Attack'' is the debut studio album by French musician Mr. Oizo, released on 11 October 1999 through F Communications. The album is mostly instrumental and minimal, taking cues from French house and early American Hip hop music, h ...

'' (1999) * '' Moustache (Half a Scissor)'' (2005) * ''

'' (2008) * ''

Stade 2 ''Stade 2'' is the fourth studio album by Mr. Oizo. The album was released on iTunes only on 11 November 2011 on Ed Banger Records, and was released both as CD and in other music stores on 27 December. The Vinyl format was released in 2012. Thi ...

'' (2011) * '' The Church'' (2014) * ''

'' (2016) * ''Voilà'' (with

) (2022)

Filmography

Films

Music videos

* "Kirk" (1997) * "Flashback" -

(1997) * "M-Seq" (1999) * "Flat Beat" (1999) * "Analog Worms Attack" (1999) * "Inside the Kidney Machine" (1999) * "Stunt" (2004) * "

La Ritournelle "La Ritournelle" is a song by Sébastien Tellier from his 2004 album ''Politics''. It was released as a single on 26 September 2005; along with the original, this included remixes by Mr. Dan, Jim Noir and Jake Bullit. The track received much cr ...

" -

(2004) * "Making Lambs Anger" (2009) * "Where's the Money, George?" (2010) * "Being Flat" (2015) (Short film) * "Night Owl" -

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(2016) * "Discow" - Handbraekes (2018) * "Viandes Légumes Véhicules" - (2019, directed by Meat Dept.)

Awards and nominations

Dupieux was promoted to "

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Lambs Anger Album Review

Video footage of Making Lambs Anger by Mr Oizo

Review of Mr. Oizo's ''Pourriture'' EP on the Daily Music Guide
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