Cédric Blaisbois () is a French

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known for his organic and visceral dark visual style. Blaisbois has primarily directed short films, music videos for

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...

acts such as Huoratron and Mr Flash. He has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians.

Early work

After graduating in Fine Arts from the ENSAD, Blaisbois work as a graphic designer blending modern elements with classic design to produce artwork for record labels and

French house French house (also referred to as French touch, filter house, or tekfunk) is a style of house music devised by French musicians in the 1990s. It is a form of Eurodisco and a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music s ...

artists such as

Kavinsky Vincent Belorgey (born 31 July 1975), known professionally as Kavinsky, is a French musician, producer, DJ, and actor. His production style is reminiscent of the electropop film soundtracks of the 1980s. Kavinsky claims that his music is inspire ...

. Blaisbois then began directing, retooling his design experience to shoot commercials and music videos inspired by art house directors such as

John Carpenter John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror film, horror, action film, action, and science fiction film, science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is ...

David Cronenberg David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and ...

and

William Friedkin William David Friedkin (; August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in doc ...

. Blaisbois signed with

Partizan Midi-Minuit Partizan Midi-Minuit is a French company, which produced videos and films such as the multi-award-winning '' Cog'' television advertisement for the Honda Accord; the 2004 ads for 7-Up, featuring Fido Dido; the music video for U2's "Vertigo ...

production company in 2010.

Music videos

Blaisbois has had ties to

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 ...

. since his first production "Flesh" for Mr Flash. Video for Huoratron's "Corporate Occult" is perhaps his best known. In 2016, ''

Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertis ...

'' ranked "Corporate Occult" number 1 as "the scariest, goriest, freakiest, most intense music video ever."

Commercials

Blaisbois has directed a handful of commercials for companies including

Nissan is a Japanese multinational Automotive industry, automobile manufacturer headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The company sells its vehicles under the ''Nissan'' and ''Infiniti'' brands, and formerly the ''Datsun'' brand, with in-house ...

Lacoste Lacoste S.A. (; ) is a French designer sports fashion company, founded in 1933 by tennis player René Lacoste, and entrepreneur André Gillier. It sells clothing, footwear, sportswear, eyewear, leather goods, perfume, towels and watches. The ...

and

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. Converse "Shoes are Boring" is the most atypical one, made specifically for Mother's Day in a comedic genre for the only time in his career.

Short films

In 2019,

Vice Media Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company. Vice Media encompasses four main business areas: Vice Studios Group (film and TV production); Vice TV (a joint venture with A&E Networks, also known as Vicelan ...

showed how Blaisbois narrated the nightlife of young Venezuelans in

Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro Moros (; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and former union leader serving as the 53rd president of Venezuela since 2013. Previously, he was the 24th Vice President of Venezuela, vice president from 2012 to 20 ...

's country, for his very first short film "Autocannibalism", depicting one night of partying in the most violent city in the world:

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

, Venezuela.

Personal life

In 2008, Blaisbois married model Solweig Rediger-Lizlow in

Las Vegas Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...

. They divorced in 2014.

Videography

* "Corporate Occult" (2011) video for Huoratron * "Flesh" (2011) video for Mr Flash * "Together We Play" (2013) video for Raveyards * "Shoes are boring" (2013) – commercial for Converse * "Autocannibalism" (2019) – Short Film * "Balcón" (2020) – video for Famasloop

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blaisbois, Cedric French advertising directors French music video directors Living people Film people from Paris Year of birth missing (living people) École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs alumni