Gwenaëlle Gobé

Gwenaëlle Gobé (born 1977) is an American documentary film director, illustrator, and photographer.

Biography

Gobé was born in 1977 in San Francisco, California to French parents. She graduated from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York where she obtained her Bachelors in Fine Arts. In 2006 she completed her Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts.

She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Films

This Space Available

In 2011 Gobé directed the film This Space Available. The film was inspired, in part, by São Paulo’s 2006 Cidade Limpa, or "Clean City Law," which forbade all forms of outdoor advertising. Another inspiration was her father, Marc Gobé, the branding guru and author of “Emotional Branding,” who served as the film’s executive producer. Her inspiration was gleaned from her father’s writings, which she described to Women's Wear Daily as “bringing energy and urgency to stories of people around the world fighting to reclaim their public spaces from visual pollution.”

The film investigates the phenomenon that billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space. The film considers the blurry line dividing art and ads, questions the economic viability of billboards, and asks: at what point does advertising become visual pollution?

The film premiered at IFC Films in New York City November 5, 2011 and was included in the DOC Film Institute New York City lineup the same year. The film has since gone on to screen worldwide and Gobé has presented the film at numerous festivals and universities such as Columbia University, The New School, Columbus College of Art and Design, University of Pennsylvania, United Nations Film Festival, and at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

King of the Line

King Of The Line is a short, six-minute documentary directed by Gobé which follows five of the pioneers of New York subway graffiti as they describe the struggle to inhabit public space with their art and signature. Interviews with graffiti historian Henry Chalfant as well as graffiti legends Lee Quiñones, Chris "Daze" Ellis, Quik, and Sharp paint an accurate portrait of what graffiti meant to the youths in the 1980s as a means of communication and self-expression. The film looks at how modern day corporations have now tried to co-opt that same public space with their commercial messaging.

The film won "Best Documentary" at the BeFilm Underground Film Festival in New York City in April, 2013.

Illustration and Animation

Gwenaëlle Gobé’s work has been published and shown internationally, notably in Swindle Magazine and the New York-based Swingset Magazine, Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects Gallery, The Institute of International Visual Arts in London, the Substation Gallery in Singapore, and on Obey The Giant Clothing. Her 35mm cut-out animation, The Old Noise, screened at Film Forum’s First Sight Scene Festival and at The Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles.

In 2013, she published the first episode in a series of comics called The Diary of Stephanie. The comic follows the adventures of Stephanie, a Janus, as she tries to find the ideal society where she belongs in the world.

Photography

Gwenaëlle is an accomplished portrait and documentary photographer.

External links

• Artist's site
• Gwenaëlle Gobé on IMDb
• An interview with Gwenaëlle Gobé by Brian Lehrer
• An interview with Gwenaëlle Gobé by Ondi Timoner for Bring Your Own Documentary
• The Diary of Stephanie
• This Space Available
• An interview with Gwenaëlle Gobé in The Atlantic

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