Take Away Shows
In 2006, inspired by the film Step Across the Border on the English guitarist Fred Frith, he created with Christophe 'Chryde' Abric Take-Away Shows / Les Concerts à Emporter, La Blogothèque's popular video podcast (takeawayshows.com). The Take Away Shows is a series of improvised outdoor video sessions with musicians, set in unexpected locations and broadcast freely on the web. In four years, they managed to shoot over two hundred videos with bands like R.E.M., Arcade Fire, Tom Jones, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, Sigur Rós, and Caribou. Vincent Moon perfected his style: an immediately recognizable intimacy, always with fragile and dancing long shots, often shot in one take without rehearsal. The Take Away Shows quickly gathered a large online following, The New York Times presented its impact as 'Vincent Moon reinvented the music video'. An entire new generation of young filmmakers around the world recognized the influence of the whole concept, this organic approach to music. A study from 2010 showed that more than 100 online film projects were directly inspired by La Blogothèque]'s Take Away Shows.
The large amount of clips is the result of a very fast filming process with mostly one take recordings in a way comparable to the Dogma 95 concept. Comparable with the field recordings of Alan Lomax or the Peel Sessions of John Peel, Moon has set up a large collection of unique single take recordings enhanced with artistic filmed video footage. The fast filming process he uses is a form of guerrilla film making. The sessions are usually two or three tracks filmed improvised in an unusual environment and as such they often had a rough and ready, demo-like feel, somewhere between a live performance and a finished music video. These live, unusually staged performances differ from the artifice of traditional music videos in favor of single-take, organic and primarily acoustic sessions.
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