---
title: "Artist Dossier: Vincent Moon"
type: dossier
artist: "Vincent Moon"
case: A
context: people-2026
roster: confirmed 2026-09-15
created: 2026-08-18
updated: 2026-09-15
skill_version: 4.2
---
# Artist Dossier: Vincent Moon (né Mathieu Saura) — Collection Petites Planètes
**Links:** [vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) · [petitesplanetes.earth](https://petitesplanetes.earth/) · [petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com](https://petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com/) · [Instagram @petites___planetes](https://www.instagram.com/petites___planetes/) · [Songlines — "Nomad Cinema"](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) · [Murailles Music (booking)](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) · [PEOPLE 2026 participants](https://peoplefestival.berlin/participants)
The photo on his own About page, vincentmoon.com/about.
**Bio**
- Independent filmmaker and sound explorer; "Vincent Moon" is the public name of Mathieu Saura, born August 25, 1979 ([vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/)). Collection Petites Planètes is the production company he co-runs with Priscilla Telmon ([petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography)).
- Nomadic, Paris-born — "our location is constantly changing" ([petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision)); mid-tour Ireland/UK at the time of the original dossier, Aug 2026 ([his agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/), [The Wire listing](https://www.thewire.co.uk/events/vincent-moon-live-cinema-2026)).
- Press: NYT "the re-inventor of the music video" (2011 — cited on [his own bio](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography) and [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon); original article not fetched) · Songlines feature ["Nomad Cinema"](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) (Aug 2024) · booking via [Murailles Music](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/).
- Platforms: [petitesplanetes.earth](https://petitesplanetes.earth/) · [vincentmoon.com](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/petites___planetes/) · [Bandcamp](https://petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com/) · YouTube /vincentmoon (channel URL not recorded; his *PEOPLE ★* film is [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015EFoHmiGo)).
- PEOPLE 2026: confirmed (seed + his own agenda: "OCTOBER 2026 · 10-11 · PEOPLE, Berlin" — [vincentmoon.com/agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/); listed on [peoplefestival.berlin/participants](https://peoplefestival.berlin/participants)) — alumnus of 2016 (Michelberger Music) and 2018.
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## Practice Summary
- Moon co-created PEOPLE itself — he is in the festival's own founding-circle list next to the Dessners, Justin Vernon, and the Michelbergers ([peoplefestival.berlin/about](https://peoplefestival.berlin/about)), and the film at the top of the festival's Past Editions page is his: *PEOPLE ★ a music film by vincent moon* ([peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions](https://peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions)).
- His practice since leaving indie-rock stardom-adjacency: 20 years nomadic, one bag of gear, filming sacred music and trance ceremonies on every continent ([vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/), [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)).
- Publishing all of it — 1,300–1,600 films — free under Creative Commons ([about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/): 1,300+; [Murailles bio](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/): 1,600+).
- Then re-igniting the archive nightly as "Live Cinéma": film edited live, in public, like a ceremony ([about page, TECHNOLOGY](https://vincentmoon.com/about/); [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/)).
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## Threads they care about
### 1. He is a founder coming home
The festival's own About page lists him in the small circle who ignited Michelberger Music 2016 / PEOPLE ([peoplefestival.berlin/about](https://peoplefestival.berlin/about)), and the festival's visual memory is substantially his footage — *PEOPLE ★* leads their [Past Editions page](https://peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions).
2026 is a co-creator returning to the room he helped invent.
Bonus filament: his saturated photo is the cover of The National's *Alligator* ([fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) + [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)) — his friendship with the Dessners predates everything.
*No image: the natural picture is a frame of his* PEOPLE ★ *film, which exists online only as a YouTube thumbnail on the Michelberger Hotel channel and as festival-page "impressions" — neither a self-presented surface.*
### 2. The marathon Live Cinémas
2026 is the year his Live Cinéma went durational: **12 hours** in a Mexico City chapel (Capilla Sadi Carnot, Feb 8 — [his agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/)) and **6 hours** at Banlieues Bleues (Mar 29).
"You can come and go freely, in search of flashes of brilliance… a magic lantern or a crystal-ball camera" ([Murailles news](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/); [banlieuesbleues.org listing](https://www.banlieuesbleues.org/festival/evenement/5397/2026-03-29-1200-festival-vincent-moons-live-cinema/)). Cinema run like a fair or a vigil, not a screening.
Flyer for the 6-hour Banlieues Bleues Live Cinéma, from his booking agency's news post, muraillesmusic.com.
### 3. One bag
His entire filmmaking kit — Panasonic P2 camera, Audio-Technica camera mic, three Zoom recorders, Rode wireless, lavaliers — is enumerated on [his own about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) and "it all fits in a bag" ([Songlines quote](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)).
He works alone, films every two days on the road, and always gives a copy of the film back to the community. Degrowth as a visual fact.
*No image: the kit is enumerated as text; no self-presented photo of the bag or gear was found on his site, Bandcamp, or agency page.*
### 4. He now runs his own PEOPLE-shaped ritual
La Symphonie de Ségriès ([symphonie.cc](https://symphonie.cc/)): 20 musicians from around the world, ~10 days in a Provence monastery, no hierarchy, ending in one public concert day, recordings released Creative Commons.
The PEOPLE model transplanted into a monastery — and he arrives at Funkhaus **directly from it** (Ségriès Sept 20–28 → PEOPLE Oct 10–11, [his agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/)).
2026 edition poster (Petites Planètes is a co-producer), symphonie.cc.
*Delight-grade oddments:* he refuses video calls — "I'm blocked by the images, and I can't speak anymore" ([Songlines quote](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)); the [vision page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision) says the duo improvise projects "following our intuitions and birds singings"; [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) crowns him with Rimbaud's nickname, *l'homme aux semelles de vent* — the man with soles of wind.
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## Medium & Materials
- Ethnographic-experimental film; handheld, sequence-shot, one take, no rehearsal ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) + [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) — confirmed)
- Field recording / sound exploration: 250+ Bandcamp albums of travel recordings ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) †; [Bandcamp](https://petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com/) itself returned a shell page)
- **Live Cinéma**: real-time film editing (VDMX) + live music (Ableton Live), performance adapted to each venue, sometimes with local musicians (self-stated [tech list](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) + [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) — confirmed)
- Gear (self-stated, [about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/)): Panasonic P2 AG-HPX250 · Audio-Technica BP4025 camera mic · Zoom H2n, H6e, F2 · Rode Wireless Go III · Tram & Sanken lavaliers · DaVinci Resolve
- Immersive installations & photography, with Priscilla Telmon (self-stated, [biography](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography)/[vision](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision) pages)
- Everything published open-source, CC BY-NC-SA (self-stated [about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) + [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) + [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) — confirmed)
- *Híbridos, the Spirits of Brazil* — 5 years filming Brazilian spirit rituals, shown "from MoMA in New York to the Barbican in London" (self-stated, [biography page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography); third-party-verifiable career claim not independently verified here — †)
---
## Aesthetic Vocabulary
- "an optical ritual… an endless research into contemporary trance" ([Murailles bio](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/))
- "a magic lantern or a crystal-ball camera, fragments from all over the world, spiritual wanderings, and bubbling ceremonies" ([Murailles news, 2026](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/))
- "a fountain of intensities, paroxysms, trances released in a single shot in the leaping colors of the projection (think cannon, think catapult)" ([Murailles news](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/))
- "There's much more movement than words in my films… I'm just there watching the moment" ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema))
- the sequence shot as "an act of illusion, hypnosis, visual trance" ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema))
- "absolute subjectivity, a slightly gonzo film collection… doesn't give a damn about any hierarchy" ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema))
- "local music," never "world music" ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema))
- "art as care" ([biography page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography))
- "faith in the impromptu, the accident, the chaos" ([vision page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision))
- "we are only bridges" ([vision page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision))
- Sound materials (not paintable — stays here): zar ceremonies in Cairo, Afro-Brazilian ritual percussion, a-capella village songs, Japanese harsh noise, stadium rock, drone-ish "repetitive sound friction" opening films in blackness ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema))
- *Inferred:* his light is projection-light and found daylight — the films begin in black and let a window teach the room its shape; nothing in the sources supports cozy amber.
---
## Visual Inventory
### Objects & Surfaces
- Worn travel bag holding the entire kit; a backpack ("camera on his back") [confirmed — [about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/), [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema), [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/), [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon)]
- Small broadcast camera (Panasonic P2) [self-stated — [about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/)]
- Field recorders (Zoom H2n / H6e / F2), wireless mic, lavaliers, coiled cables [self-stated + [Songlines quote](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)]
- Live-edit desk: laptop with fader/controller (VDMX + Ableton) [self-stated + [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/)]
- Projection wall running with saturated moving color [confirmed — [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/) "leaping colors of the projection"]
- Hard-drive / archive mass of 1,300–1,600 open-source films; stacks of field-recording albums [confirmed, count contested: 1,300+ [self-stated](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) vs 1,600+ [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/)]
- Travel notebooks — "I read a lot of things, listen to a lot of music and take notes" [confirmed quote — [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)]
- Chapel pew / church furniture (Capilla Sadi Carnot 12h; Abbeystrewry Church, Skibbereen) [confirmed — [agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/)]
- Super 8 camera, early phone-camera experiments [† — [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon)]
- Star glyph ★ as used in his film title *PEOPLE ★* [confirmed — [official film title](https://peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions); the giant PEOPLE artwork itself is Eric Timothy Carlson's, 2016]
### Materials & Textures
- Darkness broken only by projector beam; dust in the beam [confirmed lighting condition of Live Cinéma; dust †def]
- Heavily saturated color (the *Alligator* cover photo; "leaping colors") [confirmed]
- Monastery stone and Provence daylight (Ségriès) [confirmed — [symphonie.cc](https://symphonie.cc/) photography, [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) photo caption]
- Canvas/nylon of a much-traveled bag [†def — furnish only]
### Spatial Signatures
- A dark room where the only light is the projection, and the audience may come and go for hours [confirmed — 6h/12h Expanded Live Cinéma listings, [agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/)]
- A bright window over a half-heard busy street, room in shadow, image assembling slowly out of black [confirmed — [Songlines'](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) description of *MESTRE! MESTRE!*'s opening]
- Funkhaus as a corridor of 40 studios with doors opening onto music [confirmed — [peoplefestival.berlin/about](https://peoplefestival.berlin/about)]
- Venue-adapted staging: chapels, monasteries, boats (Cinema Galleggiante, Venice), lakesides [confirmed — [agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/)]
---
## Studio Design Brief
**Visual anchor**
The projection wall mid-ritual — one wall of the room alive with saturated moving imagery, the beam crossing darkness (sourced: [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/), Expanded Live Cinéma).
**Mood**
Optical ritual; vigil-like patience; hypnosis rather than spectacle; generous — the door never locks.
**Density**
Sparse. "95% of the time today, cinema is made with far too many resources" ([Songlines quote](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)) — his degrowth ethic *is* the spatial argument. One bag, one desk, one wall of light.
**Surprise element**
The single open bag that contains an entire world cinema — camera, recorders, mics, twenty years, every continent (thread 3 they care about, made spatial).
**Negative space**
The darkness itself — everything outside the beam falls away; upper air of the room stays black like the first seconds of his films.
---
## Sketch Brief
The content half of a draft-status sketch prompt; the style half lives with the art
director and is joined at assembly. Inventory-bound and thread-tied; no texture,
palette, or lighting guesses. All of it is a recommendation — the artist and the art
director change anything.
**In the sketch** — ranked, up to four, each naming its thread
1. One wall of a dark room running with projected moving film — thread 2 (the marathon Live Cinémas).
2. A single worn travel bag lying open on bare floorboards, a small camera and three field recorders spilling out — thread 3 (one bag).
3. A wooden chapel pew facing the projection, angled as if dragged there — thread 2 (the chapel stagings, Capilla Sadi Carnot).
4. A stone sill at one window with plain daylight on it — thread 4 (the Ségriès monastery).
**Left open for the artist** — what the sketch deliberately leaves blank
- The walls · what the projection shows · the second half of the room · whether the window is monastery or Funkhaus · what is on the shelves · where the door is.
**Self-stated visual importances** — only what they have said matters, with the link
- None recorded as a stated preference. Two sourced visual facts sit close to one: his films open in black and let a window "gradually emerge in the dark" ([Songlines' description of *MESTRE! MESTRE!*](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)), and his agency's text names "the leaping colors of the projection" ([Murailles news](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/)) — descriptions of the work, not instructions for a room.
**For the art director** — their own visual vocabulary, as hints
- "a magic lantern or a crystal-ball camera" ([Murailles news](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/)) · "an optical ritual" ([Murailles bio](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/)) · "illusion, hypnosis, visual trance" ([Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema)).
**Content prompt** — about 45 words, 2–4 objects, no people, no camera
> A dark room. One wall runs with projected moving film. A worn travel bag lies open on bare floorboards, a small camera and three field recorders spilling out. A single wooden chapel pew faces the wall, angled as if dragged there.
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## Room Descriptions
1. **Signature** — Dark as a chapel. One wall runs with saturated film — a faraway ceremony, edited as you watch. Drums pulse under the floor; dust drifts in the beam. Stay six hours or six minutes; the door never locks and no one checks the time.
2. **Working** — A single bag gapes open on a trestle table: small camera, three field recorders, a wireless mic still coiled. Notebooks of village names, half in French. Playback murmurs low — singers finish a take somewhere, and someone laughs off-mic.
3. **Unexpected** — Hour eleven of twelve. A chapel pew, warm from the last visitor, faces the projection; the air smells faintly of candle wax. He promised a cinema you can leave and re-enter like a fair. On the door, a small star chalked by hand.
4. **Atmospheric** — At first the room is black, and only a low friction of sound. Then a window brightens over a street you can half hear, and the picture assembles itself slowly, like an eye adjusting. Nothing asks to be understood; everything asks to be watched.
5. **The Encounter** — He just left — chair pushed back, camera still warm, a lavalier clipped to the music stand. On the edit screen, a note: DON'T CUT YET. Down the hall, forty studio doors are opening, and you follow the sound of the nearest one.
---
## Image Prompt Variants
### Variant A — Sparse
**Objects** — 3 (travel bag, small broadcast camera, projection wall)
**Prompt** — A worn travel bag sits open on bare floorboards, a small broadcast camera resting beside it. Across the room, one entire wall runs with saturated moving color — a projected ritual, reds and greens bleeding at the edges. Nothing else. First notice: the burning wall of color. Second pull: the humble bag, absurdly small against it. Slow reveal: a coiled wireless mic spilling from the bag's mouth.
**Palette** — near-black, saturated crimson, phosphor green, dust-gray
**Lighting** — The only light is the projector's cool beam crossing from behind head-height, breaking into saturated color where it strikes the far wall; dust hangs in it, and everything outside the beam falls to near-black.
**Negative space** — the entire left two-thirds of the room and all upper air, held in darkness.
### Variant B — Curated
**Objects** — 6 (edit desk with laptop + fader controller, chapel pew, projection wall, row of three field recorders, coiled cables, short stack of hard drives)
**Prompt** — A live-editing desk — laptop, small fader controller, three field recorders in a row — faces a wall of projected saturated imagery. A single wooden chapel pew sits between desk and wall, angled as if dragged there. Coiled cables and a modest stack of hard drives wait on the floor by the desk leg. The desk surface is half bare. First notice: the projection. Second pull: the pew, empty, mid-room. Slow reveal: the drives — a world archive in a stack the height of a loaf.
**Palette** — charcoal, projection-cyan, warm wood, cable-black
**Lighting** — Cool spill from the projection washes the pew's back; a small neutral work light hangs low over the desk only, leaving the ceiling and corners unlit.
**Negative space** — the floor between pew and wall stays open; upper third of the frame is black air.
### Variant C — Layered
**Objects** — 9, in three zones (window; edit desk + recorders + notebooks + cables; pew + projection wall + bag + drive shelf)
**Prompt** — Three zones. Along one side, a tall window brightens over an unseen street, monastery-stone sill catching pale daylight, the room around it still shadowed. Center, the working zone: trestle edit desk with laptop and fader controller, field recorders, open travel notebooks, cables looping to the floor. Far zone, darkest: a chapel pew before a wall of saturated projected film, the packed travel bag by the door beneath a short shelf of hard drives and field-recording albums. First notice: the bright window emerging from black. Second pull: the burning projection wall opposite it — day and ritual facing each other. Slow reveal: the bag by the door, already zipped, ready to leave.
**Palette** — stone-gray daylight, ink shadow, saturated projection reds, paper cream
**Lighting** — Two competing sources — pale neutral daylight through the single window, and the projector's saturated beam in the far zone — with a wide band of true darkness between them; no other light.
**Negative space** — the dark middle band between window-light and projection-light, roughly a third of the room.
---
## Identity resolution
**Case A (rich seed), with the seed's Case B flag resolved.** "Vincent Moon" is a pseudonym — his own about page states it in the open: "**Vincent Moon** (real name **Mathieu Saura**, born August 25, 1979)" ([vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/); corroborated by [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon)). This is a pen name worn publicly for 20+ years, not a mask: every surface he controls self-presents as Vincent Moon, so the dossier and the room use that name. The Case-B-style convention that *does* apply: **Petites Planètes** is the project-world (a production company and collection co-run with his partner-collaborator **Priscilla Telmon** — [biography page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography)) — the room belongs to that world, and the person appears only as traces.
---
## Source Ledger
### Claims
| Claim | Source(s) | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| PEOPLE 2026 participant, Oct 10–11 | seed (authoritative for this fact) + own agenda [vincentmoon.com/agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/) + [peoplefestival.berlin/participants](https://peoplefestival.berlin/participants) | Confirmed |
| Co-creator of Michelberger Music 2016 / PEOPLE founding circle | [peoplefestival.berlin/about](https://peoplefestival.berlin/about) (festival's own text) | Confirmed (festival-official; seed press note matches) |
| *PEOPLE ★ a music film by vincent moon* — official film, leads festival's Past Editions page | [peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions](https://peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions) + [YouTube title](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015EFoHmiGo) | Confirmed |
| Real name Mathieu Saura, b. 25 Aug 1979, Paris | [vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) (self-stated) + [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) | Confirmed / Self-stated |
| Co-creator of Blogothèque's Take Away Shows (with Christophe "Chryde" Abric), 2006–2009; 200+ videos (REM, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens…) | [self-stated](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) + [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) + [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) | Confirmed |
| NYT dubbed him "the re-inventor of the music video" (2011) | [his bio's NYT link](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography) + [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) citation — [original NYT page](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/vincent-moons-take-away-videos.html) not fetched | Confirmed at second hand († toward the exact wording) |
| Duo/partnership with Priscilla Telmon; Petites Planètes = their production company | [petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography) + [/en/vision](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision) (self-stated) | Self-stated (canonical) |
| 1,300+ films open source (self) vs "more than 1,600 films" (agency) | [vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) vs [muraillesmusic.com bio](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) | Contested (growth-drift; both cited, neither silently picked) |
| Gear list fits in one bag; works alone or with one helper; films every ~2 days; gives a copy back to the community | [about page TECHNOLOGY](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) + [Songlines direct quotes](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) | Confirmed |
| Live Cinéma = real-time editing (VDMX) + live music (Ableton), venue-adapted, sometimes local musicians | [about page](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) + [Murailles](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) | Confirmed |
| Expanded Live Cinéma: 12h Capilla Sadi Carnot CDMX (2026-02-08); 6h Banlieues Bleues (2026-03-29) | [own agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/) + [Murailles news](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/) + [banlieuesbleues.org](https://www.banlieuesbleues.org/festival/evenement/5397/2026-03-29-1200-festival-vincent-moons-live-cinema/) / tickettailor listing (URL not recorded in v3) | Confirmed |
| Aug 15–22 2026 Ireland/UK tour (Kells, The Stables, Another Love Story) — mid-tour as of the original dossier | [thewire.co.uk events](https://www.thewire.co.uk/events/vincent-moon-live-cinema-2026) + [own agenda](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/) | Confirmed |
| La Symphonie de Ségriès: 20 musicians, ~10 days, Provence monastery, public final concert, CC recordings; Sept 20–28 2026, led by Moon w/ Julien Colardelle & Julie Henoch | [symphonie.cc](https://symphonie.cc/) + [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) | Confirmed |
| Híbridos: 5 years, MoMA→Barbican | [self-stated only here](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography) | † (third-party-verifiable career claim, unverified) |
| Live Cinéma presented at MoMA, Barbican, Humboldt Forum, Quai Branly, etc. | [about page list](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) | † (self-stated venue list, spot-unverified) |
| Refuses video calls; "birds singings"; Rimbaud nickname | [Songlines quotes](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) + [vision page](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision) | Confirmed (attributed) |
| Photo on The National's *Alligator* cover; videos for the band | [fr.wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) + [Songlines](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) | Confirmed |
| **Invented, tagged**: candle-wax smell (room 3); chalked star on door (room 3 — riffs on the *PEOPLE ★* title, the giant original is Eric Timothy Carlson's); off-mic laughter in playback (room 2); "DON'T CUT YET" note (room 5); bag "ready to leave" staging (Variant C) | — | Invented (room-color only, never fact) |
### Retrieval
| URL | Status |
|---|---|
| [petitesplanetes.earth/](https://petitesplanetes.earth/) | thin (carousel shell) |
| [petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/biography) · [/en/vision](https://petitesplanetes.earth/en/vision) | ok |
| [petitesplanetes.earth/about](https://petitesplanetes.earth/about) | 404 (correct paths are /en/…) |
| [vincentmoon.com/about/](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) · [/agenda/](https://vincentmoon.com/agenda/) | ok (rich; /page-agenda.html variant is a JS filter shell) |
| [peoplefestival.berlin/about](https://peoplefestival.berlin/about) · [/past-editions](https://peoplefestival.berlin/past-editions) · [/participants](https://peoplefestival.berlin/participants) | ok |
| [muraillesmusic.com artist page](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/artistes/vincent-moon-live-cinema/) · [news 2026-03-01](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/) | ok |
| [songlines.co.uk Nomad Cinema feature](https://www.songlines.co.uk/content/features/vincent-moon-nomad-cinema) | ok (full interview) |
| [symphonie.cc](https://symphonie.cc/) | ok |
| [thewire.co.uk tour listing](https://www.thewire.co.uk/events/vincent-moon-live-cinema-2026) | ok |
| [fr.wikipedia.org Vincent Moon](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Moon) | ok (en.wikipedia has no article) |
| [petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com](https://petitesplanetes.bandcamp.com/) | thin (logged-out shell; not escalated — release data not load-bearing) |
| [youtube.com PEOPLE film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015EFoHmiGo) | walled (consent page, rung 1; title + festival page sufficed) |
| [instagram.com/petites___planetes](https://www.instagram.com/petites___planetes/) | not attempted — recency already covered by his own agenda + 2026 press |
| [nytimes.com 2011 profile](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/magazine/vincent-moons-take-away-videos.html) | not fetched (quote carried second-hand, marked) |
### Images
| File | Origin page | Shows | Thread |
|---|---|---|---|
| `img/vincent-moon/00-portrait.jpg` | [vincentmoon.com/about](https://vincentmoon.com/about/) | Black-and-white photo of Moon in a bare, peeling ballroom with a drum kit and string lights — the photo on his own About page | header |
| — | — | No self-presented image for the founder thread: his *PEOPLE ★* film exists online only as a YouTube thumbnail on the Michelberger Hotel channel and as third-party festival "impressions" on the Past Editions page. | 1 |
| `img/vincent-moon/02-banlieues-bleues-6h.jpg` | [muraillesmusic.com news, 2026-03-01](https://www.muraillesmusic.com/en/news/vincent-moon-live-cinema-de-6h-a-banlieues-bleues-290326/) | Flyer for the 6-hour Live Cinéma at Banlieues Bleues (Mar 29): Moon at a mixer in the dark, audience around him (his booking agency's post) | 2 |
| — | — | No self-presented photo of the bag or kit found on his site, Bandcamp, or agency page; the kit is text only. | 3 |
| `img/vincent-moon/04-symphonie-2026-affiche.png` | [symphonie.cc](https://symphonie.cc/) | 2026 edition poster of La Symphonie de Ségriès — title curving over a dark-red arch; concert Sept 26–27, 20 musicians | 4 |
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## Process self-report
**Sources**: 13 fetched surfaces + 3 web searches; failures were shells/walls (Bandcamp, YouTube consent, homepage carousel), none load-bearing. **Wall-clock**: ~15 minutes. **Threads they care about**: 4 strong ones found — founder-coming-home (festival's own pages), 2026 marathon Live Cinémas, the one-bag kit (self-enumerated down to model numbers), and Ségriès-as-sibling-ritual with a Sept→Oct handoff straight into PEOPLE. This subject is the opposite of thin — the friction was abundance: the self-stated surface is so articulate that the discipline was verifying rather than digging. **Skill friction**: (1) the seed's "Case B consideration" resolved into something the ladder doesn't quite name — a *personal pseudonym* worn as the primary public identity is neither project-alias nor plain Case A; I handled it as A-with-a-note, and the skill could name this sub-case. (2) Two self-surfaces disagreed on film count (1,300+ vs his agency's 1,600+) — "Contested" per the taxonomy, but this is benign staleness-drift between an artist's own pages, and a lighter marker ("growth-drift") might stop it reading like a dispute. (3) YouTube consent walls block fetch.py at rung 1; festival re-hosting made escalation unnecessary, but a note in the skill that official festival/venue pages often mirror walled video metadata would save a rung.
Retrofit to v4.1, 2026-09-15: format pass only — links, bullets, images (3 pulled), Sketch Brief; research unchanged.
Reshaped to v4.2, 2026-09-15: reading order and paragraphing only.
