Frank Vroegop

Frank Vroegop is a Dutch multimedia artist, filmmaker, music composer & producer and contemporary artist born on 19 June 1960 in Terneuzen in the Netherlands.

Frank Vroegop left the Netherlands for France when he was 12. After high-school at the Lyceum International in Paris, he started studying Architecture at the Beaux Arts in Paris. During his studies, he worked as an educator with children (recreation centre & handicapped centre). He gave up his studies and began creating videos with home computers (Amiga, Apple) and making animated films and experimental music videos to illustrate his own musical creations.In 1984, Frank Vroegop studied contemporary music at the IRCAM / Paris.

From the 80s, Frank Vroegop directed more than 50 music videos mainly for French artists: Jean-Louis Aubert, Louis Bertignac, Gérald de Palmas, Affaire Louis Trio, Patrick Bruel, Zebda, Clarika, Massilia Sound System, Ludwig Von 88, Burma Shave, Elton John, Tarkan, etc. These music videos are often grounds for technical experiments. Frank Vroegop uses all types of cameras, formats and emulsions: from Super 8 to 65mm film cameras, high-speed cameras, endoscopic cameras, digital cameras prototypes, motion controlled cameras, etc. Many realizations combine real filming with frame-by-frame animation : traditional animations with paper, clay, paint & volumes and computer animation, computer graphics & digital post-production visual effects. Since 1996, Frank Vroegop has directed over 300 commercials worldwide, mostly with spectacular special effects for brands such as Ford, Volkswagen, Audi, Lexus, Toyota, Toyota F1, Porsche, Nissan, Infiniti, Citroen, Dodge, General Motors, Cadillac, Opel, Mercedes, Peugeot, Tata, Mahindra, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Tropicana, Panasonic, Timex, Danone, several beer brands, etc. He also filmed a large number of celebrities for the L'Oréal brand, including: Beyoncé Knowless, Claudia Schiffer, Milla Jovovich, Natalia Vodianova, Virginie Ledoyen, etc. and also worked with several international stars: Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu, Bollywood star Katrina Kaif, Vietnamese singer Tóc Tiên, etc. He made all the films for the launch of the brand L'Oréal - Men Expert. He has also worked extensively with athletes: international football players for Pepsi and Danone, international rugby players, Formula 1 drivers, paratroopers, etc., Frank Vroegop has won numerous awards at festivals around the world including Lion d'Or, Bronze Lion in Cannes, Epica Awards, Golden Drum Awards Portoros and more. He also supports NGOs. He has directed several films for Reporters Without Borders, Nicolas Hulot Foundation and Nobody's Children Foundation.

In 2008, he created the production, animation & post-production company Delapost Paris (http://dlpparis.com/). Delapost Paris produces 2D and 3D animation, VFX as well as live action contents for commercials, music videos and short films.

With Delapost Paris, he has directed and produced the video stage design for Jean-Louis Aubert's Roc'Eclair Tour 2011- 2012' for Roc éclair album. There were 80 dates/450 000 spectators in total for that tour which was given a Victoire de la Musique award in 2012. A DVD and CD have been released from the recorded concert at the Paris-Bercy Palais Omnisport, for which Frank Vroegop also made the graphic designs and photography works.

As a visual artist, Frank Vroegop develops a personal artistic career.His work, in the form of painting and photographs has been the subject of several exhibitions. His 'Feral Painting' style is freely inspired by the Cobra movement and American action-painting (http://vimeo.com/58946949). He developed in his paintings the "feral" concept, which represents notion of going back to the wild, to a natural instinct, after being domesticated and then leaving the civilized world. He collaborated with filmmaker & painter Tony Kaye on several music videos and on the documentary ‘Saigon Compromise’.

Frank Vroegop and Marco Rosano are also members and producers of the experimental pop group Vavox (http://vavox.be). Frank Vroegop is an active member of the Vavox collective and has produced all the Vavox artwork : videos, photos & design. Frank Vroegop and Marco Rosano also composed and produced an original contemporary version of the Stabat Mater with counter-tenor singer Andreas Scholl. For the first time in the history of music the Vavox - Stabat Mater mixes a 13th-century Latin text, a counter-tenor voice, percussion and analogue & modular synthesizers. In October 2015, as part of the Amsterdam Dance Event, the Vavox - Stabat Mater was performed live in the Westerkerk, the largest church in Amsterdam with an impressive video show (9x3 meter HD screen). The “Vavox-Be” & “Vavox-Stabat Mater” albums are available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, etc.

Frank Vroegop composed and produced the great majority of the music of his commercials with composer Marco Rosano. He shares with Marco Rosano a vintage analogue recording studio and a large collection of analogue synthesizers and keyboards: Moog, Arp, Oberheim, Roland, Mellotron, Hammond, Rhodes, Chroma, Höhner, Eurorack, etc. (http://vavox.be/#!studio/c24zx). Apart from the music intended for the image (about 75% of the music of its commercials), the Vintage Studio also produced the compositions of Marco Rosano with the counter-tenor Andreas Scholl as well as the band Pop Machine.

Commercials

• Cannes Lion 2000 Golden - "Le plaisir" for Manix
• London International Advertising Awards - "Le plaisir" for Manix
• Cresta Awards - "Le plaisir" for Manix
• Effie France Award - "Le plaisir" for Manix
• Grand Prix Stratégies - "Le plaisir" for Manix
• MENA Crystal award - "Cog City/Clockwork" for Sagia
• Dubai Lynx Bronze award - "Cog City/Clockwork" for Sagia
• Cannes Lion 2008 Bronze -"Execution" for Nobody's Children Foundation
• Golden Drum 2007 -"Execution" for Nobody's Children Foundation
• Actdove 2008 -"Execution" for Nobody's Children Foundation
• EACA Care Awards 2008 The Winners Non-profit Organisations and Non-governmental Bodies Award -"Execution" for Nobody's Children Foundation
• Epica Silver Awards 2007 -"Execution" for Nobody's Children Foundation
• London "Let's All Be Free Film Festival" 2013 – Winner Expressions-Award for "Feral Painter"
• Victiore de la Musique - "Jean-Louis Aubert - Roc’Eclair Tour"
• Festival PROTOCLIP 2011 -PRIX DE LA QUALITE TECHNIQUE 2011 / Jean-Louis Aubert "Puisses-Tu"
• Digigraph Bruxelles - l’INA – Imagina 1990 – K’mel Brother Rap