His real name is Mathieu Saura. But it's under the name of Vincent Moon that music fans from all over the world - or at least those with an internet connection - know the 30-year-old comet of a filmmaker, who has reinvented the music video as a documentary. After having studied under the photgraphers Michael Ackerman and Antoine D'Agata, the young music nerd started getting increasingly interested in moving images. The combination of music and film could easily have ended in MTV-land. But according to Moon, the usual music video has long been stuck in a closed marketing circuit.

With his 'Take Away Shows', he has since 2006 offered a non-commercial alternative: small, short films that capture the musicians out in the alleys, hallways and elevators of reality, without amplifiers or special effects. The Take Away Shows paved the way for larger film projects, and Saura's far-reaching resumé now also includes concert films and documentaries - all of them equipped with the special shadow/light aesthetic that can give his images an almost abstract quality.

Moon's greatest strength, however, is his ability to capture the music without superfluous embellishments. He is a musical adventurer, constantly seeking for new musical treasure chests. But he not only discovers: he also participates, with his camera as an instrument - and as an initiator of events, like when he fills an apartment with a handful of Danish bands to play for and against each other ('Temporary Copenhagen'). Even during his visit at CPH:DOX, Moon will bring reality into motion, look foreward to a live 'performance' of the film 'Little Blue Nothing' and the recording of a new Take Away Show.