music video directors

cosmic girl- jamiroquai

Jonathan Glazer was born in 1966 in the city of London, in his lifetime he has directed of films, commercials and music videos. he is very well know for his originality and individual ideas.
After studying theatre design at Nottingham Trent University he started out directing career by going into theatre and making film and television trailers. this includes award-winning work for the BBC.

In 1993 he wrote and directed three short films of his own "Mad", "Pool" and "Commission", and joined Academy Commercials. He has directed a well known campaigns for Guinness (Swimblack and Surfer) and Stella Artois(Devils Island).

Since the mid-1990s he has directed a number of music videos, and was named MTV Director of the Year 1997.
Glazer's well known feature film was the critically acclaimed Sexy Beasts (2000). He co-wrote his second film Birth (2004), starring Nicole Kidman.

His work has always baffled audiences, such as in 'Virtual Insanity' by Jamiroquai where the floor under the artist seems to move, and he is pulled along with it. some argued that they thought that all the pieces of furniture and the artist where super imposed onto the background, or that the floor was moving. in fact these assumptions are wrong and the wonderful idea is actually that the walls and ceiling are not stuck to the floor and is actually moving around instead of the floor. this genius shows in most of his videos.

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his music videos:

Karmacoma by Massive Attack (1995)
The Universal by Blur (1995)
Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead (1996)
Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai (1996)
Cosmic Girl by Jamiroquai (1997)
Into My Arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1997)
Karma Police by Radiohead (1997)
Rabbit in Your Headlights by UNKLE ft. Thom Yorke (1998)
A Song for the Lovers by Richard Ashcroft (2000)
Live with Me by Massive Attack (2006)

Chris Cunningham (a.k.a Chris Halls) is an acclaimed English music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.

Cunningham has had close ties to 'Warp Records' since his first production for Autechre. His infamous video for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" is perhaps his most well known. His video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love" won multiple awards, including an MTV music video award for Breakthrough Video and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.

Come to Daddy is both disturbing and artistically brilliant. it literally pulls you into another dimension and only through its strange and utterly insane ideas could it have achieved this. a skinny grotesque figure with translucent skin pulls itself 0ut of a TV and scares an old lady! to be such a visionary, one has to question their sanity.

"Another Day" (1996) video for Lodestar
"Back With The Killer Again" (1996) video for The Auteurs
"Light Aircraft On Fire" (1996) video for The Auteurs
"Second Bad Vilbel" (1996) video for Autechre
"36 Degrees" (1996) video for Placebo
"Personally" (1997) video for 12 Rounds
"Something To Say" (1997) video for Jocasta
"Tranquillizr" (1997) video for Geneva
"Jesus Coming In For The Kill" (1997) video for Life's Addiction
"The Next Big Thing" (1997) video for Jesus Jones
"No More Talk" (1997) video for Dubstar
"Come To Daddy" (1997) video for Aphex Twin
"Only You" (1998) video for Portishead
"Frozen" (1998) video for Madonna
"Come On My Selector" (1998) video for Squarepusher
"All Is Full of Love" (1999) video for Björk
"Windowlicker" (1999) video for Aphex Twin
"Afrika Shox" (1999) video for Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa
"Flex" (2000), using "Flex" by Aphex Twin
"Monkey Drummer" (2001), using "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels mount" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
"Rubber Johnny" (2005), using "Afx237 V7" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
"Sheena Is A Parasite" (2006), video for The Horrors
"Aparatus" (2006), using "Vordhosbn" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
"Nannou" (2007), using "Nannou" from Aphex Twin's single Windowlicker

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