Spike Jonze Rarities
Spike Jonze is easily one of the most prolific and successful music video directors of the 1990s. Not only is the inventive director's video oeuvre a testament to his ability to slice, dice and re-jig pop cultural fodder, but Jonze's list of musical collaborators reads like a music critic's decade of favorites. Kitsch, choreography, deft use of digital post techniques and an oddball, yet endearing, humor that speaks the vernacular of both the jaded hipster and the Middle-American teen, help compose Jonze's music video style. And while Jonze has become one of the most inventive feature film directors of the new millennium, many people don't realize that he is also the director of a collection of short films which share with his videos and feature films an unfettered and original humor. This particular collection of rarely seen projects includes the world premiere of Torrance Rises, which documents the Torrance Dance Community on the road to its grand performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, as well as a music video for Oasis that never happened.
Torrance Rises (1999)
Directed by Lance Bangs with Torrance Community Dance Group
The Oasis Video that Never Happened (1997)
Big Train: Mike Watt (1995)
Weapon of Choice: Fatboy Slim
with Christopher Walken commentary (2001)
Five Stop Mother Superior Rain: The Flaming Lips (1995)
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MICHEL GONDRY RETROSPECTIVE
Michel Gondry's early precision with geometric concepts and his roots as a post-art school Parisian rock drummer are not the only factors setting the world-renowned visual innovator apart. Indeed, Gondry's ongoing collaborations with Björk and The White Stripes succinctly suggest his seemingly inexhaustible well of visually and conceptually profound ideas and his understanding of what it takes to harness the visual medium to attain maximum impact. Never before seen special effects - both wildly inventive in-camera creations and the groundbreaking digital techniques created in tandem with his younger brother Olivier "Twist" - have also come to be synonymous with any new Gondry video clip. Gondry's inspired projects invariably involve one part science and one part punk rock DIY, which has, unsurprisingly, earned the director a place in the upper echelon of not only music video creators, but also in advertising and, increasingly, feature film. This retrospective presents Gondry's earliest videos created for his own band, Oui Oui, tests revealing the director's prescient explorations of seminal effects (such as the "frozen moment"), groundbreaking commercials and, of course, a smorgasbord of music video magic, including Gondry's latest for The White Stripes' "The Hardest Button to Button."
Around The World / Daft Punk
Bachelorette / Björk
Come Into My World / Kylie Minogue
Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground / White Stripes
Drugstore / Levi's
Drumb and Drumber (short film)
Everlong / Foo Fighters
Fell in Love with a Girl / White Stripes
Human Behavior / Björk
Knives Out / Radiohead
La Tour de Pise / Jean Francois Coen
La Ville / Oui Oui
Le Mia / I Am
Leo / Nike
Les Cailloux / Oui Oui
Let Forever Be / The Chemical Brothers
Like a Rolling Stone / Rolling Stones
Privacy / Earthlink
Resignation / Polaroid
Smarienberg / Smirnoff
Star Guitar / The Chemical Brothers
Sugar Water / Cibo Matto
Swap / Levi's
Timelapse Test
Big thanks to Jon.
