Research into Music Video directors

Spike Jonze:

Is an American director, producer, screenwrite and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.

He started his feature film directing career with 'Being John Malkovich' (1999) and 'Adaptation' (2002), both of these were written by Charlie Kaufman, and then he started movies with screenplays of his own with 'Where the Wild Things Are' (2009) and 'Her' (2013).

Spike Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Fatboy Slim, Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Bjork. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's 'Jackass'.

He was a co-founder and editor of Dirt magazine along with Mark Lewman and Andy Jenkins, as well as an editor for Grand Royal Magazine and senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding. In the past he shot street skateboarding videos, Blinds high influential Video Days in 1991 and Lakai Footwear's Fully Flared in 2007. Also he co-directed the Girl Skateboards film Yeah Right! and the Chocolate Skateboards video Hot Chocolate.

Spike Jonze is one of the greatest music video directors of all time. 'The Breeders' 'Cannonbal' (1993) was rated one of his best music videos.