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American actor and filmmaker Spike Jonze (born October 22, 1969) has directed four feature films, 60-plus music videos, and numerous commercials, short films and skateboarding videos. He has also occasionally worked as an actor.
Spike Jonze | Career Retrospective. 15 Videos. 99+ Photos. Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine.
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- Rockville, Maryland, USA
Influential filmmaker, Spike Jonze, looks back on his career and discusses how skateboarding influenced his work from groundbreaking music videos to Jackass to an Academy Award.
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Aug 9, 2013 · Her Trailer 2013 - Official movie trailer in HD 1080p - starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson - directed by Spik...
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- 20 Video Days
- 19 Goldfish
- 18 "100%" - Sonic Youth
- 17 "It's OH So Quiet" - Björk
- 16 Yeah Right!
- 15 "Undone (The Sweater Song)" - Weezer
- 14 Scenes from The Suburbs
- 13 "Otis" - Jay Z & Kanye West
- 12 Pretty Sweet
- 11 Jackass
Before becoming a sought after one of a kind filmmaker, Spike Jonze was a BMX and skateboarding magazine photographer. When the owner of the magazine/skateboard company, World Industries, handed off his credit card and told Spike to buy a video camera and some editing equipment, his life was changed forever. Video Dayshas gone down in skateboarding...
When Spike and his pro skater best friends decided to leave World Industries, they launched their own company - Girl. Goldfish was the very first video from Girl Skateboards. Directed by Spike, it featured an introductory chase scene in which a skater is riding fast down the hills of San Franciscowhile being chased by a perpetrator in a white sedan...
When bassist of Sonic Youth Kim Gordon saw Video Days, the band called Spike to hire him for a music video. They loved the ending of the infamous skate video, in which Spike and his friends drive a car off a cliff and crash it into an unsuspecting rock formation. Sonic Youth complimented Spike on Video Daysfor its voyeuristic approach and told him ...
A tribute to old Hollywood'stechnicolor musical era, Spike's work on Björk's music video for "It's Oh So Quiet" is a phenomenal and original homage. Bjork was supposedly 9 months pregnant during filming, yet she and Spike felt so passionately about the project that they went on filming. The music video is a vaudeville style dance number that was so...
Another one of Spike's feature length skateboarding videos that took skyrocketed the expectations of what the genre should be. More than just a feature on the 2003 Girl skateboards team, Yeah Right!contained a cinematic introduction with special effects that had never been seen before. Using the power of green screen and chroma key, Spike painted s...
Weezer's self-titled debut album was set to have no music videos since figurehead Rivers Cuomo didn't like any of the directors hired by the record label. When they turned around and hired Spike Jonze, everything changed. Spike pitched an idea for a video that reflected what he saw on Weezer's album cover, four regular dudes playing in a band. Not ...
Scenes from the Suburbs is a short film created by Spike to assist in promoting Canadian rock band Arcade Fire's second album The Suburbs. With a 30-minute run time, the short film is a puzzling science fiction narrative taking place in a war torn suburban area. Filmed in Austin, Texas, it follows a group of adolescents finding the means to explore...
Named music video of the year at the 2012 BET awards, as well as Billboard's fourth-best music video of the 2010s, Otis may be Spike Jonze's most critically successful venture as a music video director. The video begins with rappers Jay Z and Kanye West approaching a glistening new Chrysler Maybach 57 with a blow torch and circular saw in hand. The...
Pretty Sweet is another skateboard video directed by Spike for Girl Skateboards. Taking the leap into high definition, it was another evolutionary feature length video for the world of skateboarding. Somewhat of a direct spiritual successor to Yeah Right!, Pretty Sweet also features cameos from Hollywood actors. Jack Blackand Will Arnett play the r...
The brainchild of Spike Jonze and series producer Jeff Tremaine, Jackass has become a blockbuster series that has somewhat served to define Spike's career. Amidst becoming a popular music video director and working on Hollywood feature films, Spike was simultaneously always working on the raunchy stunt-comedy series with his friends. Jackassstars c...
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Aug 20, 2024 · Spike Jonze, American director and producer known for his visually arresting and innovative music videos and films. He was especially noted for the videos for Fatboy Slim’s ‘Praise You’ and ‘Weapon of Choice’ and for such movies as Being John Malkovich and Where the Wild Things Are.
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Jonze's filmmaking style made him an in-demand director of music videos for much of the 1990s, resulting in collaborations with R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Ween, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Weezer, Björk, Arcade Fire and Kanye West.
