leading music video directors to launch DVD series

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i droned on and on about it and eventually they listened...

PALM PICTURES AND DIRECTORS LAUNCH DVD SERIES

Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham have teamed up with Palm Pictures to launch The Directors Label, a director-created and compiled DVD series featuring music videos, shorts, commercials and special features including interviews, alternate versions, short films, documentaries and behind the scenes footage.

The first in the series will feature work from Spike Jonze's and be
available from 26 Aug. The second will be from Chris Cunningham and the third Michel Gondry.

now excuse me will i just asphyxiate...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 13 June 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

OOOOOH gimme gimme

What happened to Warp Films, btw?

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds of utter worth.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I just wet myself.

― jm (jtm), Friday, 13 June 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This sounds lovely.

I picked up a DVD collection of Bjork's last few videos yesterday. The Vespertine videos are gorgeous, but watching Cunningham's "All Is Full Of Love" again made me really hanker for a collection of his videos.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 13 June 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

they've been talking about this for over a year - nice to see an actual release date.

(I hope we get to see some of Gondry's earlier French stuff - I still haven't seen "Lucas With The Lid Off", etc).

(& haven't these people already released a Hype Williams DVD?)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 14 June 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Warp Films actually released their first DVD this past spring -- Chris Morris's "My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117," a 15-minute short (which won a BAFTA award, as I recall). Haven't heard anything about upcoming releases, though.

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Saturday, 14 June 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

That Chris Morris DVD is brilliant and pretty cheap too.
Get it.

― mei (mei), Saturday, 14 June 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hype Williams videos are all style and no substance, tho the Missy and Busta ones are totally classic.

hopefully the Gondry one will not feature Bjork as you can get that elsewhere - his Lucas, Stardust, Oui Oui, Donald Fagen, Sinead O Connor and IAm videos all deserve inclusion.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 14 June 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

music videos in style over substance shockah!

(did the White Stripes help raise Gondry's profile in the US or was it the other way around (sorta)?)

(& Jonze/Gondry/Cunningham have been around for a while - who are the up&comers? Shynola obv - who else?)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 15 June 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

H5 (Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and Herve de Crecy - Etienne's brother) have created some of the best videos of the last 4 years too including SFA's 'Juxtaposed With U', Air's 'How Does It Make You Feel', Royksopp's 'Remind Me', Massive Attack's 'Special Cases' and Alex Gopher's 'The Child'. i think Herve is also the guy behind the Etienne De Crecy videos (Am I Wrong, Scratched) and those recent Fanta adverts with Stylophonic's 'Soul Reply' playing over the top.

i also rate Alex & Martin (Cassius, 'Seven Nation Army', Air's 'Radio#1')

and Tim Hope (One Giant Leap's 'For My Culture', Coldplay 'Don't Panic (US version)

Joel Lava (Roy Davis Jr's 'Rock Shock')

Plexu (Futureshock's 'Pride's paranoia', something by Plaid)

but yeh Shynola are still the absolute dons

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 November 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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