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5 unusual facts about Spike Jonze


French house

Along with Air these acts were signed to Virgin Records and benefited from distinctive music videos directed by the likes of Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Alex & Martin.

One Step Ahead of the Spider

The video was directed by Spike Jonze and was included in a Beavis and Butt-head episode, which featured Beavis mimicking the musical beat and Butt-head becoming annoyed as a result.

Shady Lane

The single was accompanied by a promotional video directed by Spike Jonze.

This Is Happening

The first single, "Drunk Girls", was released in April 2010, with a music video directed by Spike Jonze.

Volvo S40

The 8 minutes long film was credited to fictitious Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Soto; in reality, as was disclosed later, it was directed by Spike Jonze.


DeadCENTER Film Festival

The festival runs for five days every year in June and has attracted numerous celebrity guests such as Spike Jonze, Famke Janssen, Chris Kattan, James Marsden, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Lauren Greenfield, Albert Ruddy, and Wayne White.

Gold Lion

Karen O had contributed vocals to ad's song composed by Sam "Squeak E. Clean" Spiegel, brother of Karen's then-boyfriend Spike Jonze who had directed the ad.

Lance Acord

He earned the MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”, which featured Christopher Walken and was directed by Spike Jonze.

Mayer Hawthorne

The song "When I Said Goodbye", was featured in the Kanye West/Spike Jonze short film We Were Once a Fairytale.

Meaghan Davies

She has also appeared in guest roles on a variety of television shows including All Saints, Medivac, and Cushion Kids, and worked with directors including Neil Armfield, Spike Jonze, Nadia Tass, Michael Kantor, Craig Handley, Karl Zwicky, Scott Feeney and Ian Munro.

Nicola Black

In the late 1990s, she produced and directed the pop-promo series Mirrorball, featuring profiles on Spike Jonze, Mike Mills, Roman Coppola, Michel Gondry and Dawn Shadforth.

RESFest

The first year’s program featured work from pioneering music video and motion graphics studio H-Gun Labs, England’s design collective Tomato, digital designer Nick Philip and filmmaker Spike Jonze, whose early skateboard short films were screened.

A large part of the festival's latter content focused on cutting-edge music videos and short films, and directors like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Jonathan Glazer all had their catalogs of work showcased at RESFEST over its 10 year run.

Scott Gardenhour

Gardenhour began his career as an independent producer before joining Propaganda Films, the prolific music video and film production house that launched the careers of Michael Bay, David Fincher, David Lynch, Spike Jonze and Mark Romanek, to name a few.

Simon Wakelin

He has worked on commercials and music videos alongside Ridley Scott, John Frankenheimer, Sydney Pollack, Spike Jonze and Marcus Nispel.

Style Wars

On June 9, 2011 it was announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea along with actors Brad Pitt and James Franco and director Spike Jonze were donating items to an eBay auction that would raise money for restoring the film negatives for Style Wars.

Susan Orlean

The book formed the basis of Charlie Kaufman's script for the Spike Jonze film Adaptation. Orlean (portrayed by Meryl Streep in an Oscar-nominated role) was, in effect, made into a fictional character; the movie portrayed her as becoming Laroche's lover and partner in a drug production operation, in which orchids were processed into a fictional psychoactive substance.

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak is a 2009 television documentary film directed by Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze about children's author Maurice Sendak.

The Information

#* The Exoskeleton section contains dialogue spoken by Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze.

Urban golf

Urban golfing was prominently featured in a popular 1994 Spike Jonze-directed music video of Dinosaur Jr's Feel the Pain.


see also

Tony Maxwell

He was one of the dancers in Weezer's "Buddy Holly" video directed by Spike Jonze, he played the Dog Boy in Jonze's video for Daft Punk's "Da Funk" and "Fresh", he choreographed the Dance of Despair in Jonze's Being John Malkovich, and he was Nicolas Cage's body double in Jonze's Adaptation..