Directors Label

Directors Label

Directors Label is a series of DVDs devoted to notable music video directors. First released in 2003 by Palm Pictures, the series was created by Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry, the subjects of the first three volumes. Four new volumes were released in 2005, this time featuring Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Anton Corbijn and Stéphane Sednaoui. Though another series has not yet been confirmed, other directors rumoured to be in future releases are Hammer & Tongs (director/producer duo Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith), Mike Mills, Shynola, Samuel Bayer, Jonas Åkerlund, Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Roman Coppola. A second volume of Gondry's work has been released. [1]

Contents

Volume 1: The Work of Director Spike Jonze

Music videos

Special Features

  • The Interviews
  • Making of Drop with The Pharcyde
  • Audio commentaries from Fatboy Slim, Weezer, The Pharcyde, Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, Bjork, Christopher Walken, Puffy and more. Also includes Beastie Boys commentary on a selection of the videos.

Documentaries

52 Page Book

Jonze's photographs, drawings and interviews

Volume 2: The Work of Director Chris Cunningham

Music videos

Special Features

Making of All Is Full of Love

Other Work

  • Monkey Drummer - Video installation. Featuring music by Aphex Twin
  • flex - Excerpt from video installation. Featuring music by Aphex Twin
  • Mental Wealth - PlayStation commercial
  • Photocopier - Never seen Levi's commercial
  • Engine - Nissan commercial, featuring music by Boards of Canada
  • Windowlicker - Bleeped version

52 Page Book

Behind the scenes photographs, storyboards, sketchbook drawings, record cover art and interview

Volume 3: The Work of Director Michel Gondry

Music videos

Special Features

  • I've Been 12 Forever (Parts 1 & 2)

Stories And Things

  • La Lettre
  • One Day
  • Lacuna Inc
  • Drugstore - Levi's Commercial
  • Smarienberg - Schmiernoff Commercial
  • Resignation - Polaroid Commercial
  • Drumb and Drumber
  • Pecan Pie - A short film starring Jim Carrey
  • Three Dead People
  • My Brother's 24th Birthday
  • Tiny
  • Spin Art
  • Oui Oui - Live concert footage
  • Chris Cunningham

52 Page Book

Michel's stories, drawings photographs & interviews.

Omissions

Trailers for "Volume 3: The Work Of Director Michel Gondry" (found on the Volume 1 and Volume 2 DVDs, as well as on Palm Pictures' website) include clips of, as well as references to, Gondry's heavily autobiographical video for Radiohead's "Knives Out." It is unclear why this video was omitted from the final DVD; however, as of June 2008, it is available on the compilation DVD Radiohead: The Best Of, released by EMI after the band had left its contract.

On August 2009, "Knives Out" along with other omissions and more recent works of Gondry's were released on a follow-up DVD appropriately titled, "Michel Gondry 2: More Videos (Before and After DVD 1)' for sale exclusively on michelgondry.com

Volume 4: The Work of Director Mark Romanek

Music videos

Special Features

  • The Work of Director Mark Romanek (38-minute documentary)
  • Romanekian - Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Robin Williams discuss Mark's work
  • The Making of "99 Problems"
  • Interviews and commentaries

56 Page Book

Includes photographs by Mark Romanek and Spike Jonze interview with Mark

Volume 5: The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer

Music videos

Special Features

  • Ride - Wrangler commercial
  • Surfer (extended) - Guinness commercial
  • Swim Back - Guinness commercial
  • Dreamer - Guinness commercial
  • Protection - Volkswagen commercial
  • Last Orders - Stella Artois commercial
  • Whip Round - Stella Artois commercial
  • Kung Fu - Levi's commercial
  • Odyssey - Levi's commercial
  • Bull - Barclays commercial featuring Samuel L. Jackson
  • Chicken - Barclays commercial featuring Samuel L. Jackson
  • Interviews and Commentaries

Films

  • Sexy Beast (excerpt) You're the Problem
  • Interviews with Ray Winstone and Sir Ben Kingsley
  • Birth (excerpt) Central Park
  • Interviews with Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Harris Savides, Milo Addica and Jean-Claude Carriere

Tramp

Paul Kaye

56 Page Book

Includes photographs, sketches, storyboards and interview.

Volume 6: The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

Music videos

Special Features (stuff)

  • Beck and Dave Grohl MTV Promos
  • U2 - The Making of "Electrical Storm"
  • Some YoYo Stuff
  • Travis - Love Will Come Through (home made video with Fran Healy)
  • Depeche Mode - "It's No Good" tour projections
  • Palais Schaumburg - Hockey (Anton's first music video)
  • Front 242 - Front By Front
  • NotNa - a documentary by Lance Bangs about Anton[2]
  • Interviews and commentaries

56 Page Book

Anton's photos, text and drawings.

Volume 7: The Work of Director Stephane Sednaoui

Music videos

Special Features

  • Walk on the Wild Side - Short film inspired by Lou Reed's song
  • Army of Me - Animation inspired by Bjork's song
  • Acqua Natasa - Short film featuring Natasa Vojnovic
  • Reve Reche - Stephane's first short film attempt
  • Interviews and Commentaries
  • Stephane's presentation at New York University Film School

56 Page Book

Diary of photos, storyboards, sketches and comments

Series 1 Box Set

Shortly after the release of the first three volumes, Palm Pictures released a box set including all three plus a bonus disc featuring more recent content. Because no additional Cunningham videos were included on the disc, the box set also included a poster with images from the Cunningham disc. Those who purchased the three volumes individually could receive the bonus disc and poster by e-mailing Palm Pictures, but Palm Pictures is no longer able to provide the bonus DVD and Poster.

Spike Jonze

  • "Y Control" (uncut version) by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • "Island in the Sun" by Weezer
  • "Invisible Boards" - A short film excerpt from Yeah Right! a Girl Skateboards film (Co-directed with Rick Howard)

Michel Gondry

  • "I Wonder" by The Willowz
  • "Ossamuch!" by Kishu & Co. (original short)

Chris, Spike + Michel

  • Q&A at Virgin

Series 2 Box Set

Palm Pictures released a box set of Volumes 4-7 immediately upon their individual releases. Unlike the first box set, there was no additional content save for the box itself.

References

  1. ^ An Interview With Director Michel Gondry, ComingSoon.net forums
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471024/

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