The Directors Label: When Great Filmmakers Made Music Videos

The Directors Label DVD series, published by Palm Pictures, collected seminal music videos by major filmmakers. Volumes devoted to Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry appeared in 2003; four more followed in 2005, featuring Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Anton Corbijn, and Stéphane Sednaoui. The series highlighted the music video as a space for formal experimentation. Among the works discussed: Scorsese's 'Bad' (1987) for Michael Jackson, Fincher's 'Express Yourself' and 'Vogue' for Madonna, Gondry's 'Around the World' for Daft Punk, Jonze's 'Sabotage' and 'Weapon of Choice', Demme's 'Once in a Lifetime', Corbijn's 'Heart-Shaped Box', and Romanek's 'Hurt' for Johnny Cash, which reduced producer Rick Rubin to tears.