Spike Jonze

By Saeed Moulai

Fact File• Full Name: Adam Spiegel, October 22, 1969 (age 46), Rockville,

Maryland, U.S. • Occupation: Film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor • Years active: 1989–present • Notable Work: "Only One" Kanye West feat. Paul McCartney,

"Dope" Lady Gaga, "Da Funk" Daft Punk, "Praise You" Fatboy Slim

• Spike Jonze is an American director of music videos.

• He has worked with big name artists such as Bjork and Biggie Smalls as well as smaller niche artists.

• He is well respected because he is renowned for making influential and alternative videos

• He is known to work with the artist to bring out their true emotion as well as capturing the artists own illustration

• He came from a qualified background and attended San Francisco Art Institution

Information• He started his career by making music videos, his

first notable music video was Hush by Wax and that was in 1992

• After reaching fame by working with famous stars in music videos Jonze moved on to produce short films and then direct films, nowadays in 2016 he is renowned for both his music video and film directing

• Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Weezer, the Beastie Boys, Björk and Kanye West

• He started his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002)

Auteur Theory

• Jonze is an auteur theorist • He uses a personal factor in an artistic creation

as a standard of reference and a feature that continues throughout directors work

• Jonze’s personal factor is making content that is off-beat in its story telling. Particularly in their mix of live action, puppetry and animation. He often combines different mediums.