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*About the series*
In the era when MTV reached full cultural domination, music videos served as petri dishes for experimentation, allowing up-and-coming auteurs to hone their boundary-pushing styles before unleashing them on the big screen. Directors who cut their teeth finding a cinematic language for hip-hop, indie, and pop acts went on to envision some of the freshest, most thrilling and even avant-garde movies released around the turn of the century. Kinetic, audacious, and hyperstylized, these Y2K-era touchstones from filmmakers like David Fincher (SE7EN), Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH), Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), and Hype Williams (BELLY) rewired the possibilities of visual storytelling.
Programmed by Sean Fennessey
*Featuring*
• GUNCRAZY (Tamra Davis, 1992)
• CB4 (Tamra Davis, 1993)*
• SE7EN (David Fincher, 1995)
• BELLY (Hype Williams, 1998)
• THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS (Antoine Fuqua, 1998)
• BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze, 1999)*
• THE CELL (Tarsem Singh, 2000)
• SEXY BEAST (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)
• CQ (Roman Coppola, 2001)
• HUMAN NATURE (Michel Gondry, 2001)
• ADAPTATION. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
• ONE HOUR PHOTO (Mark Romanek, 2002)
• ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, 2004)*
• THUMBSUCKER (Mike Mills, 2005)*
• ATL (Chris Robinson, 2006)
• THE RUNAWAYS (Floria Sigismondi, 2010)
*Indicates programming available only in the U.S.
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