S P I K E J O N Z E
A U T E U R R E S E A R C H

S P I K E J O N Z E
• Spike Jonze was born on 22nd
October 1969
• Studied at the San Francisco Art
Intitute
• Started out as a Skate
photographer
• Became active in commercials
and music videos in 1989
• Known for feature films, Being
John Malkovich, Where The Wild
Things Are and Her.

W H A T M A K E S J O N Z E A N
A U T E U R ?
• Jonze works with certain people on a regular basis on
different projects.
• He mostly directs off-beat videos which are elaborate
in their visual storytelling and often combine different
mediums to produce the ultimate end result.

T R A D E M A R K S
• Cinematography - Lance Acord
• Writer - Charlie Kaufman
• Actor - Chris Cooper

A R C A D E F I R E - A F T E R L I F E ( L I V E A T
Y O U T U B E M U S I C A W A R D S )
• Jonze created this music video live during the YouTube
Music Awards. Though the concept itself is big, a
music video created live on a web-streamed event. The
video itself, a dance routine. Is almost equal in terms of
conceptuality.
• Link: https://youtu.be/tBTTd0gfkn0

D A F T P U N K - D A F U N K
• One of Jonze's breakout music videos, Da Funk is about
a dog with human like features, who's trying to fit in. The
music video is structured like a film, the opening titles
follow a conventional title sequence and the 'title' for the
video is 'Big City Nights' which is more relatable towards
the story of the video and not the song, which is an
instrumental Daft Punk track. It combines puppetry and
live action, which follows Spike Jonze's signature style.
• Link: https://youtu.be/mmi60Bd4jSs