1. Malik Sayeed (Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor")
2. Hype Williams (Missy Elliot's "Hot Boys")
3. Little X (Sean Paul's "Gimme The Light")
4. Marc Romenek (Janet Jackson's "Got Till It's Gone")
5. Francis Lawrence (Lauryn Hill/Bob Marley's "Turn Your Lights Down Low")
6. Sanji (Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything")
7. Nginga Stewart (Eve's "Satisfaction")
8. Diane Martel (LeToya William's "Fallen Star")
9. Martin Weiss (Brandy's "You Don't Love Me" Remix)
10. Chris Robinson (Monica's "So Gone")

I really have no clue who directs videos.

minneapolisgenius said:

Try too! The cinematography in a lot of them are phenomenal.

Michel Gondry for all his work with Bjork

Jean Baptiste-Mondino for Prince "I Wish U Heaven" & Jill Jones "Mia Bocca" Bjork "Violently Happy"

Much love Pochacco

Chris Cunningham - no contest!!

Director of (amongst others)

Bjork - All is full of love
Madonna - Frozen
Leftfield - Futureshock
Squarepusher - Come on my Selector
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker

These 6 videos rate amongst the best music videos of recent years. Check them out! (Well, maybe not Madonna's - but included as is the probably the best known and its certainly stylish. Interestingly, Madonna burst in to tears when Chris showed her the first cut - she thought she was being presented too dark but, in the end, she trusted his judgement.)
[This message was edited Wed May 14 7:54:37 PDT 2003 by Mindflux]

Chris Cunningham is good, but anyone can program a computer to do all of the work. I'm referring more to the actual cinematography of videos as far as lighting, backgrounds, and then speical f/x.

Eh?

His videos are like 10% effects, the rest is all the attributes you love!

Mindflux said:

Okay, is that the Bjork video where she turns into a polar bear or something? If not, I've got him confused with another one. Malik is just phenomnal with all of the above. That's probably why Spike Lee and Hype Williams have enlisted his services.

Malik Sayeed is the same dude who directed Prince's "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold". Here's my list:

1.Hype Williams(When he used to direct No Scrups and Missy's videos but now he's all washed out)

2.Malik Sayeed-I love the dark/edgy yet sext atmosphere.

3.Sanji is the same one who directed Mary J's "No More Drama".

4.Who directed Lauryn Hill's "Doo Woop(That Thang)?? he did a good jop.

5.Chris Robinson-I love "A Woman's Worth"

6.Diane Martel is the same chic who directed Eve's "Who's that girl?" and Mariah's "Breakdown"

Thats all I could think of right now!!!1

Hehe - no! It's the one where she is a robot (NOT cgi either!) and is basically involved in a psuedo-lesbian scene with another bot that looks exactly like her!!! Chris said that he read too many porn mags as a teenager.

Are you really not familiar with the APphex/Squarepusher vids?? Somehow, get them - they are the perfect marriage of music and video, I mean, the actions and events in the video perfectly mirror what is happening with the music (and with Squarepushers frenetic fills that's no mean feat!)

I love Aphex Twin videos.

Harlepolis said:

BigTV! directed Lauryn's "Doo Wap" (which is a very good video, too.)

okaypimpn said:

HMmmm I'm not sure I heard of him, did he directed another well-known videos?

He did and I'm trying to think of it. Give me a minute.

Big TV! is actually a British duo by the names of Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom. They've been around for a minute and directed such videos as Soul II Soul's "Jazzie's Groove," Seal's "Crazy," and George Michal and Mary J. Blige's "As."