GIMS DVD/Videotape Collection by Genre: Music

In this story taking place in a remote village of South China during the 1930s, Yang Bailao, a poor peasant, has a daughter, Xi'er, who falls in love with a young peasant. But Huang Shiren, a local landlord, attracted by the beauty of Xi'er, tries to force Yang Bailao to give him his daughter in order to settle a debt. The father refuses and is forced to commit suicide, after which his daughter is raped by the landlord. She escapes into a deep forest, where her hair quickly turns grey. Only after liberation can she revenge her father and have a new life.

Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.

Follows the lives and careers of a group of artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.

British songwriter Gretta is adrift in Manhattan after getting dumped by her philandering rock star boyfriend. While playing at an open mic night at a local bar, she is discovered by struggling music producer Dan. Sensing her songwriting potential, Dan pushes Gretta to sign with him and record an ambitious outdoors album all across the city.

Since the earliest days in her childhood, Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute, and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature, she becomes interested in music and starts to play the clarinet very successfully. Since her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.

"The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts." www.imdb.com

Flamenco dance adaptation of García-Lorca's play about a bride who elopes with her lover on her wedding day, presented as though in studio rehearsal. The drama is preceded by a slice-of-life sequence depicting the company's arrival, backstage preparations, and warm-up.

Tells the macabre legend of Duke Bluebeard, who brings his young wife Judith to live in his remote castle.

"The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer." www.imdb.com

An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment.

Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.

The line between fantasy and reality dissolves when during intense rehearsals for a dance production of Carmen the director of the dance company and his young star find themselves living the "Carmen" story of love and treachery.

"This concert contains all available footage from this historic Montreaux [sic] appearance"--Insert.

A collection of his performance in Peking Opera to commemorate his 101st birthday.

College swing: a tune-filled spoof of small-town college.

Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1968, inspired Jann Wenner to launch his enormously successful "Rolling Stone Magazine." It also did much to boost the careers of many of the pop and rock stars who performed in it.

Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul, narrated by Alexander Hacke, offers a whistlestop tour of one city's sonic heritage, journeying through rock, rap, avant-garde and folksong. With the keynote being diversity, this documentary arguably favours breadth over depth; but it's still an eye-opening portrait, capturing several fine musical performances.

" Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda." www.imdb.com

"A documentary on the once-promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and the friendship/rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor." www.imdb.com

"Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor Johnny Castle." www.imdb.com

Portrait of Dylan as a young man during the period when his music is shifting from acoustic to electric, filmed during his 1965 concert tour of England. '65 revisited' contains outtakes from Don't look back, with new commentary.

Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Born on the same day, they share the same talents and the same sense that somewhere there exists another person with whom her life is intertwined.

1956 was Elvis Presley's breakthrough year, and this program takes you back, including his early television performances on the Dorsey Brothers Show and the Ed Sullivan show, and an entire hour of rare footage and performances captured during the amazing year when Elvis Presley became not only a star, but a phenomenon.

Captures Elvis backstage, in rehearsal, and in concert at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in the summer of 1970. Includes 27 songs including That's alright Mama, Little sister, Love me tender, Heartbreak hotel, Blue suede shoes, All shook up, Suspicious minds, and Can't help falling in love with you.

A drama of seedy music hall life centering on Archie Rice, an egotistical, third-rate British music hall performer whose career and personal life are in a down-hill spiral.

Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.

Documents how former drug-trafficker Anderson Sa, and Jose Junior's Grupo Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug industry and police oppression. The Grupo Cultural AfroReggae organization uses music as an instrument of change, to offer an alternative to the drug lords as role models for the children of the favela, and Sa is the lead vocalist for their band, AfroReggae.

A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band, The Flaming Lips.

Five young friends are drawn together by music. Their dreams of fame and fortune take them from amateur nights in ghetto clubs to the pinnacle of show business success and personal tragedy. When the vocal group The Five Heartbeats get to the top of music world they learn the hard reality of the music industry.

Friedmann Bach was the favorite son of a famous father. Burdened however by the name "Bach", he succeeded only in the beginning to fulfill the public's expectations of him as a composer. And so it happens that, driven by need, worry and painful love, he claims one of his father's pieces as his own! When his swindle is discovered, he drops his application as candidate for the position of music director in Braunschweig. He joins a drama troupe and eventually ends up completely broke in Potsdam.

A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, including a performance at Madison Square Garden and a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where violence broke out between fans and Hell's Angels who were providing security. Includes performances by Ike and Tina Turner, the Jefferson Airplane and the Flying Burrito Brothers. This special version also contains never-before-seen performances from the Madison Square Garden show, audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, excerpts from KSAN Radio's Altamont wrap-up, an Altamont stills gallery featuring the work of photographers Bill Owens and Beth Sunflower, original and re-release theatrical trailers, plus trailers for Maysles films Grey gardens and Salesman, filmographies for Maysles Films and Charlotte Zwerin, and a restoration demonstration.

"Using never-before-seen footage, photos and audio of Williams and featuring interviews with many friends and family who have never spoken on-camera before, Honky tonk blues tells the story of Hank Williams' rise and fall in full, vivid detail"--Container.

A Vancouver-based punk rock band gets back together to do a benefit concert for a friend. After the benefit, the band decides to go out on the road for a reunion tour. Lies, deceit and cheating are all just part of the lifestyle.

A naive, small-town barber gets in way over his head when he finds a frozen human body, and meets a screwball "refugee from a heavy-metal road crew," who falsely identifies the body as her brother, and begs him to drive her and the coffin to New Orleans.

Film is based on a vacation in Barcelona taken by John Lennon of the Beatles and their manager, Brian Epstein in 1963. They were there to relax after a series of concerts, the complex friendship between the two men was tested by an unspoken tension, and never again returned to its unique intimacy.

"In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story." www.imdb.com

A series of vignettes illustrates the extremes of wealth and poverty, the exploitation, and the passions that led to the Cuban Revolution.

Six characters recreate different stages in Bob Dylan's career, from Greenwich Village folk singer to electric guitar trailblazer to born-again preacher.

" A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961." www.imdb.com

Classical violinist Itzhak Perlman takes a break from the concert hall to learn to play klezmer music and explore its vitality on a journey from New York's Lower East Side to the Jewish Festival in Krakow, Poland. Several other musicians and bands instruct him and perform.

An interactive presentation of 23 separate guitar performances in Peru and Paris by Echecopar, some with accompaniment. Also includes an interview segment (24 min.), a moving photo gallery (5 min.), "Detrás de cámaras" short (13 min.), and a promotional clip (2 min.). Total running time for all segments is ca. 116 minutes.

A Jewish cantor's son breaks with his family to become a popular music singer.

"The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer." www.imdb.com

The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

Asa Yoelson, a brash vaudeville performer, becomes Al Jolson, the great entertainer of the Twenties, but success in show business brings marital difficulties. All songs in this biography, including such favorites as "Swanee", "April showers", and "Mammy", use Jolson's own voice.

Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.

Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word meaning variously: crazy life, life in turmoil, life disintegrating, life out of balance (the subtitle for this film), and a state of life that calls for another way of life. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola, this creation of director Godfrey Reggio, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer Philip Glass seems to flash by your eyes but lingers in your mind.

A musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse.

Depicts the 'last days' at a disco palace, where drugs, sex and weirdness ran rampant. Icy Charlotte and demure Alice toil by day as publishing house assistants and by night the two look for romance and entertainment at a premier disco club. But, as the disco is closed, they wonder if disco can ever really be dead?

The Band, one of rock's superstar groups, decided to call it quits after sixteen grueling years on the road. The group held this farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland, the site of their first performance. The performance is interspersed with interview footage.

Two neighbors -- Paula, a single woman with two children, and Paul, a conservative bureaucrat stuck in a loveless marriage -- begin to fall in love. The free-spirited Paula tries to liberate Paul from his complacent life, but it's not until tragedy and heartaches beset them both that he begins to fully appreciate her love.

Although it can be difficult to detect the influences in the work of Leonard Cohen, he was informed by a far-reaching list of musicians, writers, poets and philosophies. In Leonard Cohen's Lonesome Heroes, the scope and detail of his artistic inspirations are put under the microscope. Cohen's first love was poetry and in the works of fellow Canadian Irving Layton, and the Spanish bard Federico Garcia Lorca, he found the words that moved him to create his own verse.

Guitar wizard, inventor, Les Paul tell his own rags-to-riches story. Includes interviews with B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Jeff Beck, Merle Haggard, Steve Miller and many more.

Beginning in 1936, the film traces the lives of four families across three continents and five decades through the turbulent years following World War II up to the '80s highlighting the music and dance that is central to the lives of all the characters.

The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.

Set in 1914 London, the film stars Chaplin as an aging music hall comic who's convinced he can no longer move people to laughter. But he gets a final opportunity to shine when he saves a young, equally desperate ballet dancer from suicide, then guides her to triumph on the stage.

Follows the life and the career of Louis Prima, with never-before-released interviews, performances by Prima (in part with Keely Smith), and vintage clips of the music scene in New Orleans, New York and Las Vegas.

"A modern take on composer Manuel de Falla's gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. Set in a dusty Andalusian village, El amor brujo (Love the Magician) is a seductive melodrama of a man whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another."--Container.

Robert Wilson's pure and highly stylized 2003 production enhances the timeless beauty of Puccini's moving Japanese tragedy. Cheryl Barker and Martin Thompson lead the cast along with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

An intensely intimate look at one of the biggest hard rock/heavy metal bands of all time, with over 90 million albums sold. Takes you inside the studio, the counseling sessions the band went through together and the difficult process of finding a new band member.

A definitive look at the man and his music, interweaving rare interviews with Miles and insights and memories of his family, friends, and many of the great musicians who played with him during his long career.

Discusses Miles Davis' music of the late 1960s-early 1970s, with commentary from musicians Chick Corea, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell and others; also includes Davis's complete Aug. 29, 1970 performance at the Isle of Wight.

"A musical road trip, journeying deep into the heart of Brazil. Covering more than 4000 km, with stopovers in Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, director Mika Kaurismäki offers unparalleled access to the Brazilian people and their culture ... Showcases the diversity and richness of Brazilian music, far beyond Samba and Bossa Nova. Local musicians, singers and dancers perform a wide variety of musical styles, illustrating the progression of Brazilian music, from the roots of samba to modern rap and funk" Container.

" A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as "I'll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", and "When a Man Loves a Woman"." www.imdb.com

" Alejandro Tazo, a 30-something Chilean, arrives at Nashville on a Greyhound bus from the West Coast. He has been mugged on board? Why is he here? How did he get here? What will he do in Music City?" www.imdb.com

" Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed." www.imdb.com

A musician meets and falls in love with a lounge singer at the end of World War II. The couple struggles to balance their passions for music and each other under the pressures of show biz.

" A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star." www.imdb.com

Featuring a very rare 1963 performance of Ray Charles in Sao Paulo, Brazil, recorded one day before his 33rd birthday, the concert material showcased on this disc is a remarkable find. Beyond its historical significance, the video provides enormous pleasure: we get to see and hear Ray, the Genius (O-Genio means "The Genius" in Portuguese), at his absolute best, exactly as it was shown then, complete with Brazilian commercials.

A nameless busker, singing his heart out on the streets of Dublin meets a nameless young woman who speaks English with an accent, a street vendor. His girlfriend has left him, so he works in his father's vacuum repair shop and writes songs for her. She cleans houses, and plays the demo piano in a shop at lunchtime. The singer comes to hear her, and is so impressed that he immediately asks if she wants to collaborate -- right then -- on one of his tunes. They slowly piece the song together, and magic begins. This is a love story about a creative partnership, and the deeper longing for communication that underlies any worthwhile artistic effort.

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, July 15, 1977; interviews with Norman Granz and Niels Pederson filmed in New York at the Village Voice, June 17, 2004.

When two American jazz musicians in Paris meet two young American teachers, it's instant electricity. The foursome embarks on a whirlwind romance through the streets, cafes, clubs and landmarks of Paris.

Documentary on the popular music form of Paris developed when the musette, or bagpipe, of the late-19th-century migrants from the Auvergne--which gave its name to the cabaret dancing known as "bal musette"--was combined with the accordion music of Italian immigrants on the eve of World War I; traces the history of musette in the context of social, economic and political changes in Paris, particularly among the working-class residents, through and after World War II. Combines current interviews and scenes of modern Paris with archival pictures and film, material from musical archives, classic film clips, and historical re-enactments.

Follow a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation, on the run and looking for a place to hide. He ends up hiding out with a reclusive rock superstar. It all leads up to a shocking final performance for the rock star.

"Folk Icons: Pete Seeger is a beautifully filmed 105-minute concert showcasing one of the most provocative figures in music history. In 1963 Pete Seeger, blacklisted and barred from American television, fled the persecution of his homeland and embarked on a 10-month world tour. One of his first stops was Australia where he was welcomed with open arms and sold-out performances. This DVD not only presents a full concert filmed in Melbourne but also includes 55 minutes of bonus footage from various other Australian television appearances. Witness how one man, armed only with a banjo, a guitar and the power of song, captures the hearts and minds of a nation." www.amazon.com

August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride and struggle that symbolizes their survival as a family. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past.

"A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone." www.imdb.com

"Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition." (www.imdb.com)

By day, Mark Hunter is a painfully shy kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he's Happy Harry Hardon, the cynical, uncensored DJ of his own pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his monologues on sex, love, society and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down.

"A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s." www.imdb.com

" The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s." www.imdb.com

"A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina." www.imdb.com

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Inge meets and falls in love with an air force officer, Hebert Koch, who is later sent into battle. She loses contact with him but is able to be reunited when she hears a song requested for him during the Wunschkonzert program, a popular German radio show during World War 2 in which songs requested by and for soldiers were performed.

A performed opera. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is 'in' and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust and the pursuit of pleasure, where cash is king and poverty is punishable by death.

An intimate, completely fresh portrayal of inner city youth who have created art where before there was none. Surrounded by drug addiction, gangs and impoverishment, they have developed a unique style of dance that evolves on a daily basis.

A pair of down-and-out Hollywood musicians find themselves on a slow boat to Rio de Janeiro where they meet a beautiful woman whose sinister guardian is trying to marry her off to a swindler.

Vince Lombardi High School is the wildest, most rockin' high school around! That is, until an ice queen takes over as principal and tries to turn the school into a totalitarian state. Led by Riff Randall and with the help of the Ramones, the students battle the principal's iron-fisted rule and take their battle to an explosive conclusion.

Scenes from the lives of Russian rock musicians of the 1980's are interspersed with concert performances.

" Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders." www.imdb.com

The story of a Brooklyn store clerk who is a Saturday night disco king; he begins to question the narrowness of his perspective when he meets a girl who is shedding her origins for a more sophisticated lifestyle.

A music-filled, off-beat contemporary comedy that takes an unforgettable look at black college life.

When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.

" Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly." www.imdb.com

20 music videos, featuring songs written and performed in honor of Che Guevara combined with new and archival footage and still photographs. The videos are taken from two earlier releases, Canto épico a la ternura (1995) and Canto épico a la ternura II (1997), and are reissued in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Guevara's death in 1967.

Sun Ra, space-age prophet, lands his spaceship, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. Like Ra himself, Space is the Place is one of a kind, a mythopoetic manifesto made by people who believed in Ra's mystical message as much as they dug the raw splendor of his Afro-psychedelica.

Set in Harlem in 1958, this musical tells the story of three sisters struggling to find stardom as a singing group. But they learn that wishing on a star is one thing, and that being the star can be a one-way ticket to self-destruction.

A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and breakdancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves.

A documentary that examines the unusual performance techniques and beliefs of Sun Ra.

Set in prewar Nazi Germany, the story of a group of German youths obsessed with American jazz, who must come to grips with the rise of fascism. Two friends must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.

A wide-ranging documentary that aims to put Monk's status into context and perspective. It blends the history of Monk's early career in Harlem with archival black-and-white footage of the pianist performing his own compositions for Norwegian and French TV.

In Nashville, Tennessee, four musical hopefuls become friends and begin a rocky ride to what they hope will be stardom.

A biographical film about the Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Tijuca, a neighborhood in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, until his death at age 55. Maia was known for his explosive temper and his transformation of Brazilian music with doses of funk and soul.

A jealous world-famous symphony conductor entertains elaborate thoughts of vengeance over his wife's supposed infidelities, set to three separate orchestral works.

It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it's the job of an investigative reporter to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance!

A stage presentation by Camila Morgado and Ricardo Blat is interwoven with interviews, musical performances, and existing audio and video footage to tell the story of Vinícius de Moraes, one of Brazil's most celebrated composers and poets.

" A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins." www.imdb.com

Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, their innocence lost, and who currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. These children attend a school where they can momentarily forget the brutal realities of their lives, as they participate in music, song and dance. When they are invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival in their nation's capitol, their historic journey is also an opportunity to regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first time.

The turbulent relationship of Ike and Tina Turner eventually forces Tina to leave and find the courage to believe in herself.

"These exuberant videos bring to life the stories of the most famous African Americans to make it to Paris in the early 20th century, what it did for them--and what they did for France"--Container. Includes Josephine Baker: a most extraordinary life (13 min.) -- Sidney Bechet: the wizard of jazz (15 min.) -- Black writers across the Atlantic (12 min.).

" A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential." www.imdb.com

A look at the lives and thoughts of some young people in Havana in the 1990's as seen through the making of a film, "The story of Yuliet Ortega & Fabiola Quiroz, as filmed by Carlos Marcovich." Cinematographer Carlos Marcovich first met Yuliet Ortega, a young prostitute from Havana, when he shot a music video starring model Fabiola Quiroz. When he realized that the two women had not seen their respective fathers for many years, he made this documentary shot primarily in Havana over 1995-97.

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers. www.imdb.com

"The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival." www.imdb.com

Collection offers some of the director's best music videos including U2's One, Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box and Metallica's Hero of the Day. Also includes artist interviews, commercial work, and other short films.

London-based Chris Cunningham has created some of the most provocative and visually disturbing subject matter in the history of the music video or film. His unnerving, award-winning works have included Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy (an elderly woman is chased through an English council housing complex by pint-sized Richard James mutants); Bjork's All is Full of Love (Two robots fall in love as one creates the other piece by piece); and Portishead's Only You (Beth Gibbons and a young lad buoy eerily in a shaded alleyway, her movements as bewitching as her singing). This is a collection of music videos, short films, video installations, and commercials.

Videos in this collection include Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity, UNKLE's Rabbit in Your Headlights, Radiohead's Karma Police, and Blur's The Universal. DVD also includes commercials, artist interviews, and excerpts from the films Sexy Beast and Birth.

Includes the director's music videos for the bands Jay-Z, Linkin park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Audioslave, No Doubt, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Fiona Apple, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Weezer, Eels, Snic Youth, Madonna, R.E.M., G. Love & Special Sauce, David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Keith Richards, En Vogue and kd lang, as well as interviews, commentaries and a documentary: Making of 99 problems.

French-born Michel Gondry is known for his visually groundbreaking imagery and re-interpretations of reality. A former drummer, his first collaboration with Björk for "Human Behaviour" (featuring Bjork as a hunter who eventually winds up inside a bear's stomach), helped revive what was then a dwindling music video industry, and went on to win nearly every music video award. A collection of music videos, short films, documentaries and stories.

Spike Jonze is most widely known as the director of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. However, Jonze also remains a pioneer in the world of music videos and for many years has been best known as an award-winning music video, short film and commercial director.

Stephane Sednaoui's best videos are brought together in one collection. Included are Alanis Morissette's Ironic, Scar Tissue by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and U2's Mysterious Ways. DVD also has artist interviews, commentaries and other short films.

Spike Jonze: A collection of music videos, short films, and documentaries by director Spike Jonze.