Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
MoMA presents a mid-career retrospective of the unstoppable Mr Jonze.
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Über-prestigious mega-gallery MoMA are putting on a pre-emptive retrospective of Spike Jonze, celebrating his work as a director, producer, cinematographor, writer, actor, choreographer and all-round maker of insanely good things.
The wryly titled exhibition, Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years, which runs from October 8-18, will pay homage to Jonze's arsenal of work with screenings of his mind-bending movies (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) music videos (for the likes of Bjork, Fatboy Slim, Weezer and Beastie Boys) commercials and pioneering skate videos like 1991's legendary Video Days for Blind.
If that's not a good enough reason for you New Yorkers to gloat, PopRally will be hosting An Evening of Skate Videos on October 15, presented by Patrick O'Dell with 'special guest' Mr Jonze. So get down to The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1 and The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby where "a panel of significant skateboarders and filmmakers, including Jonze himself, will discuss their work."
The exhibition will lead up to the October 16 release of Where the Wild Things Are - which has had us foaming at the mouth for a good while now and, due for release in the States a good two months before the UK, is almost a good enough reason to emigrate. Almost.
Check out the website for a full list of screenings.
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Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years (text) by Andrea Kurland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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