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Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. “It’s such a beautiful and romantic place,” offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. “The perfect setting for our story!” The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand. “I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,” said Jonze of working with Le-Tan’s characters. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze’s recent shorts include robot love story I’m Here and an inspired G.I. Joe-starring video for The Beastie Boys. “A short is like a sketch,” he says. “You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.

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Can what is playing you make it to level 2?”

~Nick Land. “Meltdown.” In: Fanged Noumena.

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When you release one of the most talked about albums in recent years its only right that you follow up the hype with a music video that features an post apocalyptic inspired chopped Maybach any Mad Max aficionado would be proud to own. Watch the Throne finally gets a proper video treatment under the direction of Spike Jonze. If you are easily upset by the over extravagant turn away now as the video serves as one big stunt figuratively and literally, well played.

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“Scenes from the Suburbs,” the short film directed by Spike Jonze in collaboration with the Arcade Fire, is now available to be streamed in its entirety online! The 30 minute piece is also being re-released with the Arcade Fire album “The Suburbs” as part of deluxe reissue of the album. You can grab the reissue on Merge Records from August 2.  You can watch “Scenes from the Suburbs” here and check out the trailer below.  Spike Jonze is a dream boat, Arcade Fire are divine and the result is perfect.

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How many big names can you get in one video? Opening Ceremony presents Los Angeles street dancer Lil’ Buck as he re-interprets “The Dying Swan” from Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals accompanied by award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma and then casually filmed by world renowned director Spike Jonze. Enjoy.

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‘Mourir Auprès de Toi’ is a short film created by Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn, hand made with love by Olympia Le-Tan. Co-director Simon Cahnhas compiled a nice wee  “making of” video that you can view below. Enjoy!

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Speculation has been confirmed over the collaboration between Canadian musicians, Arcade Fire, and legendary film maker, Spike Jonze, with the recent release of their latest video for “The Suburbs”. Serving as the title track for their newly celebrated album, the video is shot in Austin, Texas, and the plot revolves around the complication of teenage friendship and the nature of growing apart.

Watch Arcade Fire ‘The Suburbs’ by Spike Jonza below.

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Spike Jonze’s spokes person has just revealed that Spike Jonze will be spending some time in Austin to create a short film with indie rock band sensation, Arcade Fire. With the release of Arcade Fire’s new album coming out later this year, we can only assume that this means an inside eye of development and procedure focusing on the band’s inside dealings and happenings…

Stay tuned for confirmation of the short film.

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Amongst us here at SLAMXHYPE anyway, “I’m Here” by Spike Jonze has been one of the most talked about and anticipated films of late, Written and Directed by Jonze the robot love story is finally available online for us to see. Check parts 1, 2 and 3 out below.

Thanks to HB for the heads up.

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“I’m here” the short promo film created by director Spike Jonze for Absolut Vodka has generated a lot of coverage and discussion  since it was announced a couple of months ago, even getting its own window display in Colette.  Well, now you can actually watch it for yourself as Absolut are streaming it live online.

Watch it  here.

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Here is a look at part two of the VBS.tv feature of Spike Jonze Spends Saturday With… Opening Ceremony (Part 1 here.)
A very insightful look at what is possibly one of the best fashion retailers (and label) at present. The second part sees again great conversational interviews with the founders Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, in this episode about their work with Ace Hotel.

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