Music Video Auteurs

The definition of an Autuer is a director having full control over a music video, this means the artist will just be told what to do. A few examples of Autuer directors are Spike Jonze, David Fincher, Chris Milk and Eric Wareheim. These directors sometimes include themselves in the video in some way this could be through a picture on the wall or to being an extra in the background

Spike Jonze: 


Spike Jonze has directed quite a few music videos and is maybe best known for his work on music videos, he directered music videos such as Fatboy Slim: Praise and Weapon of Choice, Tenacious D: Wonderboy and Daft Punk: Da Funk to name a few. He was the director for movies such as Her, Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich as well as the Jackass movies.
His personal style throughout these video is that they have an off beat visual storytelling this is done through either live action or animation. He frequently casts and collaborates with Lance Acord (cinematographer), Charlie Kaufman (writer), Chris Cooper (actor) and Catherine Keener.