Jonas Åkerlund

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Jonas Åkerlund (2012)

Hans Uno Jonas Åkerlund (born November 10, 1965 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish music video and film director .

Life

Åkerlund was the drummer for the Swedish metal band Bathory from 1983 to 1984 . At first he mainly shot music videos for Swedish bands. His international breakthrough came with the scandalous video Smack My Bitch Up for the British band The Prodigy in 1997.

In 2002 his first feature film, Spun, was released . He has also directed commercials for major brands, including Hugo Boss , Sony , Dell , Volkswagen , Coca-Cola , Ikea and Adidas .

Today his customers include numerous well-known musicians, including U2 , Metallica , Madonna , Lady Gaga , Beyoncé , Pink , The Rolling Stones , Paul McCartney , Robbie Williams , Coldplay , Ozzy Osbourne , Queens of the Stone Age and Pussy Riot .

In 2009, Åkerlund also shot the video for the Rammstein group's song Pussy with lots of quick cuts and digital effects so it looks like the musicians are having real sex. The video was censored, the video can only be seen uncensored on erotic sites and various video portals on the Internet. Åkerlund shot a total of four videos for the Berlin band: In addition to Pussy , it was man against man in 2007 , I hurt you in 2009 and Mein Land in 2011 .

In March 2017, Åkerlund released the concert film Rammstein: Paris together with the musicians . This film, whose raw material was produced during two concerts and a dress rehearsal for the band in March 2012 in the then Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy , is also characterized by fast, hard cuts and bizarre effects. On October 26, 2017, his film won the UK Music Video Award 2017 in the Best live concert category in the Roundhouse in the London borough of Camden . This honors particularly creative, innovative or technically high-quality music film and music video productions.

He has also received numerous awards for a few other music videos and concert films by various artists, including several Grammy Awards .

In 2018 he filmed the events in the Norwegian black metal scene with Lords of Chaos around the bands Mayhem and Burzum and around the murder of Mayhem guitarist Euronymous in the 1990s.

style

Åkerlund explains that some of his music videos (including “Smack My Bitch Up”) contain violent depictions of violence: “For me, it's always about expressing something as strongly as possible, and when I want to show violence, I do it as violently as I can . "

Discography

  • 1984: Sacrifice and The Return of the Darkness and Evil on Scandinavian Metal Attack

Videos

Publishing year Song title Artist
1988 Bewitched Candlemass
1993 Fingertips Roxette
1994 Run to you Roxette
1995 A la ronde Sinclair
1995 Vulnerable Roxette
1995 Pay for Me Whale
1996 June Afternoon Roxette
1997 I want you to know Per Gessle
1997 Spending My Time Roxette
1997 James Bond Theme Moby
1997 Smack My Bitch Up The Prodigy
1998 Ray of Light Madonna
1998 My Favorite Game The cardigans
1998 Turn the page Metallica
1999 Whiskey in the Jar Metallica
1999 Wish I Could Fly Roxette
1999 Canned heat Jamiroquai
1999 Anyone Roxette
1999 Corruption Iggy Pop
2000 The Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins
2000 Music Madonna
2000 Porcelain (version 1) Moby
2000 Try, try, try The Smashing Pumpkins
2000 Beautiful Day (Version 1: Airport) U2
2000 Black Jesus Everlast
2000 Still (Version 2: White Hair) Macy Gray
2001 Gets me through Ozzy Osbourne
2001 Walk On (Version 2) U2
2001 The Center of the Heart (Is a Suburb to the Brain) Roxette
2002 A thing about you Roxette
2002 Lonely Road Paul McCartney
2002 Me Julie Ali G and Shaggy
2002 If I Could Fall in Love Lenny Kravitz
2002 Beautiful Christina Aguilera
2002 Beautiful Day (Version 2: Eze) U2
2003 American Life Madonna
2003 Come Undone Robbie Williams
2003 Good boys Blondie
2003 Fuel for Hatred Satyricon
2003 True Nature Jane's Addiction
2004 I miss you Blink-182
2004 Sexed Up Robbie Williams
2005 head to head Rammstein
2006 Jump Madonna
2006 Country girl Primal Scream
2006 One wish Roxette
2007 Wake up call Maroon 5
2007 Good god Anouk
2008 Undead Hollywood Undead
2008 No.5 Hollywood Undead
2009 When Love Takes Over David Guetta (feat. Kelly Rowland )
2009 Sober P nk
2009 Paparazzi Lady Gaga
2009 We are golden Mika
2009 Pussy Rammstein
2009 I hurt you Rammstein
2009 Celebration Madonna
2010 Telephone Lady Gaga ( feat.Beyoncé )
2010 Let Me Hear You Scream Ozzy Osbourne
2010 Who's That Chick (Day & Night Version) Rihanna
2011 Hold It Against Me Britney Spears
2011 Moves Like Jagger Maroon 5
2011 my country Rammstein
2011 Girl panic Duran Duran
2012 Doom & Gloom The Rolling Stones
2014 Magic Coldplay
2014 Dangerous David Guetta
2015 Ghosttown Madonna
2015 Bitch I'm Madonna Madonna (feat. Nicki Minaj )
2016 New Romantics Taylor Swift
2016 Óveður Sigur Rós
2016 ManUNkind Metallica
2017 John Wayne Lady Gaga
2017 Praying Kesha

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonas Åkerlund . The Swedish Film Database , accessed July 11, 2011.
  2. ^ A b Jonas Hermann: Jonas Åkerlund: The provocateur . Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , February 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ jonasakerlund.com: music videos
  4. ↑ Scandal video: Rammstein: No sex during the "pussy" shoot . bz-berlin.de , October 15, 2009, accessed October 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ focus.de: Rammstein: Paris with Brute Force , accessed on October 24, 2017
  6. ↑ UK Music Video Awards: winners ( memento of October 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 28, 2017
  7. ↑ jonasakerlund.com: Bio
  8. ↑ welt.de: Lords of Chaos by Jonas Åkerlund from February 23, 2019
  9. ↑ "RAMMSTEIN: PARIS" IN THE CINEMA - TICKET SALE STARTS TODAY! January 20, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Åkerlund, Jonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Åkerlund, Hans Uno Jonas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish music video and film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm