The Work of Mark Romanek

Video: The Perfect Drug
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Director: Mark Romanek

A 10-Year Tangent

Romanek’s music videos met great success and Romanek soon found himself on a 10-year tangent from his dream of becoming a feature filmmaker. This tangent also just happened to coincide with the real explosion of MTV in the early and mid-90s.

“It was a time when MTV was a vital, interesting area, when it was still showing videos and when the directors doing them included some of the best directors in the world, like David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer and Spike Jonze,” says Romanek. “I mean these were really great filmmakers who happened to be making music videos. So it was very inspiring and exciting.”

Romanek brings artistic and cinematic sensibility to his music videos, and is well recognized for his work for Nine Inch Nails, Madonna, David Bowie, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash and others.

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