What cultural heritage does the director of the music videos for The xx most identify with?
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Marcus Söderlund Marcus Söderlund is a Swedish music video, commercial and documentary director. He has directed music videos for several Swedish artists such as Yung Lean, The Tough Alliance, jj, Fibes, Oh Fibes!, Lorentz (rapper) and Miike Snow, and has worked with international artists such as The xx, Lissie and Mount Kimbie.
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The xx The xx are an English indie pop band formed in 2005 in Wandsworth, London, and currently consists of Oliver Sim (bass, vocals), Romy Madley Croft (guitar, vocals) and Jamie xx (beats, MPC, record production). They are best known for their distinct and unique minimalistic sound that blends the likes of indie pop, indie electronic, dream pop and electronic rock and the dual vocalist setup of both Croft and Sim.
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List of accolades received by David Lynch David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.
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Kelly Gale Kelly Olivia Gale (born 14 May 1995) is a Swedish-Australian model of Indian and Australian heritage. She's best known for her work for Victoria's Secret, as well as being featured in the music video of Duele el Corazón by Enrique Iglesias. Kelly currently resides in New York City with her boyfriend Johannes Jarl.
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XX: Beautiful Prey XX: Beautiful Prey (ＸＸ　美しき獲物 , XX: Utsukushiki emono ) is a 1996 Japanese film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda. The film stars Kei Marimura, Makiko Watanabe and Ren Ōsugi. The film was licensed in the US by Central Park Media and was released on DVD and VHS under their Asia Pulp Cinema label.
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Andreas Nilsson (film director) Andreas Nilsson is an artist and director based in Malmö, Sweden, best known for his contributions to the music videos of 2 Chainz, The Knife, Fever Ray, MGMT, Goldfrapp, José González, White Lies, Peter, Björn & John, Moby and Bright Eyes.
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Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award The Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award is presented at the MTV Video Music Awards to music performers, recognizing accomplishments in music and film. The first Vanguard awards were presented in 1984 at the inaugural VMAs, and renamed in 1991 in honor of Michael Jackson. The award is also given to music video directors who have created some of the most acclaimed music videos aired by the network. Awarded corporately, it is not given annually, and in certain years it was presented under the name Lifetime Achievement Award. Recent recipients of the accolade include Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Kanye West, Rihanna, and P!nk.
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Russell Mulcahy Russell Mulcahy (born 23 June 1953 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian film director. Mulcahy's work is recognizable by the use of fast cuts, tracking shots and use of glowing lights, and he was one of the most prominent music video directors of the 1980s. He has also worked in television since the early 1990s and as a director on episodes of MTV's "Teen Wolf".
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Marlon Riggs Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was a filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including "Ethnic Notions", "Tongues Untied", "Color Adjustment", and "Black is... Black Ain't." Riggs' aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
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Xinyao Xinyao () is a genre of songs that is unique to Singapore, where the songs are composed and sung by Singaporeans and are often about life within the country. "Xinyao" can be clearly identified by its distinctive style of clean acoustics, with a group of people singing and harmonizing together, usually accompanied solely by the guitar. As the movement grew and became semi-commercialized in the early 1990s, more sophisticated accompaniments with drums, castanets etc. were adopted.
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Kondzilla KondZilla, (stage name of Konrad Cunha Dantas) is a Brazilian music video producer, director and screenwriter. He has directed over 300 music videos.. He started his career by directing the live in Charlie Brown Jr.'s concert film "Música Popular Caiçara".
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Isabel Coixet Isabel Coixet Castillo (] ; born 9 April 1960) is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts and commercials. Her films follow a departure from traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context, ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted (she directs, writes, produces and acts)” filmmaker's status as a “Catalan auteur”.
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The Songs We Sang The Songs We Sang is a 2015 Singaporean documentary directed by Eva Tang. It is about Xinyao, Singaporean folk music that was popular in the 1980s.
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Kim Jae-joong Kim Jae-joong (Hangul: 김재중 ; Hanja: 金在中 ; born January 26, 1986), also known mononymously as Jaejoong, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, director and designer. He is best known as a member of the Korean pop group JYJ, and was one of the original members of boy band TVXQ. Kim was also known by the stage names Hero Jaejoong (in South Korea), Jejung (ジェジュン) (in Japan), and 英雄在中 (영웅재중) (in China). Kim is now using Kim Jae-joong (JYJ) for his activities.
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Kinga Burza Kinga Burza (born September 26, 1980) is a Polish-Australian music video director.
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Kimble Rendall Kimble Rendall is an Australian director, musician and writer mostly known for his Second unit direction of "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003), "The Matrix Revolutions" (2003), "I, Robot" (2004), "Casanova" (2005) and "Ghost Rider" (2007). As a musician Rendall was guitarist, vocalist and co-founder of punk rockers XL Capris and of rock band the Hoodoo Gurus.
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Rich Lee Rich Lee is an American music video and commercial director signed to Native Content in Hollywood, California. He has directed music videos for Lana Del Rey, Maroon 5, Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, Norah Jones, Michael Bublé and The All-American Rejects. Rich Lee started his professional career as a sculptor and fabricator for Broadway shows in New York City. He later moved on to computer graphics and created 3-D previsualizations for big budget Hollywood feature films such as the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, "I Am Legend", "Minority Report" and "Constantine". From the encouragement of feature film directors he moved into directing music videos and commercials. He has directed commercials for brands like Fiat, Hyundai, Honda, Beats by Dre etc.
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MaryAnn Tanedo MaryAnn Tanedo is a Grammy award-winning American film and music video producer, who began her career in the early 1990s. Over the span of her career, Tanedo has produced music videos for a wide range of chart-topping artists including Rihanna, Calvin Harris, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Juanes, Gwen Stefani, Moby, Enrique Iglesias, Faith Hill, Dre, Katy Perry, M.I.A., Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, Maroon 5, Joss Stone, Pussycat Dolls, Eminem, Selena Gomez, and various others. Among the directors she has produced for are Joseph Kahn, Emil Nava, Marcos Siega, Darren Grant, Paul Hunter, the Hughes Brothers and Angela Alvarado.
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Campbell X Campbell X is a filmmaker, based in the United Kingdom. Her work documents black LGBT culture and she is a leading creator of contemporary British queer cinema.
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Sarah Chatfield Sarah Chatfield is an English music video director, based in London and Los Angeles. She is represented by UK production company Colonel Blimp. Her video for Lily Allen's single "Alfie", earned her Best New Director and Best Pop video at the CAD awards. Music videos directed by Chatfield include Lykke Li ("Breaking It Up"), Lenka ("Heart Skips a Beat"), Leah LaBelle ("Sexify"), Kelly Rowland ("Motivation") and The Saturdays ("What About Us" & "What Are You Waiting For?").
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Mike Dibb Mike Dibb (born Leeds, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an award-winning English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in "The Guardian": "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation." Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.
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Ed Steinberg Ed Steinberg is a New York City-based music video producer/director. Steinberg also founded the RockAmerica video distribution network. Steinberg has a colorful reputation. He is perhaps best known for making Madonna's first ever music video in 1982 for the song "Everybody", but has produced and directed more than 90 music videos for other artists such as Gipsy Kings, Cheap Trick, U2 and Yello. Long-form television programs he has produced include music specials for MTV, "Alive From Off Center" for PBS, and "The Palladium, Where Mambo was King" for Bravo. His videos are in collections in the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim. He has served as the musical director for the Havana Film Festival since 2000.