10 Greatest Music Videos By Spike Jonze

9. Sean Lennon - Home

This one came out in 1998, and by that time, Spike Jonze was already well-established in the field, having made so many different kinds of music videos up to this point. So, it's cool to see him return to his lo-fi roots here. You can tell from the beginning that "Home" does not have much of a budget. It looks to be shot with a videocamera and the overall production value is incredibly stripped down. The only thing that happens in this video, story-wise, is that Sean Lennon walks down a street to buy a couple of goldfish. That's it. With that concept, Jonze adds so many neat little visual tricks to the proceedings, turning this into a quirky gem of a video. If "Feel the Pain" is a good introduction to his playful side, "Home" helps to really show off what the man can do with a camera. We start off by walking with Sean Lennon down the street, feeling every step and we soon get bombarded with all these wacky, disorienting transitions. Once the chorus kicks in, Sean Lennon starts bending himself backwards, showcasing his incredible limbo-ing skills. How exactly is he doing this? I'm not entirely sure, and quite frankly, it's more fun if I never find out. The video continues down that path and it would start to feel gimmicky if it didn't seem so effortless. Overall, "Home" is a strange little video and it never gets boring no matter how often you watch it.
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Ken writes movie reviews on his blog, kenoncinema.blogspot.com. He currently resides in New York City. Twitter: @keng324