James Herbert (director)
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James Herbert (b. 1938) is an American director most known for directing a series of classic music videos for the band R.E.M.. He has also made over forty short films, including John Five (1992) and Jumbo Aqua (2001), and directed four independent features: Scars (1997), Speedy Boys (1998), Rabbit Pix (2005) and Abandoned House (2007).
Herbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied with the abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still and the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Herbert was R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe's art professor when he studied at the University of Georgia (which is also where Stipe met his future bandmates). Stipe greatly admired Herbert's films, and in addition to having him helm R.E.M.'s earliest music videos, he later cited Herbert as a significant influence on him individually and artistically.[1]
[edit] Music video filmography
- "Wolves, Lower," R.E.M. (1982)
- "Left of Reckoning," R.E.M. (1984)
- "Pretty Persuasion," R.E.M. (1984)
- "Driver 8," R.E.M. (1985; co-directed with Michael Stipe)
- "Life And How To Live It," R.E.M. (1985)
- "Green Grow The Rushes," R.E.M. (1985)
- "Feeling Gravity's Pull," R.E.M. (1985)
- "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", R.E.M. (1986)
- "Turn You Inside-Out," R.E.M. (1989)
- "Low," R.E.M. (1992)
- "Revolution Earth," The B-52's (1992)
