Jonas Åkerlund

Jonas Åkerlund is a Swedish film and music video director. He is best known for directing music videos, which are often mock forms of movie trailers and short films. He directed Candlemass' first video, Bewitched.

He became famous when directing videos for Roxette. He also directed Smack my Bitch Up from the Prodigy. He has also worked with Madonna, Christina Aguilera, U2, Blink-182, Metallica, P!ink, Britney Spears, Ramstein and Lady Gaga.

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What I most like about Akerlund's work is when he makes a short film for a music video, like he does in Telephone and Paparazzi (Lady Gaga). I think he makes his videos look interesting and entertaining, and tries to put a bit of action in to his work.

In Ray of Light he uses a lot of fas editing.