Marc Klasfeld
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Marc Klasfeld is an innovative American music video director who has also written and directed independent films and documentaries.
He has directed over a hundred music videos for many successful artists, with multiple MTV award wins and nominations, a list of which is given below.
Klasfeld has also forayed into episodic television, directing for the HBO series Oz as well as television commercials for ESPN's This is Sportscenter campaign and Smirnoff's Green Tea Partay viral video.
His first independent feature film, The L.A. Riot Spectacular is a satirical look at the 1992 Los Angeles riots starring Charles Dutton, Emilio Estevez, George Hamilton and Snoop Dogg. His second independent film is a documentary entitled "Bears", a subculture of homosexuality, where big, hairy gay men compete in beauty pageants and show off their unorthodox beauty in the bear community.
He is also the founder of Rockhard Films, a production company that also houses directors Ray Kay, Tony Petrossian, Phil Griffin and Rob Pearlstein. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
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- Coheed and Cambria - "Feathers"
- Crazy Loop (aka Dan Balan) — "Crazy Loop - Mm Ma Ma"
- Thursday - "War All The Time"
- Jay-Z — "Girls, Girls, Girls"
- Sum 41 — "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", "The Hell Song", "We're All to Blame", "Still Waiting", "Underclass Hero"
- Avenged Sevenfold — "Bat Country" *Winner 2006 MTV Best New Artist Video Award
- Enrique Iglesias — "Don't Turn off the Lights" (banned version)
- Glasses Malone — "Certified"
- Scarface — "My Block"
- 'N Sync — "Girlfriend"
- Bloodhound Gang — "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
- Destiny's Child — "Lose My Breath"
- Jewel — "Intuition"
- Foo Fighters — "Times like These"
- Nelly — "Country Grammar", "Batter Up", "Ride Wit Me" *Winner 2001 MTV Best New Artist Video Award
- Backstreet Boys — "Just Want You to Know"
- Bad Ronald — " Let's Begin (Shoot the Sh**)"
- Ludacris — "Area Codes"
- Kelis — "Bossy", "Blindfold Me", "Lil Star"
- Taking Back Sunday — "MakeDamnSure"
- Simple Plan — "Untitled", "Crazy"
- Bon Jovi — "Misunderstood", "All About Lovin' You"
- Vanessa Carlton — "A Thousand Miles", "Ordinary Day", "Nolita Fairytale", "Hands On Me"
- Gnarls Barkley — "Smiley Faces" (banned version)
- Nerina Pallot — "Everybody's Gone to War"
- Juvenile — "Ha", "Rodeo"
- Slipknot — "Vermillion 2"
- Shyne — "Bad Boyz", "That's Gangsta"
- Alien Ant Farm — "Smooth Criminal", "Movies", "These Days"
- Tom Jones — "International"
- 3 Doors Down — "When I'm Gone" (gravedigger version)
- Jermaine Dupri & Ludacris — "Welcome To Atlanta"
- Rakim — "On The Mic"
- Floetry — "Floetic"
- Musiq Soulchild — "Love", "Teach Me"
- Bubba Sparxxx — "Ugly"
- Three Six Mafia — "Tear Da Club Up"
- Avril Lavigne — "When You're Gone"
- Shop Boyz — "Party Like a Rock Star"
- Chamillionaire — "Hip-Hop Police", "Evening News"
- Insane Clown Posse — "Let's Go All The Way"
- Against Me "Stop" (Rock the Vote version)
- The Last Goodnight - "Pictures of You"