Music Videos
Dark then became a sought-after music video director who has directed more than 150 clips, helming videos for popular recording artists such as Inspectah Deck, Xzibit, Linkin Park, Sublime, Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, David Banner, Disturbed, Busta Rhymes, Nick Cannon, The Melvins and The Calling. He has been nominated for and won several MTV Video Music Awards as well as awards from BET and Billboard for his music video work.
In 1998 Dark directed the video for "Zoot Suit Riot" by Cherry Poppin' Daddies, which won the Daddies a nomination for "Best New Artist in a Video" at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards. The same year he directed "Fuck Dying" and "Pushin' Weight" for Ice Cube. Dark's 1998 video "What U See Is What U Get" for Xzibit remained at the top of the Charts on BET for almost a year and won a Source Award. On November 22 and 23, 1999, he directed the video for "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" by Britney Spears. In 2000, Vitamin C's "Graduation (Friends Forever)" and Linkin Park's "One Step Closer" video, which was shot in Los Angeles, 63 feet underground in an abandoned subway tunnel. In 2002 he directed the video for the A*Teens cover of "Can't Help Falling in Love" for the Disney feature Lilo & Stitch. In mid 2002 he also directed the video for the Breaking Benjamin single Polyamorous.
Dark directed the music video for "Undercover Funk" by Snoop Dogg featuring Bootsy Collins for the film Undercover Brother. The video featured acting performances by the film's stars Eddie Griffin, who morphs into Snoop Dogg at the beginning of the video, and dancing and lip synching performances by Neil Patrick Harris and Denise Richards.
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