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Name
  
Bryan Barber

Role
  
Music Video Director

Movies
  
Idlewild


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Education
  
Clark Atlanta University (1996), Hiram W. Johnson High School (1988)

Nominations
  
BET Hip Hop Award for Best Video Director of the Year

Similar People
  
Faizon Love, Andre 3000, Terrence Howard, Ben Vereen, Big Boi

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Bryan Barber (born December 20, 1970) is a music video and motion picture director. He has directed many music videos for popular artists.

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Personal life

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Barber graduated from Hiram Johnson High School in Sacramento, California, in 1988. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University in 1996. Bryan has 2 daughters and a son.

Career

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Barber has stature within the music video industry for his ability to break out of the cliches that have dogged the music video business. Barber's videos convey a classic mood often taken from previous era hits. Barber's ability to be heard as a clear and distinct authorial voice lay in his defining a unique visual style, a postmodern style that relied heavily on the use of classic film and TV clips. For example, Barber referenced Grease in the OutKast music video Roses and the Beatles' Ed Sullivan appearance in the band's video for "Hey Ya!". In the process, Barber emerged as a talent and imparted an original image to the hip-hop movement.

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Barber made his feature film debut with Idlewild, a 1930s musical set in the fictional Georgia town of Idlewild (inspired by the Michigan resort town that served as a safe vacation haven for middle-class blacks in the pre-Civil Rights era). The film starred OutKast (whose members include André 3000 and Big Boi), Paula Patton, Terrence Howard and Faizon Love. OutKast also produced Idlewild (album) an accompanying album.

Barber spent "$50,000 for a presentation that included motion capture, stunts, concept art, storyboards and sound design" to try to get job directing X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 20th Century Fox. He did not get the job but Fox was impressed enough with it that they reimbursed Barber. Barber is currently working on an adaptation of Gigantor after acquiring the rights from Fred Ladd.

Videography

Some of the many videos Barber has directed are:

References

Bryan Barber Wikipedia