Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born 21 July 1949 in Aubervilliers) is a French fashion photographer and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Don Henley, Neneh Cherry, Jaye Muller (J./Count Jaye), Axel Bauer and Les Rita Mitsouko. Mondino has also photographed the covers and album packaging for Aṣa's Beautiful Imperfection, the Marianne Faithfull albums Before The Poison (2005) and Easy Come, Easy Go (2008), Shakespear's Sister's Hormonally Yours (1992), Alain Bashung's Osez Joséphine (1991), Chatterton (1994), Mylène Farmer's Désobéissance (2018), J.'s We Are the Majority (1992) and Prince's Lovesexy (1988). He also designed the titles for the Anglo-French TV music show Rapido.

The video for Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer", which Mondino directed, swept the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, winning "Best Video", "Best Direction", "Best Art Direction" and "Best Cinematography". This video paired him with compatriot cinematographer, Pascal Lebègue, with whom he would later shoot several other notable music videos in black and white, such as "Russians" for Sting and "Justify My Love" for Madonna.

Mondino's daughter Mahaut is a singer-songwriter and producer.

Music video filmography

+ Film Year Title Artist Notes 1981 "Paradis" Alain Chamfort "Little Darlin'" Sheila 1983 "Quelqu'un comme toi" Taxi Girl "Soleil, soleil" Ahmed Fakroun "La danse des mots" Mon Dino aka Jean-Baptiste Mondino 1984 "Cargo" Axel Bauer "Un autre monde" Téléphone "The Boys of Summer" Don Henley Won Video of the Year, Best Direction, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards. 1985 "Slave to Love" & "Don't Stop the Dance" Bryan Ferry "Downtown Train" Tom Waits "Russians" Sting 1986 "Each Time You Break My Heart" Nick Kamen "Open Your Heart" Madonna "Wood Beez" (US Version) Scritti Politti 1987 "C'est comme ça" Les Rita Mitsouko "You Owe Me Some Kind of Love" Chris Isaak "Never Let Me Down" David Bowie "To Be Reborn" Boy George "Mia Bocca" Jill Jones 1988 "Qu'est-ce que t'es belle" Catherine Ringer & Marc Lavoine "I Wish U Heaven" Prince "How to Do That" Jean-Paul Gaultier 1989 "Be" Lenny Kravitz "Manchild" Neneh Cherry 1990 "I've Got You Under My Skin" Neneh Cherry "Justify My Love" Madonna "Tandem" Vanessa Paradis 1991 "Sorry About the Weather" Mark Curry "Osez Joséphine" Alain Bashung "Step On" (US Version) Happy Mondays 1992 "Volutes" Alain Bashung "Born on the Wrong Side of Town" J. (Jaye Muller) "Rhythm Is Love" Keziah Jones 1993 "L'ennemi dans la glace" Alain Chamfort "Buddy X" Neneh Cherry "Natural High" Vanessa Paradis 1994 "Ma petite entreprise" Alain Bashung "Violently Happy" Björk "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" Meshell Ndegeocello "Les amants" Les Rita Mitsouko "Séquelles" MC Solaar 1995 "Wonderful Shadow" Tanita Tikaram "Human Nature" Madonna 1996 "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" Madonna "Time" China Moses "Kootchi" Neneh Cherry 1998 "Tout le monde" Zazie 2000 "Naive Song" Mirwais Ahmadzaï "Don't Tell Me" Madonna Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Music Video. Two nominations at 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. 2003 "Hollywood" Madonna 2007 "Sing Sing" Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle "The Operation" Charlotte Gainsbourg 2008 "Beauty Mark" Charlotte Gainsbourg "Dancin' Til Dawn" Lenny Kravitz "Sur un trapèze" Alain Bashung 2013 "L'amour naissant" Sébastien Tellier 2014 "Everything" Neneh Cherry "The Great Elements" Mahaut 2015 "The Long Game" Mahaut "Lie to Me" Mahaut "In Love with a Boy" Kaya Stewart 2017 "Miss You" Carla Bruni