Lo-fi technology meets pop surrealism in the world of Ray Tintori, a 25-year-old director best known for his kaleidoscopic collaborations with glam pop band MGMT.

Tintori was born into a film family in New York. His mother is a script supervisor and his father was an editor, so he spent much of his childhood wandering film sets. When applying for college, Tintori knew he wanted to direct but wondered if film school would leave him with a narrow perspective on life, one informed by theory rather than worldly experience. When it comes to directing, his ethos is to “jump in face first.”

“At a certain point I decided that we should make films in a way so that the experience of making them teaches us more about the world,” he says.

After graduation, he moved to New Orleans and signed with Partizan in 2008. His profile in the video world has mirrored MGMT’s meteoric rise in music thanks to three memorable videos: the interactive Jodorovsky homage “Time to Pretend”, the psychedelic jungle rave-up “Electric Feel” and finally “Kids”, an ambitious, part-animated nod to ’80s latex movie monsters.

The work has earned Tintori a spot on NME’s list of 50 “Innovators Pushing Music Forward”. Another fan is Spike Jonze, who’s tapped him to direct a film based on Shane Jones’ novel Light Boxes.

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