Jamie Thraves

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jamie Thraves (born James Thraves, 1969) is a British film writer and director. Thraves studied art at Hull University in 1989 and here he began making his early short films. His graduation film Scratch, made in 1991, went on to win numerous awards at short film festivals around the world. He made another award winning film under the BFI New Directors scheme, The Take-Out (1993). He then joined the Royal College Of Art, where he made another award winning film, The Hackney Downs (1994). After leaving the RCA he joined Oil Factory, a leading music video company. There he made his groundbreaking video for Radiohead for their song Just, where a man lies on the pavement and is confronted by an angry crowd. The video used subtitles as in a foreign movie and has perplexed and infuriated fans for years. Thraves made one more short film, his most success…

Known for

The Projectionist2012

The Projectionist

2012

The Cry of the Owl

2009

Radiohead: The Best Of

2008

7 Television Commercials

1998

Treacle Jr.

2010

Pickups

2017

Scratch1991

Scratch

1991

The Low Down

2001

blur | The Best Of

2000

I Just Want to Kiss You1998

I Just Want to Kiss You

1998

Fingers & Thumbs2014

Fingers & Thumbs

2014

The Hackney Downs1995

The Hackney Downs

1995