The closest thing the music video world has to a Hall of Fame has inducted four new members; following a two-year absence, The Directors Label has issued new career anthology DVDs from Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek, Anton Corbijn and Stephane Sednaoui. Released in mid-September in North America and in mid-October in Europe, volumes four to seven of the series hope to replicate the breakout success of the original set, which cemented Gondry, Jonze and Cunningham as the industry's holy trinity.

In keeping with tradition, each director played a huge role in the assembly and curation of their respective discs. Along with the packaging design and booklet (each of which is 56 pages), the directors were responsible for their own menus and content. "It was fantastic because what they want is for the director to make the whole DVD," says Sednaoui. "So even though they thought maybe I should put that one video or this one, I was completely free to do it, and to do the menu, and put my interviews in black and white..."

With only a handful of supplementary interviews and commentaries, Glazer's disc is probably the shortest for new content. Meanwhile, Romanek's contains a new documentary as well as new interviews, Corbijn's contains a grab bag of curiosities and Sednaoui's includes three new films. "I contacted Lou Reed and proposed to do a film based on 'Walk On The Wild Side'," he says of one of the disc's new shorts. "I also had the drawings for an animation I was supposed to do with Björk 10 years ago... we had animators work for four months to animate it for the DVD."

Along with MTV's decision to start including director's names in videos and Jonze and Gondry's successful forays into feature film directing, Sednaoui credits the creation of The Directors Label with legitimizing the role of the music video director to the public. With Mike Mills, Hammer & Tongs, Shynola, Roman Coppola and Jean-Baptiste Mondino said to be frontrunners for the next set and a rumored offshoot for hip-hop/R&B directors such as Little X, Paul Hunter and Chris Robinson also in the pipeline, it's a task that the imprint is taking seriously.

For Sednaoui, who's since retired from video making, the disc put a nice finishing seal on his promo career. "I see it as a photobook. It's a recap of a period for me."

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