Currently working on his first feature film – produced by Spike Jonze – it seems like Ray Tintori is one gifted cinema talent to look out for. Stirring quite a buzz over his MGMT videoclips and having been endorsed by Spike Jonze himself – who named Tintori one of his favorite new directors on his blog – it seems like the 26-year-old is ready to solidify his cult status as a youtube video hero.

Let’s have a look at his work, starting with his award-winning (honorable mention at Sundance) shortfilm ‘Death To The Tinman’, which is simply beautiful:

Before that, Tintori made ‘Jettison Your Loved Ones’, a hypnotic piece about ‘A man addicted to faking his own death strives for glory while his abandoned son, a boxer who thinks he’s from the future, falls in love with his half-sister, the world’s greatest sword fighter.’

But last year, Tintori jumped to the attention of the masses with the high-concept videoclips he made for psych-rockers MGMT:

About his first feature film project let’s conclude by copy-pasting ‘Spike Jonze has picked up the feature rights to Shane Jones’ novel Light Boxes, but instead of directing it, he’s handing off those duties to Ray Tintori.’ Not bad. Not bad at all.