Friday, January 2

Film Studies: Director Spotlight on...Little X  

Little X, (born Julien Christian Lutz in 1975), is a Canadian music video director of Trinidadian heritage.
His mother, a Trinidadian and his father of Swiss descent.He has two

sisters and ten aunts on his mom's side. A protégé of Hype Williams, Little X has been noted
for his high-budget, visually distinctive videos for popular music singles, including Mystikal's
"Shake That Ass" and "Danger! (Been So Long)", "Georgy Porgy" by Eric Benét & Faith Evans,
No Sex in the Champagne Room by Chris Rock and Gerald Levert, and Usher's "U Got It Bad"
& "U Don't Have to Call", Mario Let Me Love You, among many others. One of his trademarks is
tweaking the letterbox format; instead of simply using black bars on the top and bottom of the
frame to frame the image, many videos by Little X feature the bars opening vertically to reveal
the video and closing vertically at the end. His private corporation is the simply referred to as
"The Sun God Collection".

Was to direct now defunct vampire feature "Razorwire". He was represented by HSI
Productions and is currently represented by DNA - David Naylor and Associates.

Also goes by the names Mr. X and Lil' X or just X.

He attended both Mayfield Secondary School and North Park Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario.

Perhaps his most successful work yet came as the director for the music video of Usher's global hit, Yeah!
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