For this program, Tarsem has personally selected short-form works that established him as a maker of iconic images in the decade preceding his breakout debut The Cell. When he was just out of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, Suzanne Vega tapped Tarsem to direct the video for her 1990 single “Tired of Sleeping.” Next came his video for the R.E.M. megahit “Losing My Religion,” inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” which swept the 1991 MTV Music Video Awards and is widely acknowledged as one of the most popular videos ever made. Taken as a whole, these early credits—compiled into something Tarsem calls his “Mother Reel,” not because it’s the “Mother of all Reels” but rather because he assembled it to help his parents understand his meteoric career—consistently demonstrate Tarsem’s gift for bringing pictorial ingenuity to the timeworn formats of the music video and the ad campaign.