CHRIS CUNNINGHAM

'Chris Cunningham' is an acclaimed English music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.
His DVD ''The Work of Director Chris Cunningham'' was released in November 2004 as part of the Directors Label set. This DVD includes selected highlights from 1995-2000.

Contents

Music videos

Films

Advertisements

Production

List of videos

External links

Music videos

Cunningham has had close ties to Warp Records since his first production for Autechre. His infamous video for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" is perhaps his most well known. His video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love" won multiple awards, including an MTV music video award for Breakthrough Video and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. It can still be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His video for Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" was nominated for the "Best Video" award at the Brit Awards 2000. He also directed Madonna's "Frozen" video.
His video work, "flex" was first shown in 2000 at the Royal Academy of Arts, and subsequently at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery and other art galleries. Later releasing Monkey Drummer in the same set.
In 2005 Cunningham released the short film ''Rubber Johnny'' as a DVD accompanied by his first book.

Films

In 1989, Cunningham worked at ''Spitting Image'', building animatronic robot arms and sculpting caricatures for the TV series. In 1990 he worked on sculpture and animatronics for the film ''Alien³''.
After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1994 film version ''Judge Dredd'', Stanley Kubrick head hunted Cunningham^[1] to design and supervise animatronic tests of the central robot child character in his version of the film ''A.I.'' Cunningham worked for over a year on the film ''A.I.'', before leaving to pursue a career as a director.
Earlier work in film included model making, prosthetic make-up and concept illustrations for ''Hardware'' and ''Dust Devil'' with director Richard Stanley, as well as ''Nightbreed''. In 1990-1992 he contributed the occasional cover painting and strip for ''Judge Dredd Megazine'', working under the pseudonym Chris Halls, the surname of his stepfather.

Advertisements

Cunningham's notable commercials include "Mental Wealth" for Playstation, two for Levi's and one for Telecom Italia starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Production

Chris Cunningham was in charge of steadicam in the film ''Daft Punk's Electroma''.

List of videos

★ "Another Day" (1996) video for Lodestar

★ "Back with the killer again" (1996) video for The Auteurs

★ "Light Aircraft on Fire" (1996) video for The Auteurs

★ "Second Bad Vilbel" (1996) video for Autechre

★ "36 Degrees" (1996) video for Placebo

★ "Personally" (1997) video for 12 Rounds

★ "Something to say" (1997) video for Jocasta

★ "Jesus coming in for the kill" (1997) video for Life's Addiction

★ "The next big thing" (1997) video for Jesus Jones

★ "No more talk" (1997) video for Dubstar

★ "Come to Daddy" (1997) video for Aphex Twin

★ "Only You" (1998) video for Portishead

★ "Frozen" (1998) video for Madonna

★ "Come on my Selector" (1998) video for Squarepusher

★ "All Is Full of Love" (1999) video for Björk

★ "Windowlicker" (1999) video for Aphex Twin

★ "Afrika Shox" (1999) video for Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa

★ "flex" (2000), using "Flex" by Aphex Twin

★ "Monkey Drummer" (2001), using "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels mount" from Aphex Twin's album ''drukqs''

★ "Rubber Johnny" (2005), using "Afx237 V7" from Aphex Twin's album ''drukqs''

★ "Sheena is a Parasite" (2006), video for the Horrors

External links

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★ Music Video Database entry

★ Director File Chris Cunningham - documents all of Chris' work

★ DirectorsLabel.com - co-founded with Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry

★ 2000 AD profile

★ 2005 interview