Chris Cunningham
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| Chris Cunningham | |
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| Born | 1970 |
| Origin | Reading UK |
| Genre(s) | Dance music |
| Occupation(s) | video director |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Label(s) | Warp Records |
| Associated acts | Aphex Twin |
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 film 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.
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[edit] 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, he released Monkey Drummer in the same set.
In 2005 Cunningham released the short film Rubber Johnny as a DVD accompanied by his first book.
[edit] 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. [2]
- "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 sounds created 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
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Chris Cunningham at the Internet Movie Database
- 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
