Chris Cunningham?

Before directing music videos 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'. His work on 'Judge Dredd' propelled him, in 1995, to work with the late Stanley Kubrick on his then-unfinished project A.I. (which was picked up by Speilberg).


In 1997 Chris Cunningham became famous with 'Come to Daddy', a surreally dark music video for the electronic music of Aphex Twin. In 2000 Cunningham directed two abstract short films for the Anthony D'Offay Gallery titled 'flex' and 'Monkey Drummer'. Those works showed a very modern and hyper-realistic take on the world. In 2005 Cunningham released 'Rubber Johnny', a six-minute short that showed just how disturbing a vision Chris has.

Themes inherent in alot of cunninghams work show his personal interest/obsession with human anatomy and machinery or engineering. This is maybe most prominent in his award winning music video for Bjork's 'All is full of love' where her face features in a futuristic lesbian love scene between two robots in a factory; described by cunningham in the documentary series 'mirrorball' as "Karma sutra meats the industrial revolution, a chance to do something sexually suggestive without it being unshowable" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igg1DX40MS8.

As an auteur Chris takes a more artistic approach drawing on his own personal experiences for his music videos. One example of this is his use of 'synaesthesia', making connections between the sounds in the music and images in his imagination; when he first heard the Bjork track he wrote down the words 'sexual,' 'milk,' 'white porcelain,' 'surgery'.

"Mental Wealth" (1994) commercial for PlayStation

"Second Bad Vilbel" (1996) video for Autechre

"Back With The Killer Again" (1996) video for The Auteurs

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

"36 Degrees" (1996) video for Placebo

"The Next Big Thing" (1997) video for Jesus Jones

"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

p.s. i love saad :)