Cunningham is a seriously dangerous music video director, crafting cinematic technological dreamscapes that border on the nightmarish. They are, simply put, full-out assaults on the senses; his videos are a jumble of confusing, disturbing images married with an onslaught of digital noise and aggression, fusing the organic and the technological, the flesh and the steel. And yet, he manages to make videos consistently entertaining in their esoteric strangeness. They are impossible to quantify, and more impossible to forget. - Judge Adam Arseneau, DVDVerdict.com
London-based Chris Cunningham has created some of the most provocative and visually disturbing subject matter in the history of the music video or film. His unnerving, award-winning works have included Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy” (an elderly woman is chased through an English council housing complex by pint-sized Richard James mutants); Björk’s “All is Full of Love” (Two robots fall in love as one creates the other piece by piece); and Portishead’s “Only You” (Beth Gibbons and a young lad buoy eerily in a shaded alleyway, her movements as bewitching as her singing). The Work of Director Chris Cunningham also includes unseen versions of his art films “Flex” and “Monkey Drummer.”
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