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| Chris Cunningham |
Style
His style is art-house with a horror element, all his videos are very surreal. He has a knack for the extraordinary. For example in The Aphex Twins- Come To Daddy, he has little school girls, around the age of 8 running around then the camera shows all the girls having the same mans face, which messes with your mind. On the other hand
What influenced him?
In 'come to daddy' by the Aphex Twins, he features a bunch of school girls with the same MANS face. When asked "What made you come up with the idea?"
He replied "I remembered being chased through the woods by a nine-year- old child when i was about 16. I was on a pushbike and he had a hammer. It was humiliating and i was shitting it. At 16 you don't want to end up being pulverised by a nine- year- old in case of and girls watching! Also, Richard was using children's voices in his tracks at the time and using his face on all his covers. It was a combination of all that
Also in that music video, he used about 2 children, and the rest were all midget adults. "That's one of my favourite things about the video. Little hairy-armed kids"- Chris Cunningham.
( I found this in the DVD of 'the work of director Chris Cunningham)
What runs through all his videos?
In all of his videos surrealism runs through them. Also they are very enigmatic, as you never know what, and why things are heppening.
On the other hand he has made more aesthetically dynamic music videos, for example his video for Bjork's- all is full of love
which has an intertextual reference to i-Robot:
Other work
On the other hand, Chris Cunningham doesn't just do music videos, he also creates short films, commecials, and photography. Here is a video to his playsation advert:
Come on Tom... you need way more than this.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Cunningham's style? (art-house/surrealism/horror etc)
What recurs through all his videos?
What has he made?... how was it received? What was the mainstream style of videos at the time of, say, Come to Daddy or Rubber Jonny?
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