Director's Series, Vol. 2 - The Work of Director Chris Cunningham DVD (Region 1)

Director's Series, Vol. 2 - The Work of Director Chris Cunningham pictures

8.4	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Palm Pictures / Umvd
Release date : 28 October 2003
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0660200306922
UPC : 766483356668

Music (5), 2003 (3), Short (1), Music Videos (1), Documentary (1), Video (1)

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Product DescriptionChris Cunningham is one of the most innovative music video directors in the field. Combining a passion for special effects (he built a robot for the JUDGE DREDD movie and picked-up an Oscar nomination for special effects in ALIEN 3) electronica and a dark sense of humor Cunningham has infiltrated the underground and th Product Description
Chris Cunningham is one of the most innovative music video directors in the field. Combining a passion for special effects (he built a robot for the JUDGE DREDD movie and picked-up an Oscar nomination for special effects in ALIEN 3) electronica and a dark sense of humor Cunningham has infiltrated the underground and the mainstream with his state-of-the-art video techniques. Included on this compilation are his amazing grotesque and groundbreaking videos for Aphex Twin as well as work from Madonna Portishead Bjork and Squarepusher. Additional features include behind the scenes material short films commercials (for Playstation and others) as well as work Cunningham submitted to the highly lauded "Flex" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London.Tracks:1. Autechre - Second Bad Vibel2. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy3. Portishead - Only You4. Madonna - Frozen5. Leftfield featuring Afrika Bambaataa - Afrika Shox6. Squarepusher - Come On My Selector7. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker8. Bjork - All Is Full of Love9. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (bleeped version)Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 660200306922 Manufacturer No: PALMDV3069

Like the other volumes in the acclaimed Director's Series (featuring the work of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry), The Work of Director Chris Cunningham offers a feast of visual ingenuity, with one major difference: Unlike the relatively playful brightness of Jonze and Gondry, Cunningham wants to involve you in his nightmares. From the urban monstrosities of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" to the limb-shattering weirdness of Leftfield's "Afrika Shox," Cunningham's music videos emphasize the freakish and the bizarre, but they are also arrestingly beautiful and otherworldly, as in the aquatic effects used for Portishead's "Only You," combining underwater movements with ominous urban landscapes. Some of Cunningham's shock effects are horrifically effective (his 'flex" video installation, excerpted here with music by Aphex Twin, is as disturbing as anything conjured by David Cronenberg), while others are cathartic or, in the case of Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker," outrageously amusing. And while the eerie elegance of Madonna's "Frozen" arose from a chaotic production, the signature work in this collection is clearly Björk's "All Is Full of Love," a masterfully simple yet breathtaking vision of intimacy involving advanced robotics and seamless CGI composites. In these and other videos, Cunningham advances a unique aesthetic, infusing each video and commercial he makes with a dark, occasionally gothic sensibility. That these frequently nightmarish visions are also infectiously hypnotic is a tribute to Cunningham's striking originality. --Jeff Shannon

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