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Chris Cunningham is a English music video film director and video artist who was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970, and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.

His first music video was for Warp Records act Autechre in 1995.

His video work, "flex" (containing original music by Aphex Twin) was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2000.

He has worked on special make-up effects for the films Alien³, Alien: Resurrection and Judge Dredd and model making on Hardware and Nightbreed. He also worked for over a year on the film A.I. when it was a Stanley Kubrick project.

A DVD containing Chris Cunningham's innovative music promos and adverts called The Work Of Director Chris Cunninghams was released in November 2004.

In 2005 Chris Cunningham released the short film 'Rubber Johnny' as a DVD (with music by Aphex Twin) accompanied by his first book. On 17 August 2005 Cunningham appeared at the Portobello Film Festival and said he is currently writing two feature films, as well as answering questions from the audience about his work.

Videos

• "Second Bad Vilbel" (1995) video for Autechre
• "Space Junkie" (1996) video for Holy Barbarians
• "Another Day" (1996) video for Lodestar
• "36 Degrees" (1996) video for Placebo
• "Personally" (1996) video for 12 Rounds
• "Something To Say" (1997) video for Jocasta
• "Jesus Coming In for the Kill" (1997) video for Life's Addiction
• "Tranquillizer" (1997) video for Geneva
• "Come to Daddy" (1997) video for Aphex Twin
• "Only You" (1998) video for Portishead
• "Come On My Selector" (1998) video for Squarepusher
• "Frozen" (1998) video for Madonna
• "Afrika Shox" (1999) video for Leftfield
• "All Is Full of Love" (1999) video for Björk
• "Windowlicker" (1999) video for Aphex Twin
• "flex" (2000), using "Flex" 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
• "Light Aircraft on Fire" and "Back With The Killer Again" videos for The Auteurs
• "The Next Big Thing" video for Jesus Jones

External links

• Director File Chris Cunningham - documents all of Chris' work
• DirectorsLabel.com - co-founded with Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry
• Internet Movie Database listing
• List of Music Videos

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