Description
- Used
- Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Label: Palm Pictures – PALMDVD 3069-2, Warp Records – PALMDVD 3069-2, Black Dog Films – PALMDVD 3069-2
- Series: Directors Label – Volume 2
- Format: DVD, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Country: US
- Released: 2003
- Genre: Electronic, Non-Music, Pop
- Style: IDM, Experimental, Abstract, Trip Hop, Promotional, Interview, Music Video
- 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
- Tracklist
- Music Videos
- 1 Autechre– Second Bad Vilbel
- 2 Aphex Twin– Come To Daddy
- 3 Portishead– Only You
- 4 Madonna– Frozen
- 5 Leftfield Featuring Afrika Bambaataa– Afrika Shox
- 6 Squarepusher– Come On My Selector
- 7 Aphex Twin– Windowlicker
- 8 Björk– All Is Full Of Love
- Other Work
- 9 No Artist– Making All Is Full Of Love
- 10 Chris Cunningham – Monkey Drummer
- 11 Chris Cunningham – Flex
- 12 Chris Cunningham – Mental Wealth
- 13 Chris Cunningham – Photocopier
- 14 Chris Cunningham – Engine
- 15 Aphex Twin– Windowlicker (Bleeped Version)
