Video Artist Extraordinaire

About 9 years ago i first saw the video for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" and i still remember how that disturbing image of those little girls with Richard James' face running around had stuck in my head for a long long time. It was around that time when i had first discovered Warp Records and that whole new experimental sound was like finding gold. So as i started to dig on the label's sound and artists, i found out that the guy who directed the Aphex Twin video had already worked with Autechre, one of the label's biggest names. His name was Chris Cunningham a Brit from Reading who has done pretty much everything from music videos and advertisments for well known brands, to short films and music production. The most striking discovery i did was that his early work was apparently so influential that even the great Stanley Kubrick wanted, and finally got to recruit him, for his own final movie called Artificial Intelligence. As talented as he was Cunningham quickly became the next big thing in different areas such as photography and producing as well as film making. In 2005 he created two short films. The first one, called Rubber Johny, was filmed entirely in night vision and had its soundtrack written by Aphex Twin himself, and the second one which he did for Warp Films and remains unreleased until today was edited to music by Squarepusher. In 2008, Cunningham produced a fashion shoot for Dazed & Confused magazine in which he picked singer Grace Jones to be his model in order to create "Nubian versions" of Rubber Johnny. Except the videos he directed for Aphex Twin he also responsible for the amazing video of Bjork's "All is full of Love" which has won numerous awards, for which he also created the photography and cover artwork, like he had already done for the "Come to Daddy" and "Windolicker" videos. Until this day he has created videos for a series of artists such as Portishead, Leftfield and Madonna. After finishing off the short films Cunningham turned towards music production and although he was very enthousiastic about it, his first attempt was left unfinished due to the fact that he was already working on a film script before and he did not have enough time to work on two projects at the same time. He did though manage to play a gig in Japan where he combined sound and image using other artists' material blended with videos of his own