Chris Cunningham is a music video director, digital artist and short film director. Born in 1970 and brought up in Suffolk he defines the modern digital filmmaker using surreal effects, set ups, costume, CGI and prosthetics to create startling and interesting work. He has done groundbreaking work on abusing "The Uncanny Valley" his works pushing to give the viewer a sense of dread, surrealism and dark humour.
His music videos for British music artist Aphex Twin gave Cunningham large media coverage that continues to grow with the videos popularity on the internet, they are no doubt his best known works "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy", and the two continued to collaborate on Cunningham's short film "Rubber Johnny". All 3 films are distinctly surreal and counter a lot of popular conventions without breaking them. For example in Come to Daddy (posted above) the artist is shown in the forefront of the film, one of the conventions of music video, but instead of being sensationalised or sexualised he is portrayed as a dark, dystopian force the artists face grafted onto a hideous monster and "yobbish" children.
Chris Cunningham's focus on the deranged and visually interesting has led to many small but impressive film projects, having never jumped over to feature film directing, Cunningham has continued to experiment and interest the media savvy community and hone his own craft, his videos, art instalments and short films branching from the mainstream
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