Stars: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Portishead, Madonna, Leftfield, Bjork

Summary: Features a collection of music videos, short films, video installations and commercials directed by Chris Cunningham. Features the music videos: Autechre - 'Second Bad Vibel', Aphex Twin - 'Come To Daddy', Portishead - 'Only You', Madonna - 'Frozen', Leftfield Featuring Afrika Bambaataa - 'Afrika Shox', Bjork - 'All Is Full Of Love' and more.

Remember the gothic Eastern witch in a barren icy wasteland that Madonna portrayed in her video for the single "Frozen"

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The Work of Director Chris Cunningham, like the other volumes in the acclaimed Director's Series (Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry) 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 emphasise 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

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Autechre Second Bad Vibel, Aphex Twin Come to Daddy, Portishead Only You, Madonna Frozen, Leftfield featuring Afrika Bambaataa Afrika Shox, Squarepusher Come on My Selector, Aphex Twin Windowlicker, Bjork All is Full of Love, Sony Playstation ad Mental Wealth, Uns
Release Date:	December 1, 2003
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	5990449
Label:	The Director's Series / Labels U K
Keywords:	Music, Work, Rock, Chris, Series, Pop, Performing, Director, Director's, Arts, Popular, Cunningham
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts