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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
EAN: 0660200306922
Format: Color, Compilation, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Running Time: 400 minutes
Sales Rank: 39133
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Chris Cunningham is one of the most innovative music video directors in the field. Combining a passion for special effects (he built a robot for the JUDGE DREDD movie and picked-up an Oscar nomination for special effects in ALIEN 3) electronica and a dark sense of humor Cunningham has infiltrated the underground and the mainstream with his state-of-the-art video techniques. Included on this compilation are his amazing grotesque and groundbreaking videos for Aphex Twin as well as work from Madonna Portishead Bjork and Squarepusher. Additional features include behind the scenes material short films commercials (for Playstation and others) as well as work Cunningham submitted to the highly lauded 'Flex' exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London.Tracks:1. Autechre - Second Bad Vibel2. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy3. Portishead - Only You4. Madonna - Frozen5. Leftfield featuring Afrika Bambaataa - Afrika Shox6. Squarepusher - Come On My Selector7. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker8. Bjork - All Is Full of Love9. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (bleeped version)Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 660200306922 Manufacturer No: PALMDV3069
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Chris Cunningham: Bizarre Brit
Anyone worth their salt as an Aphex Twin fan should recognize this man's name instantly. The two go hand-in-hand like two schoolgirls skipping home from school. Besides that, the work Chris has done is nothing sort of remarkable. The efficiency of his make-up effects is above that of even some big budget films. Be it robots for Bjork, bleeding darkness in the desert for Madonna, or insane Asian children for Squarepusher, the depth that Chris delves into his videos is staggering. For the disk itself, ... Read More
Rating: - This is amazing:D
I am a big big fan of Chris Cunningham's work and I just love everything about this DVD. It has music videos that I love on them so I can show my family how brilliant he is. I was sad that they didn't have rubber Johnny on there but that is ok. The only thing that is really on this thing is music videos and one behind the scenes with Bjork and Chris. I would only recommend buying this if you want the music videos in your possession.
Rating:  - Doesn't work!
If you are a UK customer - DO NOT BUY THIS! Bought one for myself and one as a gift and they didn't play - just read 'wrong region disc'. This should be made more clear when buying product. Better things to do with my time than to be sending back unsuitable goods, so didn't get a refund. I also received another one which I had cancelled so I've ended up with 3 completely useless DVDs!!! F***ING RIP OFF!
Rating: - Why stories aren't necessary for well executed nightmares
I write this review mainly to react on a kind of comment I often here but never realy get. It's the standard comment that a a book, a movie or a video, how skillfully crafted or how originally conceived in the beginning, is never really good when there is no real story line. Apparently there must be a tale to be told, going from A to B and ending with Z. (And if you are Christopher Nolan or David Lynch your stories may go from B to D to Y and ending with J or something. But, at the end, a lot of people ... Read More
Rating:  - The videos aren't bad, but the presentation is horrible...
"All is Full of Love" is a brilliant video in every respect - it's perverse and transcendent at the same time, mixing in humaniform robots with flowing water and hard ceramic - it looks like the future of robot porn.
However, what makes me only able to listen to it for brief periods is the menus. Whoever decided that it'd be a good idea to play a hideous cacaphony of every song on the disk, apparently played backwards and at high speed during the menu screens, ought to be horsewhipped for ... Read More
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