Music video directors: Chris Cunningham

Come to Daddy from Aphex Twin was the first music video that really shocked and impressed me at the same time. The concept of the whole video was just something completely new, and though there were strange and crazy clips, this just took the cake for me at that time. The visual style, colors, locations and post production was top notch and brutally dirty at the same time, and it worked like a charm. To this day I think this is Chris Cunningham director's best video, it became an instant classic:

Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin

Chris Cunningham got into the film industry very young, he became a concept artist and was even lucky enough to work with Stanley Kubrick on his movie AI, which sadly was finished (and fucked up) by Steven Spielberg. Anyway, C.C. did some robot concepts for him, but they stayed in the shelf for many years. Luckily, he could realize them in a video for Björk.

All is Full of Love by Björk

He made many really good music videos between 1996 and 2006. He also tried to do short films, but I think they were way too experimental to make a real stir. Here is one of his shorts:

Rubber Johnny, music by Aphex Twin

For many years he had a feature in pre-production, Neuromancer from Gibson, but sadly it never got realized. Lately there is not much information about C.C. He did a Gucci commercial a few years ago, and last year he did a video-remix of a Gil Scott-Heron track. I hope one day he will be back to his old productive self, whether it's music videos, shorts or feature films, his visual style should live on.

Here is his filmography, I can honestly say that all of these videos are worth checking out, there's something good and interesting in all of them:

• "Second Bad Vilbel" (1996) video for Autechre
• "Back With The Killer Again" (1996) video for The Auteurs
• "Light Aircraft on Fire" (1996) video for The Auteurs
• "Fighting Fit" (1996) video for Gene
• "Another Day" (1996) video for Lodestar
• "Space Junkie" (1996) video for Holy Barbarians
• "36 Degrees" (1996) video for Placebo
• "Personally" (1997) video for 12 Rounds
• "Jesus Coming in for the Kill" (1997) video for Life's Addiction
• "The Next Big Thing" (1997) video for Jesus Jones
• "Tranquillizer" (1997) video for Geneva
• "No More Talk" (1997) video for Dubstar
• "Something to Say" (1997) video for Jocasta
• "Come to Daddy" (1997) video for Aphex Twin
• "Only You" (1998) video for Portishead
• "Frozen" (1998) video for Madonna
• "Come On My Selector" (1998) video for Squarepusher
• "All Is Full of Love" (1999) video for Björk
• "Windowlicker" (1999) video for Aphex Twin
• "Afrika Shox" (1999) video for Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa
• "Mental Wealth" (1999) commercial for PlayStation
• "Flex" (2000), using sounds created by Aphex Twin
• "Monkey Drummer" (2001), using "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels mount" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
• "Rubber Johnny" (2005), using "Afx237 V7" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
• "Sheena Is a Parasite" (2006), video for The Horrors
• "Gucci Flora" (2009) commercial for Gucci Perfume
• "New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Remix)" (2010) video for Gil Scott-Heron

Source: Wikipedia