Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy

Psychological horror movie meets music video.

Released in October 1997 this video was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange. The acclaimed music video was voted 17th greatest music video ever by Q magazine readers. His video for Aphex Twin’s “Windowlicker” was nominated for the “Best Video” award at the Brit Awards 2000. He also directed Madonna’s “Frozen” video. His also directed the award-winning Björk’s - All Is Full of Love.


Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Björk - All is Full of Love

Bjork always find great talent to direct her videos, and as a sci-fi fan this may be my favorite.

This 1999 video was directed by Chris Cunningham. The video won multiple awards, including two MTV Video Music Awards for Breakthrough Video and Best Special Effects. It was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video (it lost to Korn’s “Freak on a Leash”). It was also the first ever music video to win a Gold Pencil at the D&AD Awards. It is on permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The video also placed in “MTV2’s 100 Best Videos Ever” coming in at number 1. After seeing Cunningham’s work on the 1994 film version Judge Dredd, Stanley Kubrick head hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the central robot child character in his version of the film A.I. Cunningham also directed Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy.

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