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Enjoyed his set at the big chill, really good stuff...

Going to subscribe to you as that's 2 of your videos that I have enjoyed, fingers crossed you make more :)

Dude, this is a great video. Well researched, editing is well done, and the audio sounds great (rare for most TH-camrs with VO). You should have WAAAAY more subscribers for this... keep up the good work!

Come on my Chris! Get busy!

I didn't know he made Frozen. It's a shit song and a forgettable video. Fits her brand tho.

Great video. Epic view count, you deserve so many more subscribers [212] Monday 21st October 2024

I interviewed him when he was editing the Madonna video. At that time his plan seemed to be to transition into feature film making, having worked with Kubrick etc. He said he made commercials to experiment with big budgets and learn the craft. I have always wondered what went wrong. To me as an outsider, sadly drug addiction or mental health problems look like the most likely explanation why he disappeared. But I don't know him, so if anyone does, please set the record straight.

That series of DVD - the 'Director's Label' were the coolest when I was growing up. Shame there is no industry anymore for such trailblazing. Also as a big fan of Warpaint as well - would love to see that scrapped documentary!! And i had no idea it was Cunningham playing Rubber Johnny...

Autushurr?

I honestly wished I'd been at one of his live performances. Guess that won't be happening anymore in the future 😢

i heard once that he was involved in the adaptation of the novel Blindsight by Peter Watts. Also i read about a movie he was planning to do about zombies in the USA. but since the divorce he drop all.

Dior Men's Summer 2021 Collection. Cunningham edited and soundtracked a short film about a painter.

And these sets and the other 3 Palm pictures released after are essentials for any movie collector.

Us millennials had no idea how good we had it; really seems like culture peaked around 2000

Met Chris a few times in Camden near where he lived when I was directing music videos with draw pictures and dirty uk around 2006-8... He went off to help a mate build a house in the USA for a spell. Great talent, left a big imprint on the film and music industry.

That second film that you mentioned could possibly be based on a comic that ran in Metal Hurlant, it’s called ‘Ranxerox’ by Tanino Libretore, I remember reading something years ago that he was interested in doing a feature. It’s basically a 70s cyberpunk tale about a violent android that has anger issues, beautifully hand painted and inked, grotesque, absurd and non PC, right in his element

Auteshrr

Didn’t Cunningham do a Liars video in 2008? Plaster casts of everything?

why the fuck did i watch this idiotic Wikipedia ass video

I still have that DVD! I remember my sister's new boyfriend fell asleep with the DVD menu going in a constant loop, full volume. Most annoying night of my life.

Windowlicker is one of those music videos that if I’m hanging out with someone and they’ve never heard of it I have to play it for them. Rubber Johny is another one that I was a huge fan of there is a few things in here that I didn’t know about so thanks for taking the time to make this. I totally can’t understand his reasoning behind moving away from music videos and just wanting to make his own music. It would be cool if I get to see a show of his one day with his own music

Since the release of this video, the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery has run an exhibition titled Post Human featuring a new work from Chris Cunningham titled Transforma (dated 2024). "Transforma features Blew-a polymorphic cam-girl who performs an ASMR shapeshifting routine for her audience of futuristic fetishists who get off on the close-up sounds of her bodily transformations. Every sound in Blew’s act is synced and tuned to the 60Hz drones of the video light box that houses her." Blew is performed by Mani Yarosh. If anyone here owns the Rubber Johnny book/dvd, you were probably already familiar with that primal disgust/curiosity/confusion you felt when AI generated images of organisms started emerging a couple of years ago. It makes perfect sense that Chris would now use AI, or in the case of Transforma, less "use" it (to, say, create realistic images) and more exhibit its morphing, undulating, plastic properties and explore how they intertwine with the transformation of our species.

You missed Flex, a feature length installation which is absolutely his best work.

Lots of people from this era didn't make it through to what the rules are now, if they even exist. We learned the lay of the land in the pre-Internet days when artists became walled institutions, and we struggled to make ourselves conform to the rules of that system just as it dissolved into the nebulous chaos that media has evaporated into today. There's no home left for anyone stuck between eras like this, and now the pace is too high to cope with for anyone wanting to work intelligently at a particular focus. Back then, innovation and experimentation was difficult and expensive to manifest in these mediums, and now it's so prevalent that innovation happens better by accident. Focus is pointless now. I remember a large portion of my time being spent on just finding new music, and now it's always there waiting for you to press play on any number of sites; completely overwhelming. Our oldschool dopamine circuits can't handle the volume of reward-like signals anymore. It's all better left to younger people that have no concept of why anyone would ever give anything another read, watch or listen to search for nuance or subtlety where there is a firehose of "novelty" you can only binge from, 24/7... with your AI algorithms lighting your path for you. New art used to be inspired by the beloved art that predated it. Now new art only gets popular if bonded to viral meme, and memes come and go too quickly to form a long-term memory, let alone become beloved. Without enough time and scarcity to culturally sink in, or form part of a communal human experience, it's all just interchangeable noise. Your brilliance as any sort of artist isn't even a statistical lotto ticket anymore. The uncertainty that AI has created in this realm is the nail in the coffin, and ensures that only existing or oligarchically-contrived brand will ever matter from here on out. The sad thing is, nothing on the output side is lost here; virtually endless hot and cold running art forever. It's only the hard-won pleasures of striving that have been replaced with a simulacrum.

The NEUROMANCER movie still needs to be done. No one has seen the orbital station. Or Wintermute. But you can't do it in black and white and cheap, it needs to feature the most advanced in CGI technology, because CGI is essentially what the cyberspace morphed into. I wouldn't do it as a fully animated movie either, this would lack the "punk" in "cyberpunk".

The aphex twin and auteshire ❤

This guy's voice is insufferable. Crispin glover called and he wants he wants you to stop.

Yeah. The trailer for the Warpaint video was pretty underwhelming and conventional looking. He must have realized that their bassist was turning him into a complete wuss and decided to bail on her and an embarrassing POS project.

I would love to see a feature film from him one day, but it's highly unlikely that that'll ever happen, considering the current state of the film industry. Hollywood is too good for a talent as remarkable and as unique as Chris is.

Pronounced au-tech-re this is because the name is derived from audio technology research

Discovered him through Autechre. Hastings video store had these DVDs and used to rent them so much I just should've bpught them.

Chris Cunningham! Yeah!

That project w Grace Jones was interesting. I would guess inability to do what he wanted to do creatively was his issue and I don't blame him. Not everyone works well with 'the industry' and his work on a Neuromancer project and other failed projects prob led him away. I bet we will see some art installations and other projects along the line until the creative muse hits him... because when she does visit, none can resist.

"Au-te-kre" :D besides fantastic because i asked the same question for years now

I remember dropping my jaw when reading Cunningham was preparing to make The movie of the Cyberpunk classic Neuromancer. That would have been too good for the sh*tty current state of film industry. Too good to be true .

I’m pretty sure he filmed himself for the Rubber Johnny video. The cover at least is an amalgam of Chris’ various body parts, including what looks suspiciously like his hairy arsehole, cleverly composited together

It looks like he had access to AI. It´s amazing how advanced he was and still is. I hope he will be back.

He did go somewhat public with ‘Chris Cunningham Studio’. The website had a flash edit of what looked to be bizarre experiments (nothing I recognised from his past work). After about a year the website was gone.

He will have an Ai exhibition in LA

I've heard Auteshire is lovely to visit this time of year.

Ortesher?

I met him around ten years ago when I ran into Jenny Lee (who I had interviewed shortly before) in SXSW. There was a secret Julian Casablancas show and Lindberg was so excited to go. I ran along with them because I was just so starstruck and in awe that I was actually meeting a childhood hero (Cunningham, but I love Lindberg too). He was really nice and surprisingly softspoken and I wanted to film him giving 15 seconds of advice. He said yes but panicked the minute I put the camera on him because he was camera shy, he asked if he could record the audio instead. Wish I could find that file!

Chris works as VFX consultant for the film industry in London

Mr Cunningham, if youre out there, ive just introduced my early 20s kids to your stuff. If you ever get an opportunity you fancy, we will all be there with bells on. Thanks for your weird vision and razor sharp cuts.

I used to have all three of those DVDs but the Chris Cunningham disc is the only one I still have.

If you are a fan you aren't going to learn anything new here. If you wanna know what he's doing now; he's doing art installations.

Rubber Johnny is a masterpiece.

What's the little song at the end, thanks !

He also made a short experimental film called Flex in collaboration with Aphex Twin.