Christopher Cunningham Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Chris Cunningham is a British video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.Cunningham has primarily directed music videos for ambient music and electronica acts such as Autechre and Aphex Twin. He has also created art installations and directed short movies. He was approached to direct a movie version of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, but nothing came of early discussions. In the 2000s, Cunningham began doing music production work. He has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians.The video collection The Work of Director Chris Cunningham was released in November 2004 as part of the Directors Label set. This DVD includes selected highlights from 1995–2000.
Onscreen actions and editing synchronised to the beat of a song
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It's funny how, especially in the last ten years, you hear people whining on about, 'Oh, not having to shoot on film is a bad thing.' But every time you think something is not going to be the same without that particular thing, like say the film stock or the lens you like, it's only a matter of time before there's a plug-in that can emulate it. It's fucking amazing. Whatever technique a puritanical filmmaker uses there will be plug-in that a fucking kid can use! I say good riddance to film because it's just a fucking pain in the arse. Just when things are getting good you have to reload the camera and carry these things which weigh the same as a box of fucking house bricks around a set. It's a nightmare.
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We did versions of it in six different languages, to go round the world. The German version was fucking hilarious, just really brutal. Everything sounded so aggressive and rude. The girl sounded like she was going to get out of the chair and stab you after she'd finished her monologue. [talking about his ad for Playstation, Mental Wealth]
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I love anatomy. I love the human form, I always have. That's why I got into painting and sculpting, that's why I got into doing prosthetics, that's why I got into making films about bodies. But the one thing that I hadn't been able to incorporate was sound. And that was my favorite love of all. And as soon as I started doing that in film, that was it for me.
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All I ever do is talk about films and then not make them. As a result I thought: just shut up about it - make a film then talk about it when it's done. But it's got to be something that I'm absolutely frothing about. After three or four years tinkering with other people's material I came to the conclusion that I just had to develop my own material from scratch.
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Lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. [2015].
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Was originally attached to direct a film adaptation of William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, but the project never came to fruition. Even though the adaptation had several directors considered, Gibson said that Cunningham was the one who can do it correctly. Cunningham has yet to direct a feature film.
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Edits most of his own work.
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Designed the sleeve artwork for Autechres EP, Anvil Vapre.
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His video for Björk's "All is Full of Love" was voted #26 in VH1's 100 Greatest Videos (Auguest 2007).
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His video for Madonna's "Frozen" was voted #22 in Slant magazine's Top-100 Videos. (19th January 2003).
$900,000
