The Work Of Director / Chris Cunningham – DVD (Used)

Description

Author: Vanessa Eloy

Brand: Palm Pictures / Umvd

Format: Color

Release Date: 28-10-2003

Details: Amazon.caLike 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 Bjrk’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

UPC: 660200306922

EAN: 0660200306922

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood