Chris Cunningham has created art installations and directed short movies.
24 Facts About Chris Cunningham
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Chris Cunningham worked on a never completed movie adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
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Chris Cunningham's style is noted for its use of robotics, body horror and Mickey mousing.
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Chris Cunningham worked on comics including Aliens and Judge Dredd Megazine.
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Chris Cunningham worked on films including Hardware and Dust Devil for Richard Stanley, Nightbreed for Clive Barker, and Alien for David Fincher.
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For Kubrick, Chris Cunningham designed and supervised animatronic prototypes of David; the central robot child character.
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However, around this time Kubrick put the film on hold, with Chris Cunningham going on to pursue a career as a director.
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Chris Cunningham has had close ties to Warp Records since his first video for Autechre, "Second Bad Vilbel" in 1995 and Squarepusher's "Come On My Selector" in 1998, which received airplay on MTV's Amp and MTV's Chill Out Zone in Europe.
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Chris Cunningham directed Madonna's "Frozen" video which became an international hit and won the award for Best Special Effects at the 1998 MTV Music Video Awards.
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Chris Cunningham came out of a seven-year hiatus from making music videos to direct the video for "Sheena Is a Parasite" by the Horrors.
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However, because Neuromancer was due to be a big budget studio film, it is rumoured that Chris Cunningham pulled out due to being a first time director without final cut approval.
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Chris Cunningham felt that too much of the original book's ideas had been cannibalised by other recent films.
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The most recently rumoured version, to have been directed by Chris Cunningham, is definitely not happening.
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Chris Cunningham took a sabbatical from filmmaking to learn about music production and recording and to develop his own music projects.
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In 2005, Chris Cunningham released the short film Rubber Johnny as a DVD accompanied by a book of photographs and drawings.
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Rubber Johnny, a six-minute experimental short film cut to a soundtrack by Aphex Twin remixed by Chris Cunningham, was shot between 2001 and 2004.
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In 2005, Chris Cunningham played a 45-minute audio visual piece performed live in Tokyo and Osaka in front of 30,000+ fans over the two nights at the Japanese electronic music festival Electraglide.
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Chris Cunningham Live debuted as one of the headline attractions at Warp 20 in Paris on 8 May 2009 with other performances scheduled at festivals in UK, and a number of European cities later in the year.
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Chris Cunningham Live continued in June 2011, with performances in London, Barcelona, and Sydney, Australia.
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In December 2007 Chris Cunningham produced two tracks, "Three Decades" and "Primary Colours", for Primary Colours, the second album by the Horrors.
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Chris Cunningham travelled to Nashville to work with Donna Summer to record a brand new vocal for it.
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In November 2008, Chris Cunningham followed on with another photoshoot for Vice Magazine.
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Chris Cunningham was married to Warpaint's bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg in 2010.
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The video collection The Work of Director Chris Cunningham was released in November 2004 as part of the Directors Label set.