Chris Cunningham Case Study

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CHRIS CUNNINGHAM CASE STUDY

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KEY INFORMATION

Cunningham first made a name for himself in the early 90s in the art departments, working with animation and robots.

The first music video that he directed was Autechre’s Second Bad Vilbel.

In 1992 he directed come to daddy which made him go big in the industry.

In the year 2000 Chris directed 2 short films

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MUSIC VIDEOSArtist/song Genre

CharacteristicsRelationship between video and lyrics

Voyeurism?Intertextuality?

PerformanceNarrativeConcept

Aphex TwinCome To Daddy

Genre- alternativeDark and abstract

No link between music video and lyrics

None It was half performance based and half concept based, there was no narrative based scenes in the music video.

MadonnaFrozen

Genre- alternative/popDark

No link between music video and lyrics

None It was half performance based and half concept based, there was no narrative based scenes in the music video.

BjorkAll is full of Love

Genre- alternativeAbstract

Robots are assumed to have no emotions but the robots kiss in the video

Voyeurism with robots

It is a mixture of all three.

LeftfieldAfrika Shox

Genre- alternativeDark

No link between music video and lyrics

None It is all narrative.