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Some of the work created by director Chris Cunningham must have been
seen by practically everybody. One of the most common is the video of
Madonna, where she seems to be Frozen' in the desert. Then it goes on with
her and she becomes a person in all black with fully tattooed hands and she
looks like Mary Magdalene in Last Temptation of Christ. If one has the Play
Station advertisements one should be able to recall the Scottish girl with
eyes that are very far apart, and she also has pigtails. There is also
Come to Daddy' in an Aphex Twin video and that is totally out of the world
with an apocalyptic nightmare with a large group of kids. They all look
like old Aphex and are chasing the pensioner, and then a dog. Then that
monster comes crawling out of the television as was seen in Ringu or
Videodrome. This is a very skinny item with extremely sharp teeth and at
the same time very skinny with all the ribs showing off. This particular
number goes on like that. He also had a video on Bjork, and there the
character is a robot and then the robot seems to get into a weird sex act
with another of the same stupid robots. This act provided a lot of
entertainment to a lot people. Yet it seems that this class of producers
has now become acceptable enough in society. There are new videos coming
out with titles like The Work of Chris Cunningham or The Work of Michael
Gondry, or even The Work of Spike Jonze. (The Duke on The Work of Chris
Yet there is a lot of danger in Cunningham as a director of music
video, and his dreams on video with technology of the times border in the
realms of nightmares. They do not correspond to our normal thoughts and
seem to be a total jumble of confusing and disturbing images. These are
accompanied with sound full of digital noise and aggressi...