The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003) (V)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Directors:

Chris Cunningham
Lance Bangs

Release Date:

22 October 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Short | Music

Plot Keywords:

Music Video | Electronic Music | Experimental Film

Cast

Carl Antolin	...	Security guard (segment "Come on My Selector")
Aphex Twin	...	Himself (segments "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker")
Sigtryggur Baldursson	...	The Drummer (segment "Monkey Drummer")
Robert Ball	...	Boy (segment "Only You")
Stephen Ball	...	Body Double (segment "Only You")
Afrika Bambaataa	...	Car park attendant (segment "Afrika Shox")
William Baraket	...	Businessman (segment "Afrika Shox")
Björk	...	Herself (segments "All is Full of Love" and "Making All is Full of Love")
Gary Cruz	...	Homie (segment "Windowlicker")
Chris Cunningham	...	Himself (segment "Making All is Full of Love")
Brian Friedman	...	Lead Dancer (segment "Windowlicker")
Beth Gibbons	...	Herself (segment "Only You") (as Portishead)
Steve Gibbons	...	Extra (segment "Afrika Shox")
Misty Greer	...	Extra (segment "Afrika Shox")
Junix Inocian	...	Security guard (segment "Come on My Selector")
Coral Lorne	...	Old Lady (segment "Come to Daddy")
Madonna	...	Herself (segment "Frozen")
Nikki McInness	...	(segment "Come to Daddy")
Heather McKenney	...	Extra (segment "Afrika Shox")
Marcus Morris	...	Homie (segment "Windowlicker")
Takatsuna Mukai	...	Security guard (segment "Come on My Selector")
Rick Poli	...	Extra (segment "Afrika Shox")
Kiran Shah	...	(segment "Come to Daddy")
Al Stokes	...	Thin Man (segment "Come to Daddy")
Tony Tang	...	Security guard (segment "Come on My Selector")
Jim Tosney	...	Businessman (segment "Afrika Shox")

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

England, UK

Company:

Black Dog Films

Trivia:

On the video select menu on the DVD, the loud sounds are samples from each music video. When a video is selected the sounds stop one by one until only a sample of the chosen video remains.

Soundtrack:

Second Bad Vibel

Ultimately disappointing.

While I am very happy that some of Chris Cunningham's work is now available on DVD, the package is a bit disappointing. Extra features are thin on the ground, I wish there were some commentary and more behind the scenes info. There was a TV series called Mirrorball which had an episode devoted to Chris, why wasn't this on the DVD? This is especially irritating when some of the "All is Full of Love" making of is credited as being from the program. Despite the lack of extras I expected top notch video and audio. But in this area the DVD is also lacking, the video is not anamorphic and the audio is not encoded in 5.1. I'm sure there must be 5.1 tracks for some of the videos. Again I am very happy that this DVD has been released but it could have been so much more; it isn't very good value for 14 quid.