Chris Cunningham videos are one of those annoying reminders that even though it's great that media has been democratized (to a certain degree) and we can do things like sift the good videos from the bad, but still... This looks so much better at higher resolution.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'rubber johnny, chris cunningham' to 'rubber johnny, chris cunningham, aphex twin, alien, creepy, 00s, scary, green, nightshot' - edited by Eklek

song is Simian Mobile Disco's 'Hustler', pretty big club track in '07.

hadn't seen this promo; owes a little bit to Mr. Cunningham's parody masterpiece... http://www.videosift.com/video/Aphex-Twin-Windowlicker-by-Chris-Cunningham-1035-NSFW

original video for this song was pretty great... hmmm, I thought it was on here... guess I'll sift it

all the guy fawkes masks reminds me of the Aphex Twin video where all the kids have the aphex twin face...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Aphex-Twin-Come-to-Daddy-directed-by-Chris-Cunningham

This a Mark Romanek music video. The DVD "The Work of Director Mark Romanek" has a discussion of how this video was made. It is part of series of DVDs about music video directors. The other directors in the series are: Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and Stephane Sednaoui.

Wikipedia has lists for each director's music videos. Here's the one for Mark Romanek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek

submitted a chris cunningham advert; thought you'd like ta check it out http://www.videosift.com/video/Chris-Cunningham-air-swimming-ad-for-BMW

I found a couple more links:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/14680-interview-chris-cunningham

http://www.spannered.org/film/637/

*promote

Sorry, Chris Cunningham's short film "Rubber Johnny" is already on the Sift. The original still works.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rubber-Johnny

*discard

Robot designs, and directed by, Chris Cunningham.

many thank michie... i'd like to thank all the hardworking gold farmers of Beijing, who toiled day and night finding new Chris Cunningham videos and crazy Scandinavian/Japanese band promos that barely made it out of the queue... they're the real heroes here, not me.

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“congrats on your Gold ! ”

This is a Mark Romanek music video. It is one of the music videos featured on “The Work of Director Mark Romanek” DVD.

What’s different about this video from the other Mark Romanek music videos is that Weezer and Romanek fought during the shoot. In all the other interviews on the DVD, bands gushed about what great friends they’d become with Romanek. Many of them put their trust in his vision and were very happy with the results.

Also, interesting is the little joke Romanek threw in: a florescent sign “weerez”, instead of “weezer.” The band later ended up doing t-shirts with the misspelling.

You have seen many of Romanek music videos. Wikipedia has a thorough list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek

About “El Scorcho””

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Scorcho

The DVD series also includes the following music video directors: Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jonathan Glazer, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Stephane Sednaoui. Some of them have crossed over into feature films. Each DVD is set up a little differently.


*save

Koichiro Tsujikawa is my 'modern short film' hero, along with Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham.

http://www.tsujikawakoichiro.com/

ties 'all is full of love' as my favorite chris cunningham thing ever. i have it on vhs, dvd and a high quality mpeg, in case the google vid ever dies

absolutely brilliant as a commentary on rap videos excess, pop culture, and our animal nature. brutal!

(this video has always been disappointing to me. it starts off looking like something cool will happen, and then blah. everything in the song is so visually inspiring it makes me feel like this video is way too simple and subtle. could atleast have had the girl smoking a cigarette or something, as an ode to how cool beth is... anything!... someone in the crew should've called chris cunningham)

p.s. I hadn't seen this live one before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzananVefh0

I love Leftfield so much (damn shame they split up)...here's one of their best music videos (directed by Chris Cunningham) - note: Africa Bambaata is the guy who asks "Do you need a hand?" at 4:15.