AUTEUR DIRECTOR

Robyn Marshall-Dawson

Chris Cunningham

■ An English music/film director born in Reading in the late 70’s. Chris Cunningham has worked with artists such as Madonna, Bjork and The Aphex Twins.

Aphex Twins- Come to Daddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0

Madonna- Frozenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS088Opj9o0&ob=av2e

Bjork- All is full of love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA

Madonna – FrozenDirected by – Chris Cunningham

■ This music video clearly has elements horror. The music video is dark and gloomy portraying negative ideas to the audience about love. Chris Cunningham has used canted angles to show fear and uncertainty throughout the video. The editing is slow paced this connotes emotion and also allows the artist to connect to the audience. However as the speed of the music increases so does the pace of edit, this could be determined by the directors path of creativity. We can also see from this that one of Cunningham's individual style features is technical edits, for example when Madonna crashes to the ground and shatters, the pieces then turn into ravens.

Aphex TwinsDirected by – Chris Cunningham■Entropy plays a huge part in this music video. For example

you wouldn’t expect to see an elderly lady being attacked my children with the same faces. Although there are redundant elements too, such as rubbish being dumped in areas with high rise flats and kids causing havoc. Also canted angles to enhance displays of confusion and the use of a hand held camera shows sequences of horror, a clear style of Cunningham's’. Fast paced editing connotes action, fear and entropy, another individual style from Cunningham.

Bjork – All is full of LoveDirected By –Chris Cunningham

■ This music video is simply about Cunningham's impressive editing. The video is not fasted paced but we can clearly identify that Cunningham's’ auteur signature is technical. The video consists of a hidden meaning which conveys alternate messages to the audience and brings out the director artistic style. The videos contains entropy through the robots kissing as if they were humans and the idea of the whole video. There are close up of the main robot showing that Chris is still connecting the video to the audience in some way.

Chris Cunninghams Auteur Signature■ By analysing work by Chris Cunningham I have found that his Auteur signature is

based around horror, in both Aphex Twins and Madonna the audience is made to feel nervous and there are unexpected elements, a common feature of horror films.

■ His editing is in sync with the music, for example in Apex twins when the music slows down the speed the children skip is also slow. All three of these videos show impressive technical features like when Madonna turns into many birds.

■ Cunningham also likes to use canted angles to connote messages, maybe love or fear. ■ Cunningham- sum up■ Technical Canted angles■ Horror music+speed■ Entropy Audience