Chris Cunningham is a British music video and film director known for his innovative visual style and surreal imagery. He got his start in the late 1980s doing animatronics and model making for films. His work on Judge Dredd caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who hired him to work on A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Cunningham is best known for his highly acclaimed and influential music videos for Aphex Twin and Björk, which featured bizarre and disturbing visuals. His video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love" won several awards and is in the Museum of Modern Art collection.

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2. Early Work In 1989, Cunningham worked at Spitting Image, building animatronic robot arms and sculpting caricatures for the TV series. In 1990 he worked on sculpture and animatronics for the film Alien 3.After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1994 film version Judge Dredd, Stanley Kubrick head hunted Cunningham[1] to design and supervise animatronic tests of the central robot child character in his version of the film A.I. Cunningham worked for over a year on the film A.I., before leaving to pursue a career as a director.Earlier work in film included model making, prosthetic make-up and concept illustrations for Hardware and Dust Devil with director Richard Stanley, as well as Nightbreed. In 1990–1992 he contributed the occasional cover painting and strip for Judge DreddMegazine, working under the pseudonym Chris Halls, the surname of his stepfather.

3. Music Video’sYou can watch his video for Aphex Twins – Windolicker by clicking here.You can watch his Video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love" by clicking here.The Windowlicker video could be counted as a short film, as its 10 minutes long. His video got banned from music channels for its controversial content. He uses erratic dance techniques to work with the video there are some screen grabs below. Cunningham has had close ties to Warp Records since his first production for Autechre. Videos for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker" are perhaps his best known. His video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love" won multiple awards, including an MTV music video award for Breakthrough Video and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. It was also the first ever music video to win a Gold Pencil at the D&AD Awards. It can still be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His video for Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" was nominated for the "Best Video" award at the Brit Awards 2000. He also directed Madonna's "Frozen" video.