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Chris Cunningham is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Character Technical Supervisor, Editor, Tattoo Designer, Modeling and Special Effects British born on 15 october 1970 at Reading (United-kingdom)

Chris Cunningham

Chris Cunningham
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Birth name Christopher Cunningham
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 october 1970 (54 years) at Reading (United-kingdom)

Chris Cunningham is a British video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.

Cunningham has primarily directed music videos for ambient music and electronica acts such as Autechre and Aphex Twin. He has also created art installations and directed short movies. He was approached to direct a movie version of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, but nothing came of early discussions. In the 2000s, Cunningham began doing music production work. He has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians.

The video collection The Work of Director Chris Cunningham was released in November 2004 as part of the Directors Label set. This DVD includes selected highlights from 1995–2000.

Best films

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(2001)
(Special Effects) Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection
(1997)
(Character Technical Supervisor) Alien³
Alien³
(1992)
(Special Effects) Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
(1995)
(Special Effects)

Usually with

Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley
(2 films)
David Giler
David Giler
(2 films)
Walter Hill
Walter Hill
(2 films)
John Payne
John Payne
(1 films)
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Chris Cunningham (12 films)

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Actor

Grace
Grace (2009)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jordan Ladd, Gabrielle Rose, Samantha Ferris, Serge Houde, Malcolm Stewart, Serge Houde
Roles Technicien de laboratoire
Rating52% 2.6028252.6028252.6028252.6028252.602825
The film opens with Michael and Madeline attempt to conceive. It is soon apparent that they have succeeded. Michael's parents arrive for dinner: a vegan meal prepared by a now visibly pregnant Madeline. Michael's domineering mother Vivian grimaces at the food and suggests - in a passive aggressive fashion - that a more conventional diet would be healthier for the unborn baby. The conversation turns to the couple's unsuccessful search for a suitable obstetrician. Madeline has rejected Vivian's preferred doctor and friend, Dr. Sohn. Instead she has decided to consult Patricia, her old friend and midwife at an independent clinic. Vivian does not hide her disapproval. Though Michael is also skeptical, the couple visit the clinic for a tour. They meet with Patricia, who describes her natural approach to birthing. Madeline reveals that she and Michael have conceived twice before, but both pregnancies were unsuccessful.
Simon Says
Simon Says (2006)
, 1h27
Directed by William Dear
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Actors Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes, Bruce Glover, Blake Lively Reynolds, Kelly Vitz
Roles Young Simon
Rating42% 2.113832.113832.113832.113832.11383
Five teenagers — Kate (Margo Harshman), Zack (Greg Cipes), Vicky (Carrie Finklea), Riff (Artie Baxter), and Ashley (Kelly Vitz) — are on their way to pan for gold during Spring Break when they make a wrong turn and wind up at a grave site. They encounter two strange older men, who warn them to return home, saying there have been murders in the area. The teens insist, asking for directions, and are directed towards a large store and told that it is 'town'. Making their way into town, four of the teens head inside the store while Zack puts gas in their van. Inside, the four teens meet the brothers Simon (Crispin Glover), who flees from them, and Stanley.

Director

Scriptwriter

Producer

Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection (1997)
, 1h49
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott
Roles Character Technical Supervisor
Rating61% 3.0996353.0996353.0996353.0996353.099635
Two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, military scientists on the outer space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. They extract the embryo of an Alien queen that had been growing inside her at the time of her death, raise it, and collect its eggs for further use. The Ripley clone is kept alive for further study. As a result of her DNA being mixed with the Alien's DNA during the cloning process, she develops enhanced strength and reflexes, has acidic blood and a psychic link with the Aliens.

Editor

Costume and makup

Death Machine
Death Machine (1995)
, 2h
Directed by Stephen Norrington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films set in the future, Dystopian films, Robot films
Actors Brad Dourif, Ely Pouget, William Hootkins, Richard Brake, John Sharian, Andreas Wisniewski
Roles Tattoo Designer
Rating56% 2.802752.802752.802752.802752.80275
Death Machine is set in the near future of 2003. The film opens in a demolished roadside diner, everyone inside has been slaughtered by a malfunctioning secret project codenamed Hardman. It was manufactured by Chaank, a megacorporation that produces military hardware. Public outcry ensues and Cale is introduced as the company's investigating Chief Executive.

Visual effects

Nightbreed
Nightbreed (1990)
, 1h42
Directed by Clive Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Horror, Romance
Themes Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Anne Bobby, Hugh Quarshie, Doug Bradley
Roles Modeling
Rating64% 3.2490253.2490253.2490253.2490253.249025
Aaron Boone dreams of Midian, a city where monsters are accepted. At the request of girlfriend Lori Winston, Boone is seeing psychotherapist Dr. Phillip K. Decker, who convinces Boone that he committed a series of murders. In reality, Decker is a masked serial killer who has murdered several families. Decker drugs Boone with LSD disguised as lithium and orders Boone to turn himself in. Before he can, Boone is struck by a truck and taken to a hospital. There, Boone overhears the rants of Narcisse who seeks to enter Midian. Narcisse, convinced that Boone is there to test him, gives Boone directions before tearing the skin off his face. Boone makes his way to Midian, a city standing under a massive graveyard. Once there, he encounters supernatural creatures Kinski and Peloquin. Kinski says that they should bring him below, but Peloquin refuses to allow in a normal human. Boone claims to be a murderer, but Peloquin smells his innocence and attacks him. Boone escapes, only to run into a squad of police officers led by Decker. Boone is gunned down by the police after Decker tries to get him to turn himself in. Due to Peloquin's bite, he comes back to life in the morgue. When he returns to Midian, he finds Narcisse there and he is inducted into their society by Dirk Lylesburg, leader of the Nightbreed. In an initiation ceremony, he is touched by the blood of their deity Baphomet.

Team

Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
, 1h41
Directed by Spike Jonze
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Max Records, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Paul Dano, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara
Roles Thanks
Rating66% 3.3483053.3483053.3483053.3483053.348305
The film begins with Max, a lonely nine-year-old boy with an active imagination whose parents are divorced, wearing a wolf costume and chasing his dog. His older sister, Claire, does nothing when her friends crush Max's snow fort (with him inside) during a snowball fight. Out of frustration, Max messes up her bedroom and destroys a frame that he had made for her. At school, Max's teacher teaches him and his classmates about the eventual death of the sun. Later on, his mother, Connie, invites her boyfriend Adrian to dinner. Max becomes upset with his mother for not coming to the fort he made in his room. He wears his wolf costume, acts like an animal, and demands to be fed. When his mother gets upset, he throws a tantrum and bites her on the shoulder. She yells at him and he runs away, scared by what has transpired. At the edge of a pond Max finds a small boat that he boards.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
, 2h26
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Environmental films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, Ashley Scott, William Hurt
Roles Special Effects
Rating71% 3.5985153.5985153.5985153.5985153.598515
In the late 21st century, global warming has flooded coastlines, drastically reducing the human population. There is a new class of robots called Mecha, advanced humanoids capable of emulating thoughts and emotions. David (Haley Joel Osment), a prototype model created by Cybertronics of New Jersey, is designed to resemble a human child and to display love for its human owners. They test their creation with one of their employees, Henry Swinton (Sam Robards), and his wife Monica (Frances O'Connor). The Swintons' son, Martin (Jake Thomas), was placed in suspended animation until a cure can be found for his rare disease which is caused by the Sinclair virus. Initially frightened of David, Monica eventually warms enough to him to activate his imprinting protocol, which irreversibly causes David to have an enduring childlike love for her. He is also befriended by Teddy (Jack Angel), a robotic teddy bear, who takes it upon himself to care for David's well-being.
Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd (1995)
, 1h36
Directed by Danny Cannon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Clonage, Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Superhero films, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Louise Delamere, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen
Roles Special Effects
Rating56% 2.801942.801942.801942.801942.80194
By the 2080s, much of Earth has become an uninhabitable wasteland. While some humans manage to survive in the wasteland, the majority of humanity resides in huge Mega-Cities with populations of tens of millions, where the traditional justice system has been replaced by a corps of Judges whose role combines those of police officer, judge, jury, and executioner. The most dedicated "Street Judge" in Mega-City One is Joseph Dredd (Sylvester Stallone), who assists rookie Judge Hershey (Diane Lane) in ending a block war. Herman "Fergee" Ferguson (Rob Schneider), a hacker recently released from prison, is caught in the firefight and hides inside a food dispensing robot, only to be arrested by Dredd and again sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Brave
Brave (1994)
, 50minutes
Directed by Richard Stanley
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Richard Stanley, Caroline O'Neill, Christopher McHallem
Roles Special Effects
Rating70% 3.526273.526273.526273.526273.52627
The movie tells the story in pictures accompanied by the entire Brave record minus "Paper Lies" and the final song "Made Again". On the recording, it is left ambiguous as to whether the main character commits suicide in the end. In the film, she does. Thus, "Made Again", which concludes the story on the record as a happy ending of sorts, is not included.
Alien³
Alien³ (1992)
, 1h54
Directed by David Fincher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Prison films, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann
Roles Special Effects
Rating63% 3.199773.199773.199773.199773.19977
A fire starts aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco. The computer launches an escape pod containing Ellen Ripley, the young girl Newt, an unidentified man, and the damaged android Bishop. All four are in cryonic stasis. The ship's scans of the crew's cryotubes show an Alien facehugger attached to one of the crew members. The pod crash-lands on Fiorina "Fury" 161, a foundry facility and penal colony inhabited by male inmates with "double-Y" chromosome patterns and histories of physical and sexual violence. After some inmates recover the pod and its passengers, an Alien facehugger approaches the prison dog.
Hardware
Hardware (1990)
, 1h33
Directed by Richard Stanley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Superhero films, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, Iggy Pop, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Mark Northover
Roles Special Effects
Rating59% 2.9500952.9500952.9500952.9500952.950095
A nomad scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy steps away, Mo buys the robot parts from the nomad and sells all but the head to Alvy. Intrigued by the technology, Alvy begins to research its background. Mo and Shades visit Jill, Mo's reclusive girlfriend, and, after an initially distant welcome where Jill checks them with a Geiger counter, Mo presents the robot head as a Christmas gift. Jill, a metal sculptor, eagerly accepts the head. After Shades leaves, Mo and Jill argue about a government sterilization plan and the morality of having children. Later, they have sex, while being unknowingly watched by their foul-mouthed, perverted, voyeuristic neighbor Lincoln Weinberg via telescope.