2003
Volume 2 of the Director's Label Series
Chris Cunningham has the least amount of output in the Director's Label series, tellingly, he also has the least amount of work outside of this DVD release. Other members, like Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Johnathan Glazer and Mark Romanek, have already delved into feature filmmaking, while Cunningham seems to have done little but another short film with music by Aphex Twin. While Cunningham has mentioned at screenings an interest in making some kind of "children's story," there is little evidence that the man is currently working on anything at all. Considering the technical achievements and intense creativity on this 3 year old DVD release, that is something that filmgoers should hope will soon change. Whether it's Cunningham's horrifying rendition of Aphex Twin's "Come To Daddy," Bjork's hypnotic robot love story "All Is Full of Love" or Aphex Twin's hilarious (yet disgusting) "Windowlicker," the videos on this DVD never fail to surprise. Technically, they're fascinating little movies, each one fully realized in scope, wildly divergent in style and attitude. The short commercials for PS2 and Levi's Jeans are just as creative, disappointing only for their length. A brief view of Cunningham's installation piece "Flex" is here as well, serving not only to punish those who never knew of it's existence, clueing us in that somewhere, at some point, it was possible to see Cunningham create a film longer than 10 minutes. Wheras Michel Gondry was, according to him, able to utilize the success of his Director's Label volume to help in completion of his Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cunningham continues to remain an enigmatic filmmaker. While this volume serves as an excellent introduction and capsulation of his work, we here at the Factual Opinion have to say that, for now at least, we have a new favorite filmmaker: it's just too bad he doesn't have any films for us to watch.
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