Chris Cunningham - Windowlicker by Aphex Twin

This is the video and director we disliked most of all. Our reason for disliking the video and the style of it was because we found it disturbing, scary and we found that we didn’t understand the relevance of what the video was trying to portray.

In the video I have chosen which is Aphex Twin - Windowlicker, it is about the lead artist showing his love for himself. He is dressed in a white suite with a mask of himself which is over-exaggerated. He enters the frame in an extremely long limousine. He then gets out of the limousine and starts to dance. Two women are on the side of the road watching him, they enjoy his dancing and begin to turn into him, but with extremely hideous faces.
The video shows his love for himself but the women that turn into him throughout the video are ugly.

In this video it also shows that they are mocking R’n’B. Examples of this is when the lead artist is dancing and the DJ scratches link with what he is doing. This links to Goodwin’s 6 because the music links with the visuals.

The music itself was quite haunting because it was fairly repetitive and linked with the gross images from the women that were playing him.

Sarah and I found that the videos from Chris Cunningham were random and weird. We Didn’t like this style because again they link back to Michel Gondry’s style were it doesn’t have a story as such, just images and random music.