'Rubber Johnny', the new short film by Chris Cunningham



"Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark"



Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK?s most imaginative filmmaker. Featuring music by Aphex Twin (AFX237 V7 from Drukqs), this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham?s first published book of original artwork.



"The primary objective with this video was to try and push the synchronisation aspects of my work to the limit. I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess. It was incredibly difficult to edit this video and find that line where it seems breakneck, but still flows and makes sense as a sequence. I would have to redo each shot about twenty times in order to find something that worked. It was closer to animation than editing and I had to create the video 2 frames at a time. Sometimes spending a day on just getting two frames to work to the music"







Chris Cunningham Biography



Chris Cunningham, one of the most influential filmmakers of the last decade, has been at the forefront of innovation and an inspiration for technological boundary-breaking world wide.



Cunningham first forged his relationship with Warp Records in 1995 with his debut promo ?Second Bad Vibel? for Autechre, and since has directed a score of mind-bending videos for the likes of Squarepusher, Bjork, Madonna, Portishead and most memorably, Aphex Twin.



The creepily hilarious ?Come to Daddy? (1997) and bootilicious ?Windowlicker? (1999) Aphex videos have both been showered with accolades, but deemed too darkside for.......
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