He started off in 1989 working for the animatronics section on Spitting Image, where he created robotic arms and sculptures for the popular television programme.
Four years later, and he's working for James Cameron's Alien 3 and then a year on he's working for Judge Dredd, creating comic book covers and sculptures for the motion picture.
Stanley Kubrick saw his work on Judge Dredd and insisted Cunningham to work for him on creating the robotic boy at the end of his motion picture, A.I, however, in 1995 Kubrick handed A.I over to Stephen Spielberg, but the film itself never got in to action until after Kubrick's death in 1999.
Aphex Twin's 'Come To Daddy' music video is probably his most famous piece, the video is a twisted, yet comical video featuring an old woman walking her dog and a load of children with the face of the band's lead singer.
A popular alternative band at the time he worked with was Placebo, who he produced a somewhat experimental video shooting the band performing underwater, which of course later on he used this technique in Portishead's Only you, but editing out the bubbles for a more surreal effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9TTuYKJvnA Placebo- 36 Degrees
In 1998 he worked with Madonna and created a video which changed the look of her at the time, no one had seen her in this light before. The video is very dark and has a blue sort of tint to it, the video also consists of a Gothic Witchy Persona Madonna in a black cape and hair, transforming into certain figures.
The song and video itself happen to me one of my favourites of all time.
The music video for Bjork's All is Full of Love featured two intimate robots and has won a series of awards in the meantime. The video itself is on permanent display in New York's, Museum of Modern Art.
Cunningham went on a hiatus for seven years from creating music videos until 2006 where he directed The Horror's Sheena is a Parasite. The video featured Samantha Morton as a manic in the video and starts to spew her intestines at the viewer towards the ending. The video was shot on a low budget but was sharply edited, however the video itself was instantly banned from MTV UK, based on the strobe lighting, not the contexts, Cunningham didn't want to edit out the lighting because he felt it would ruin the feel and effect of the video, I strongly agree with this.
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