Part 1:
In part one of mirrorball with Chris Cunningham, he reveals several interesting points about his work which shed light on what would otherwise be considered a rather dark topic.
He starts the video with a brief background to his music career, relating a lot of his talent to spending time with his fathers speakers,
"I find that sound is what activates my imagination really." 0:55
This would make it seems that he has a rather natural talent for crossing sound with the visual, resulting in very smooth transitions within his music videos. It is possible that a lot of the intertextual references such as concerning politics and sexualization (See window licker video) seen in his videos are second nature in part with his natural thinking process.
He later confirms this by saying,1
"The dark thing is something thats really something other people pick up on, you know what I mean? Its certainly not my idea of dark" 2:36
This shows that while the points he puts across in his videos may well be intentional, the reason the go so well with the flow of the music is related to the way he thinks. This shows a possibly interesting development of how the human mind is evolving in how it thinks in coordination to the rapidly developing rate of technology and media. In essence music videos are almost becoming second nature.
A possible downfall he admits to is that sometimes his ideas might be too grand to pull off,
"With Music videos its like 50% coming up with an idea and 50% trying to do it as good as you can in a very limited amount of time you have." 1:38
Obviously a lot of hard work goes into his creations, however in his own admittance trying to for fill his imaginations goal hard especially when managing time. This leads me to think that when coming up with an idea, I need to evaluate how much time I need to create and how much time I have to create it by.
The children seen in the music video demonstrated (Aphex twin - come to daddy) shows intertextual reference concerning how people are like children obeying their commander, television programming. 3:14 the television set screams, "Come to daddy" to the clone, adult faced children.
I think this interesting point raised by the artist. While being seduced into watching the video from the interesting use of music, you are ironically being drawn into the same trap as the children in the video, by watching you are obeying the master, the director. This is probably in some ways a point made by the Chris to say you are listening and obeying him.
