Come to Daddy
From Videoville
artist: Aphex Twin
director: Chris Cunningham
label: Warp
commissioner: Steve Beckett
year: 1997
treatment
(excerpted)
Bathed in noise and static an amorphous shape with Aphex's features stretches out onto the pavement. As it rears itself up it screams like an injured animal being born, still somehow retaining an insane grin. It stands 7 foot tall now and its mouth is stretched wide open. It whips its head around and screams full blast into the face of the nearest bystander, which happens to be an old granny.
As the scream seems to go on forever so does the scene. With each intake of breath the scream becomes more intense and the camera moves closer. The Aphex thing screams right into the granny's face, almost touching it. We would film the old lady's face in a wind tunnel so that her face and mouth would distort from the blast of air. We cut between the two screaming faces as her wig flies off (the scream in the track made me think of Man Bites Dog.)
