Chris Cunningham has been off the radar for a very, very long time.

His promo shorts for the likes of Aphex Twin and Björk are the stuff of legends, and just when everybody thought he would be the next big thing in cinema, he totally  fell off the grid. There were stories of him ‘consulting’ on movie sets, dozens of ‘abandoned projects’ (like Chris directing the film version of “Neuromancer”) and in 2006, he released the video for “Sheena is a Parasite” by The Horrors after discovering them on MySpace. Then in 2008, Dazed & Confused Magazine took a stab in the dark asked him if he would like to meet Grace Jones. He did.

Now in 2009, it looks like we’re finally going to see more new work. There’s a ‘best of’ book in the making and, apparently, two movies in the pipeline.

Quoted from Vice:

What’s the book?

It’s a book of my own photography and stills from films, all taken by me over the last ten years really.

Wow. When’s it coming out?

I think I’ve got to get a couple of feature films finished first. There’s one I’m working on now that you could loosely describe as a horror. Actually talking about this reminds me of that scene in American Werewolf in London when he changes into the werewolf in the front room. That really shocked me. I think it was because it was shot in a brightly lit, stark front room and he’s naked and although there’s something really shocking happening in it there’s a sexual element to it.

After the jump: NSFW images, videos and the boy with the chicken arsehole.

Click here to see the Vice article and the VERY NSFW new Cunningham imagery.

Cunningham classics:

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Rubber Johnny

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Flex (art installation)

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Björk – All is full of love

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Aphex Twin – Window Licker

Aahhhh. Look at it, nestling nicely in between the best of current design and illustration. All you need to do now, is snatch it up.

Starting today (August 5 – 2008), FACE EVERYBODY AND RULE, the first official KNOTORYUS book, will be available at the awesome TOYKYO store in Ghent.

Back cover.

Inside preview.

More previews and shop info after the jump.

+  The DeepretendingnottoknowanythingaboutLGFinterview! 

Toykyo-shop:
Hoogpoort 11
9000 Ghent – Belgium

info@toykyo.be

Tell ‘em to put a signed copy aside for you

tel +32(0) 473 990 509
tel +32(0) 499 417 938

So here it is:

The DeepretendingnottoknowanythingaboutLGFinterview.

What’s the book about?

LGF: Photography, illustrations and ideas that came out as drawings.

When I first read the name, I thought you were Russian.

LGF: Haha. No. I see many twisted frowns when people try to read “KNOTORYUS” out loud. Thus far, only one guy ever got it right without even blinking. He was pretty fried, though. Maybe that’s what did it.

But you do have good taste?

LGF: Who says Russians don’t have good taste? Aside from borsjt, maybe. And those male ice-skaters with way too much cleavage. What’s up with that?

There’s a rather disturbing drawing of someone’s balls being served on a plate. They looked old. Who’s got old balls then?

LGF: It’s a play on the ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’ cliché. You can imagine those balls belong to your annoyingly successful ex-lover, your boss or that guy on TV who just won’t shut up. These KNOTORYUS balls are for you.

What’s the best time ‘o’ day to flick through FACE EVERYBODY AND RULE?

LGF: 3 A.M. After you’ve been lying awake for hours. Your eyes are burning and the back of your brain is buzzing like an old fridge. Flick through our book, turn off the lights and let it all sink in. Aaaaah…sweet dreams.

More on Toykyo:

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Everything you have heard is true…

KNOTORYUS is publishing its first book. More info and images after the jump.

It’s called: “Face Everybody And Rule” and it will be dropping at selected stores next week. We’ll let you know when and where. More previews to come.