Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (Director's Cut)

What this video is

Released in October 1997, 'Come to Daddy' emerged at the apex of the UK IDM and drill-and-bass movement centred on Warp Records. The video crystallised a broader cultural anxiety about urban decay, post-Thatcher council estate Britain, and the encroachment of media technology into everyday life — literalised by a derelict television as the vector of supernatural threat. Its Thamesmead location carried explicit…

Why it matters

A canonical text of drill-and-bass and digital hardcore video aesthetics, 'Come to Daddy' (Director's Cut) is among the most studied music videos of the 1990s. Pitchfork ranked it the number one video of the decade. It established body horror and brutalist location shooting as viable registers…

The director

Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is an English video artist and music video director. Early in his career he worked as a comic book artist for 2000 AD. He later worked in special effects on films including Judge Dredd (1995), after which Stanley…