The Auteurs - Back with the Killer Again (reconstruction)

What this video is

Released during the height of Britpop (1995–1996), this video sits at the movement's dark, antagonistic fringe rather than its lad-culture mainstream. The Auteurs, led by Luke Haines, were critically positioned as Britpop's most nihilistic and literary outliers. Commissioning Chris Cunningham — then still known primarily for special effects work rather than directing — for this video marks an early signal of the…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal early entry in Chris Cunningham's directorial career, predating his landmark Warp Records collaborations. As a rare surviving fragment of his pre-Aphex Twin output, it is of exceptional musicological and film-historical value. Demonstrates the crossover between UK indie rock…

The director

English music video director and video artist born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970. Early career spanned comic book illustration, prosthetics, and special effects work on films including Judge Dredd (1995), before Stanley Kubrick recruited him for A.I.…