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"Rubber Johnny"

"Johnny is a hyperactive, shape-shifting mutant child, kept locked away in a basement. With only his feverish imagination and his terrified dog for company, he finds ways to amuse himself in the dark. Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK’s most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring music by legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 40 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham’s first published book of original artwork."

[URL]http://boingboing.net/images/rubber1.jpg[/URL]
[URL]http://boingboing.net/images/rubber2.jpg[/URL]

This looks absolutely mind altering. Cant wait to see it...

[edit] Heard about it a while back, but first time I've seen other stills.

O_O

nonononono that is rather weird O_O

What section would you have to flicking through to come across that!?!

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> He's a handsome little blighter!

Wonderful prosthetics. Anyhoo, that first pic is the DVD cover. The title will be above the, well, whatever the hell is going on there in the white space.

See, I've just managed to condition you beforehand, so it's not a shock when you're clicking through a rack of DVD's. ;D

He's a handsome little blighter!

Yeah, thanks for that.

I was expecting claymation or something.

Can't you spring up some warnings or something?

monkey_man wrote:
> Jesus Christ, there is no God:
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> [URL]http://www.rubberjohnny.tv/[/URL]

The original short inspiration is on [URL]http://www.drukqs.net/[/URL] Letter "P" in "aphex twin". But it's really, really twisted and nasty.

Jesus Christ, there is no God:


[URL]http://www.rubberjohnny.tv/[/URL]

Damn those pics are freakish.

monkey_man wrote:
> JEsus, arghhhhhhhh, get it away! GET IT AWAY!

Sorry, probably not the best thing to spring on people first thing in the morning.

[URL]http://mstation.org/chris_cunningham_rubber_j.php[/URL] More info, no pics (I promise)

"The bass line in the track sounded like an elastic band to me and so I got the idea of someone shapeshifting like a piece of chewing gum, whilst raving. The title Rubber Johnny just seemed to fit the character and shapeshifting idea really well. It has nothing whatsoever to do with condoms, although it is a bonus that Rubber Johnny is a term that we used in the playground. It is very English, I suppose"

Ogh.