A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
The Flying Lizards
Birthplace:
Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Born:
December 20, 1954
David Cunningham (born December 20, 1954) is a composer and music producer from Northern Ireland. Well-known for his commercial work under the pseudonym "the Flying Lizards" and for his production of Michael Nyman's music for Peter Greenaway's films including the Draughtsman's Contract and Drowning by Numbers. His work as producer, musician and composer has ranged across many genres of music and includes work for television, film, contemporary dance, and significant collaborations with visual artists and filmmakers. Since the release of his first album 'Grey Scale' in 1976 he has worked as a musician and record producer, engaging with an eclectic range of people and music. In the spring of 1978, David started working as a music producer for the first time, but with a very limited studio situation. His first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' record 'Money', an international hit in 1979. Over the last 20 years Cunningham has recorded everything from jazz bands to solo performers in his L-shaped recording-studio, as well as composing scores for films and adverts. Besides collaborating with artists such as Martin Creed, John Cage, Kathy Acker and Pansonic, Cunningham never stopped creating music of his own. Film and television work has included two long continuing collaborations - with William Raban and with Ken McMullen. Related work has included the production and treatment of sound for installation and broadcast artworks by Susan Hiller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Martin Creed, Amikam Toren, João Penalva, Ceal Floyer, Ian Breakwell, Gillian Wearing, Thomas Demand, Sam Taylor-Wood, John Latham, David Hall, Stephen Partridge, Bruce McLean, Tony Sinden, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza and many others.
Music:
1983 Ghost Dance
1984 Being and Doing
2013 Dark By Noon
Original Music Composer:
1983 Ghost Dance
1984 Being and Doing
1987 Terminus
2013 Dark By Noon
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
1983 Ghost Dance
1984 Being and Doing
1987 Terminus
1989 Ten Little Indians
2013 Dark By Noon
Sound Recordist:
1983 Ghost Dance
1984 Being and Doing
1987 Terminus
1989 Ten Little Indians
2006 Sick Film
2013 Dark By Noon
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.