In the mid 2000s, Cunningham began doing music production work, and has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians.
He worked on films including Hardware (1990) and Dust Devil (1992) for Richard Stanley, Nightbreed (1990) for Clive Barker, and Alien3 (1992) for David Fincher.
In 2005, Cunningham released the short film Rubber Johnny as a DVD accompanied by a book of photographs and drawings.
Rubber Johnny, a six-minute experimental short film cut to a soundtrack by Aphex Twin remixed by Cunningham, was shot between 2001 and 2004.
Shot on DV night-vision, it was made in Cunningham's own time as a home movie of sorts, and took three and half years of weekends to complete.
[15] In 2005, Cunningham played a 45-minute audio visual piece performed live in Tokyo and Osaka in front of 30,000+ fans over the two nights at the Japanese electronic music festival Electraglide [ja].
It features remixed, unreleased and brand new videos and music dynamically edited together into a new live piece spread over three screens.
The sound accompanying these images includes Cunningham's first publicly performed compositions interspersed with his remixes of other artist's work.
Chris Cunningham Live debuted as one of the headline attractions at Warp 20 in Paris on 8 May 2009 with other performances scheduled at festivals in UK, and a number of European cities later in the year.
In 2007, an excerpt from Flex was shown in the Barbican's exhibition Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now curated by Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace and Joanne Bernstein.
[17] In the summer of 2008, due to scheduling conflicts with his feature film script writing he could not work on the rest of the album which was subsequently recorded by Geoff Barrow from Portishead.
[18] In 2008, Cunningham produced a fashion shoot for Dazed & Confused using Grace Jones as a model to create "Nubian versions" of Rubber Johnny.
[21][22] Cunningham has created photography and cover artwork for various people including Björk's "All Is Full of Love", Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy".
His commercials for companies and brands, include Gucci, Sony (PlayStation), Levi's, Telecom Italia, Nissan, and Orange.