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Acclaimed director Chris Cunningham has almost finished another short film, which features his own music.

He produced some of The Horrors’ Mercury Prize-nominated album Primary Colours and has worked with Aphex Twin, Portishead and Madonna in the past.

An early version of the film was based around music from Squarepusher but Cunningham has since created his own score to accompany the visuals.

6 Music News paid a visit to the office of Warp Records, home to one of the models used in the film, which is being released on the film arm of the company.

It is pictured above but to see it in full take a look at our picture gallery of the Warp headquarters.

Warp Boss Steve Beckett described the prop: "It’s this incredible Jake and Dinos[Chapman]-style life-size model of a girl, but it’s got her innards and intestines completely ripped open."

"This girl basically gets an alien experience which ends in a lot of blood and violence, as you'd imagine with Chris Cunningham."

Warp founder Steve Beckett

Spectral Musicians is expected to be just as shocking as his famed Rubber Johnny, a six minute experimental short film released in 2005, cut to music by Aphex Twin.

As for the film’s plot, Beckett gave us a small insight: "This girl basically gets an alien experience which ends in a lot of blood and violence, as you’d imagine with Chris Cunningham."

The doll was used in a scene where alien beings come down and decimate a girl in approximately seven seconds.

According to Beckett, Spectral Musicians is near completion.

"It’s pretty much finished, but it just needs a few frames of special effects on it, so it’s when he gets round to it. I think he’s stalling until he gets a feature out before he releases another short," he said.

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