Mea Culpa

United States

1981

5 Min

Black and White

English

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DIR Bruce Conner

Synopsis

In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music from their pioneering “sampling” album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” (1981).

Director

Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner was born in McPherson, Kansas, in 1933 and studied art at Wichita University, the University of Nebraska, the Brooklyn Art School, and the University of Colorado. Moving to San Francisco in 1957, Conner became involved with the Beatniks. He continues to live and work in San Francisco.

Conner first made a name for himself in the 1950s with assemblages/sculptures of found objects. In the late 1950s, he began making short movies that proved highly influential and established him as one of the seminal figures in the history of independent, avant-garde filmmaking. Conner’s first film, A Movie (1958), a visual collage created from bits of B-movies, newsreels, and other footage, has been listed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Connor was also responsible for Crossroads (1976), produced with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, which turned the destructive and sinister atom-bomb test in Bikini Atoll into elegiac visual… read more

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Mark Ayala

9Mar10

An amazing film that compliments the music of the album perfectly as it's almost a film made under the same techniques as the music. Just how bits and pieces of non-music are used to create the song, the video is altered fragments of science class film reels which are made into avant-garde cinema. Need to watch it? Here's a link: http://bushofghosts.wmg.com/watch_video.php