David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (1993)

Directed by

Matthew Rolston, Mark Romanek, David Mallet

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 03m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a documentary and music video hybrid that promotes David Bowie's 1993 album of the same name. It combines interview segments with performances and music videos. The film was made instead of a concert tour.

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What happens

David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise is a 1993 film accompanying the release of the David Bowie album of the same name. The primary purpose of the film was to remove the need of a tour to promote the album. It was directed by long time Bowie collaborator David Mallet, and was originally released in 1993 on VHS. The release is hybrid of documentary, music video film, and music video compilation. In this way it continues the lineage of several Bowie audio-visual formats: documentaries beginning with Cracked Actor (1975); music video films beginning with Love You till Tuesday (1969); and music video compilations beginning with Video EP (1983). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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