Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights - Official Music Video - Version 2

What this video is

Filmed in October 1977 and released in January 1978 alongside Kate Bush's debut single, this video was created entirely before the MTV era institutionalised the music video as a format. It is one of the earliest British examples of a promotional film treating dance choreography as the primary visual language of a pop single. Bush choreographed the movement herself to embody the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw — a…

Why it matters

A foundational document of British art pop and the pre-MTV promotional film tradition. The video established a template for the artist-as-sole-performer, dance-driven music video in which choreography carries narrative weight. Its literary source, gothic aesthetic, and theatrical performance style…

The director

Keith Stuart MacMillan (b. 1947), working under the pseudonym 'Keef' (and earlier 'Marcus Keef'), is a British photographer, album cover designer, and music video director. He studied photography at the Royal College of Art and began his career circa 1968,…