Kate Bush - The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Official Music Video

What this video is

Released May 1978 as the second single from Kate Bush's debut album 'The Kick Inside' (EMI), 'The Man with the Child in His Eyes' represented a deliberate artistic pivot following the theatrical strangeness of 'Wuthering Heights.' Bush wrote the song at age 13 and recorded it at 16 at AIR Studios under David Gilmour's guidance, giving it an unusually precocious emotional maturity. The video's radical minimalism — a…

Why it matters

A cornerstone document of late-1970s British art pop, demonstrating that the promotional music video could function as an intimate artistic statement rather than a performance showcase. The video's zero-cut, single-take structure is a formal outlier even within its own era, anticipating the…

The director

Keith Stuart MacMillan (b. Feb. 13, 1947), professionally known as 'Keef' or 'Marcus Keef,' studied photography at the Royal College of Art. He began his career circa 1968 as an album cover designer for Vertigo, Neon (RCA), and Nepentha Records, producing…