Michael Kiwanuka - Bones

What this video is

Released in September 2012 as the fourth single from Kiwanuka's debut album Home Again, 'Bones' arrived during a fertile period for British soul music galvanised by the BBC Sound of 2012 award Kiwanuka had won earlier that year. The video's Asia-shot travelogue footage signalled his rapid international touring trajectory after a Top 5 UK album debut. The visual approach — warm filters, handheld documentary realism,…

Why it matters

The video is a key early document of the 2010s British neo-soul revival, capturing a moment when artists like Kiwanuka recontextualised classic soul aesthetics for a digital, post-Instagram world. The travelogue format — shooting on tour in Asia — broke from the performance-studio conventions of…

The director

Tom Henze is a director and cinematographer whose verified credits include the music videos Michael Kiwanuka: Tell Me a Tale (2011) and Michael Kiwanuka: Bones (2012), as well as cinematography work on the short film Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It…