Kate Bush - Cloudbusting - Official Music Video

What this video is

Released in October 1985 as the second single from Kate Bush's landmark album Hounds of Love, 'Cloudbusting' drew directly from Peter Reich's 1973 memoir 'A Book of Dreams', which recounted his childhood with his father Wilhelm Reich — the controversial Austrian-American psychoanalyst and orgone energy theorist arrested by US federal agents in the 1950s. The video arrived at the apex of the MTV era, when the format…

Why it matters

A landmark of the British art-pop video canon and one of the most critically acclaimed music videos of the 1980s. It demonstrated that the pop promo could function as a fully realised short film with literary source material, professional feature-film collaborators, and genuine emotional narrative…

The director

Julian Doyle (b. July 1942, Paddington, London) is a British filmmaker, editor, and author. He trained at the London Film School and became a longtime collaborator on Monty Python films, including editing Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, and shooting…