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Mea Culpa

1981 · 5 min

A hypnotic, austere collage where old classroom footage snaps and pulses against eerie sampled music, unsettling and oddly mesmerising.

Directed by
Bruce Conner
Genres
Music
Overview
In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music from their pioneering “sampling” album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” (1981).

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Directed by
Bruce Conner
Genres
Music
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • media
  • technology
  • obsession
  • identity
  • memory
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • found footage
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism3
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity7
Emotional weight4

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Genres
music
Directed by
Bruce Conner
Runtime
5 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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