Kate Bush - The Infant Kiss (fan-made video)

Note: Better quality version first video response




I made this video back in 1984 on VHS as a project to learn how to edit videotape. The song "The Infant Kiss" on Kate Bush's album "Never for Ever" was based on the film "The Innocents". I managed to get a tape of the film from TV, and made this video. The video appeared on a fan video collection I edited later and it wound up posted on YouTube by Gaffahead.

I've never been happy with the quality of the versions that are in circulation - the pan'n'scan wasn't fair to the brilliant Cinemascope of the original film, so I made this version.

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[MadameChristie]

I wonder what Kerr felt and thought about that kiss...it must have been a hard scene to film...

[k8fan]

@MadameChristie I've never read an interview where she talked about it.

[thisters]

Thanx K8fan...wow amazing! Really interesting...I have to see the movie now. :)

[k8fan]

@thisters Please do. It's a great film and the video doesn't do justice to the beautiful cinematography.

[thisters]

Did Kate write this with the movie in mind? It fits so well....

[k8fan]

@thisters Kate was inspired to write the song by the film. I learned about this from an interview, then obtained a copy of the movie and made a video to the song to learn how to edit.

[daringdavie]

You sure learned your craft beautifully, I love the way Deborah Kerr's flings her head back (at 2:21) in absolute dispair, as the music surges to a crescendo and kate sing that it "gets too much". It just all works really well. . . This album always reminds me of being about 15, being a moody, hormonal teenager, spending my time in my bedroom smoking out the window listening to Kate Bush. Thanks for helping me remember.

[anoldprestonian]

This is amazing...very well done! Thanks so much for posting.

[AntiSocialChannel85]

Great video.

[comactortony]

A Nurse who had been in Labor & Delvery for 10 yrs told me that the infant kiss is refering to something nurses actually have to counsel new moms about. it is not uncommon for a woman to have an orgasm the FIRST time they breast feed. because the only other time they have been suckled was in the heat of passsion w/ the boyfriend, so they FEEL GUILT & fears of insest! ("this is a baby I sholdnt feel this!)but,its a perfectly natural rection. so the 'kiss' is breast feeding &its flood of emotions

[comactortony]

WELL DONE! The Innocents has always been one of my favorite horror films! and I too have been a BUSHHEAD since high school. In fact, I made a 'KATE BUSH' video too! It was for an ANIMATION class in college. I did it to MOVING (from her first album The Kick Inside) a girlfriend of mine was with the chicago ballet & she choreographed a beautiful dance for the film & NO Bushheads, she did not 'swim' around like a whale! *wink*

[marsskydiver]

@k8fan u rule

[RaikenXion]

I cudnt sleep and flicked over to Film4 and this was on and I just caught that kiss scene and thought did I just see what I think I saw, so I looked it up on here lol. Im watching it now totally Intrigued, the only film Ive saw do sumthin similar to this is "Birth" with Nicole Kidman.

[Drellauk]

Beautiful song and what an amazing visual!

Perfect marriage...great work:)

[FatherPeru]

The essence of straight shota

[Stevie1932]

Absolutely brilliant! I knew that Kate had based the song on the film 'The Innocents' and you have caught the mood in a beautifully sensitive way. Thank you for all the work that must have involved and for sharing it here.

[Citylight74]

After I have seen this, I will search for the movie and watch.

[LunaSeaSane]

I think it's a brilliant video. Disturbing, in a similar way to the song.