David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (film)

For the album which the film is named after, see Black Tie White Noise. For the song which the film is named after, see Black Tie White Noise (song).

Black Tie White Noise
The cover of the video collection, showing a 1993-era picture of David Bowie above his name and the title, "Black Tie White Noise" set on a black and white background
Original VHS Video Cover
Directed byDavid Mallet (main film)
Matthew Rolston ("Miracle Goodnight")
Mark Romanek ("Jump They Say" & "Black Tie White Noise")
Produced byLana Topham & Paul Flattery
StarringDavid Bowie
Edited byLauren Harris
Music byDavid Bowie
Production
company
BMG Video
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
Running time
63 minutes
Black Tie White Noise
Video by
David Bowie
Released1993
David Bowie chronology
Bowie – The Video Collection
(1993) 		Black Tie White Noise
(1993) 		Best of Bowie
(2002)

David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise is a 1993 film accompanying the release of the David Bowie album of the same name. The primary purpose of the film was to remove the need of a tour to promote the album.[1] It was directed by long time Bowie collaborator David Mallet, and was originally released in 1993 on VHS.[2][3]

The release is hybrid of documentary, music video film, and music video compilation.[1] In this way it continues the lineage of several Bowie audio-visual formats: documentaries beginning with Cracked Actor (1975); music video films beginning with Love You till Tuesday (1969); and music video compilations beginning with Video EP (1983).

  1. ^ a b Pegg, p. 644
  2. ^ "David Bowie – Black Tie White Noise". Discogs. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Looking back at David Bowie's Black Tie White Noise". Super Deluxe Edition. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2019.