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The David Bowie classic soundtracks a surreal tale of adolescent wonder

Catalan director collective CANADA talk about their film, Sound and Vision, an homage to late pop icon David Bowie:

“The curators of the David Bowie Is exhibition, which is currently on show at Barcelona Design Museum, invited us to shoot something for the exhibition—a tribute film. The only requirement was that Barcelona and Bowie would be somehow related. Bowie as a figure looms so large, that our instinctive first reaction was to approach him obliquely, rather than frontally. Not putting him in the foreground but to scatter his mythic stardust over a non-related world.

“The dreamy and mellow nature of the song worked well as a canvas where all the imagery could showcase a more fantastical feature”

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