Barbara Kruger
The Perfect Kiss video promotional poster
New York City, USA: Factory Records US, 1985
24.5"x24.5"
Edition size unknown
Jonathan Demme directed the video for New Order's song "The Perfect Kiss", a year after directing the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (which is still generally considered to be one of the greatest concert films ever) and a few years prior to his Oscar winning films Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia.
The video is a straight ahead live performance, set in the band's rehearsal space. According to Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, Demme was looking forward to filming Stephen Morris behind the drums, and was dismayed to find that the drums in the song were all programmed.
Michael Shamberg, head of Factory US, commissioned Barbara Kruger (then still new to her signature collage style, with Futura Bold Oblique text) to create a poster advertising the music video.
Now scarce, the poster sells for between two and three thousand dollars.
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