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Bursting Through

Bic Runga

Synopsis

The second single from singer-songwriter Bic Runga's critically acclaimed debut album Drive, 'Bursting Through' is a spare but quietly insistent plea for emotional warmth. Director Melanie Bridge’s video finds Runga elegantly coiffeured and styled in a white gown with a black guitar. The setting favours bleached whites and pale blues, and water surrounds her in a myriad of forms — dripping, pooled, condensed — but there’s the promise of sunlight and succour as well. Bridge would shortly co-found award-winning commercials agency The Sweet Shop.

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 davis

davis

Awesome. Never knew there was a video of this!!!

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Credits

 Melanie Bridge

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Acknowledgements

Funding from NZ on Air.