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It's Ōtepoti's Fault

2022 Music video
  • Pop

From the Album Zealandia (2018)

'It's Ōtepoti's Fault' is the deeply personal final single from Zealandia, Dudley's Benson's "love album to the land". Lyrically, the song is written from Benson's perspective, as if he was introducing his home of Ōtepoti/Dunedin to his late mother. The accompanying music video is equally as intimate. Largely filmed at Dunedin's historic Regent Theatre, the video depicts Benson watching Super 8 home movie footage of his mother Adrianne projected on the cinema screen. Benson directed the video, with haunting cinematography by Miranda Bellamy and editing by his frequent collaborator Phoebe Lysbeth Kay.