Rage Against the Machine's video for "People of the Sun" is credited to
Peter Christopherson and Sergei Eisenstein!  Apparently that's because
the video uses a fair amount of footage from Que Viva Mexico.  (The song
is about the Chiapas rebellion.)
 
(Christopherson has had a notable media life.  As a member of Throbbing
Gristle, he helped create one of the first long-form music videos
(Heathen Earth).  Was later a founding member of Psychic TV but got out
early.  Founded Coil which recorded music for Clive Barker's film
Hellraiser but the producers refused to use it, saying that it was too
unsettling (Barker's phrase was "bowel churning").  Derek Jarman did use
their music for The Angelic Conversations.  Christopherson directed
several videos for Coil, a couple of which caused a minor stir for their
blatant homoeroticism though nothing like the attacks on them from the
gay community for a video to their cover of "Tainted Love."  He's lately
directed videos for Ministry and Nine Inch Nails (though Reznor rejected
the first version of one as being too extreme, oddly enough).)
 
 
Lang Thompson
 
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