Editing Bauhaus (band) (section)

====''Mask''====
Bauhaus' growing success outstripped 4AD's resources, so the band moved to 4AD's parent label, [[Beggars Banquet Records]].{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=56}} Bauhaus released "[[Kick in the Eye]]" in March 1981 as its debut release on the label. The single reached No. 59 on the charts.{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=57}} The following single, "[[The Passion of Lovers]]", peaked at No. 56 in July 1981.{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=60}} Murphy said, "One of our loves is to make each single totally different from the last, not to be tied down by a style or sound."{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=57}} Bauhaus released their second album, ''[[Mask (Bauhaus album)|Mask]]'', in October 1981. The band employed more keyboards, and a variety of other instruments, to add to the diversity of the record. The front and back cover of the album was an impressionistic drawing created by Ash. In an unconventional move, the group shot a video for the album's title track as a promotional tool for the band, rather than any specific song from the record, filmed in a hazardous and abandoned Victorian shoe factory in Northampton.{{sfn|Shirley|1994|pp=63–64}} David J explained the techniques, effects and his reaction regarding the content of the title track: "I can still recall with crystal clarity overdubbing the echoed bass part and using a metal bottleneck to achieve the cascade effect that comes in at the point where Daniel's acoustic twelve-string part starts. Hearing these sounds in ultra-sharp coke-intensified focus through headphones produced an ecstatic heart-bursting emotion on the edge of orgasmic release."<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> The film crew consists of Chris Collins and Ken Lawrence of Standard Pictures. The video was made with a minuscule budget; the gear used in the video were powered off car batteries and roll film, and filmed in a hazardous and abandoned Victorian shoe factory in Northampton, which was just across the road from the main police station. David J explains how the band and film crew broke into the building to make the video: "We snuck into this place about three in the morning and the lights kept going down at crucial moments so we'd have to wait and sit around in complete darkness...the place was dripping wet although it all added to the atmosphere."{{sfn|Shirley|1994|pp=65}} The video's imagery and lighting borrowed heavily from [[German Expressionism]]. David J commented on the content of the music video: "We improvised around the loose idea of a ritualistic resurrection, with Peter lain out like a corpse on a wooden slab. Each of us would administer some kind of shamanistic voodoo to assist in the raising of the dead. The place was freezing cold, dank, and dripping with filthy water. The lights kept going out, and we would be plunged into complete darkness until they were restored."<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> When the scenes of the factory were finished, the group went to another location for filming. David J explained: "Once we had filmed the scenes in the factory, we set off for a second location: the woods on the grounds of the [[Spencer family]]'s country estate – another illegal situation, and a potential threat to the monarchy. We did have fun that night! The finished film looked great: a fog-cloaked atmospheric drama that was redolent of a German Expressionist silent horror flick." David J also mentioned that the music video was more of an art piece than a traditional music video and commented that Chris Collins "did a brilliant job of capturing the visual essence of the band."<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> Chris Collins commented on the motive of the video: "Foremost in our minds was to make something interesting, so somebody who'd never heard of Bauhaus before and suddenly saw that video might say, "God, that's really interesting, I want to know more about that".{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=66}} Ken Lawrence also explained the film's intention: "Every film about a band should show the strengths of that artist. So of course "Mask" is a promo because hopefully, it's what Bauhaus are about. If you listen to their lyrics at all, if you know the way their music is structured – it's thought provoking, it evokes mood and it's very atmospheric music and that was our approach to making the film."{{sfn|Shirley|1994|p=66}} It made only one appearance on British TV.

Around the same time, "In keeping with our surrealist leaning...", the band also employed the "exquisite corpse" technique to an experimental film they made called "Consequences", where each member was given an amount of time to film whatever they wished.<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> It was shown on tour in place of a support band.<ref name="Mister Moonlight" /> The band toured broadly to promote the album by playing a 16-date tour of England and 13 dates in Europe.