"Get a knife and cut them off!": Watch Kate Bush chaotically fight her own legs in the bizarre 1993 short film that she later regarded as "a load of old bollocks"

Kate Bush in the film The Line, the Cross and the Curve.

When it comes to conjuring weird and wonderful creative worlds, no artist has managed to succeed in quite the same way as Kate Bush. Something of a hermit in terms of stage appearances, having only ever toured twice throughout her 45-year career, the English musical polymath remains something of an enigma, defined by a catalogue fuelled by an individualistic magic not found elsewhere, brimming with complex lore, powerful imagery and profound ideas. 

Her 1993 film The Line, the Cross and the Curve is one of her stranger offerings. Created in tandem with her 1993 album The Red Shoes, the project was inspired by the 1948 Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger-directed musical fantasy of the same name, and saw Bush not only feature as its star, but take on directional duties, shaping the film into something wholly in her own image - whimsical, extraordinary and, at times, a little eyebrow raising.