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Bullet with Butterfly Wings

The Smashing Pumpkins

Director

Samuel Bayer

Release date

1995

Category

Music Video

Genre

Alternative, Alternative Rock

Country

United States

Editor

Robert Duffy

Samuel Bayer dragged The Smashing Pumpkins into a deep mud pit alongside dozens of laborers, using high-contrast lighting, specialized film processing, and real physical grime — imagery inspired by 1940s photography of Brazilian miners — to capture the existential exhaustion of 1995.