Director:
Bradley Beesley, Wayne Coyne, George Salisbury
Runtime:
82 minutes
Year:
2008
TV Rating:
TV14
Oklahoma City’s spacey band The Flaming Lips present a bizarre DIY sci-fi original, reportedly shot over the course of seven years in the backyard of writer, co-director and Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. As Christmas approaches at run-down space station on Mars, Major Syrtis (Steven Drozd) prepares to celebrate the colony’s first birth despite pervasive low morale. Costarring Coyne (as a horned alien), Fred Armisen and Adam Goldberg. Directed by Coyne, Bradley Beesley and George Salisbury. “Trippy … wonderfully odd and charming” – Boston Globe.
Watch our exclusive interview with Wayne Coyne on the making of the film.