Christmas on Mars and Zaireeka Experiment

Dir. Bradly Beesly & Wayne Coyne & George Salisbury, English, 2008

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Thu 10 December 2009 // 19:30 / Cinema

Psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips present Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips, a glorious science fiction film that marks the directorial debut of the Lips' visionary frontman Wayne Coyne.

Seven years in the making, Christmas on Mars features original music by the Flaming Lips ("The greatest US band today" - The Guardian), with acting performances by all band members, and many others from their Oklahoma City-based team.

Comedian Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and actor Adam Goldberg (Dazed and Confused, Two Days in Paris) also appear. It's Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Lips' Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips' Michael Ivins) fear the worst…’

Described as Erasorhead crossed with the Wizard of Oz and a little bit of space odyssey! This is a disturbing look at what Christmas might be like in a twisted, scary broken version of the future.

Christmas on Mars is a triumph of DIY filmmaking.

Warning: Contains Disturbing Scenes Of Genitalia.

Followed by a Zaireeka playback experiment... This is an album created by the Flaming Lips before The Soft Bulletin and comes on 4 CD's which must be played simulateneusly. We will bring multiple copies of the album, to try to get 2, 3 or 4 copies and play them all simultaneusly.. Bring a CD player and join in. The audiance will then be able to walk round the room and hear the album differently depending on where in the room they are standing.