Flaming Lips: The Fearless Freaks

Release	May 17, 2005
Video	Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
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Studio	Shout Factory
Year	0
Genre	Music, Concert

The Fearless Freaks is an intimate look at one of today's most acclaimed alternative rock groups, The Flaming Lips. Filmmaker Bradley Beesley, the band's long-time friend and director of all their music videos since 1992, gives us an insider's look at their 20-year transformation from Oklahoma outsiders to GRAMMY-winning elder statesmen of the weird and the wonderful.

This fascinating documentary features revealing interviews with band members past and present, and includes amazing performance footage from their entire career - truly capturing the eccentric and inventive world of The Flaming Lips.

"If The Flaming Lips have an accidental career, then this documentary is indeed an accident as well. Back in 1991, I was simply Wayne’s art school neighbor in Norman, Oklahoma, with a film camera and some tenacity. They were in need of a willing and somewhat competent cinematographer to shoot their music video, and I was on a constant hunt for action-packed stories and oddball characters. And thus a relationship built of geographic convenience and mutual desire to create ourselves was born. And now, fifteen years later, I have thankfully made my filmmaking career through working with The Flaming Lips.

After combing through 400 hours of footage that includes a decade of home movies, personal interviews, live shows, music videos and the Lip's first full-length feature film (Christmas on Mars), The Fearless Freaks is at last fully realized. Although I am certainly excited and ready to share this film with the world I have to admit it's bittersweet. I can't imagine not filming a Lips concert, a Drozd brother jam session or the Coyne family Christmas. I am forever grateful to Wayne, Steven and Michael for their patience and trust. Without the unbelievable access that the band gave me, this film would just be another okay rockumentary. Instead, together we have created an insightful and personal piece of cinema." - Bradley 2004