Made a sci-fi-ish and absurdist music video/movie mashup to Planemo by The Book of Knots (featuring Mike Patton’s vocals)… it’s quite dark but not without a certain satirical levity.
The video features footage from The Stranger (1967) by Luchino Visconti, a film adaptation of the eponymous book by Albert Camus starring Marcello Mastroianni. The main character is continuisly plagued by copious amounts of anxiety, inherent guilt and a sort of Kafkaesque sense of doom and dread.
The other “main” part of this video consists of clips from the first episode (I Worship His Shadow) of the Canadian/German sci-fi tv show Lexx. The 4-season long series continuously spoofs common and tired sci-fi tropes, smartly injecting satirical political/social commentary, thus keeping a solid moral center… what more could you possibly want? …not to mention all of the hilariously blatant and culturally scathing sex jokes along the way… the main characters are traveling on a ship shaped like a set of male genitalia, after all!
Third central part of this video - the unofficial Twilight Zone pilot “The Time Element” (allegedly the first sci-fi teleplay Rod Serling wrote). This episode narrates the story of a man who traveled in time and knew that the Pearl Harbor attack was imminent, but ultimately could not warn anybody around him or prevent it from happening, being decidedly pegged as a madman by all.
Lastly, we added parts of the eccentric 70s animation Fritz the Cat by Ralph Bakshi and just a smidge of David Lynch’s short called Rabbits.
Hope you enjoyed this what we made and/or you’re excited to check out the movies and music mentioned :)
