The Fearless Freaks

Bradley Beesley

IndieLisboa 2006 •

USA, Documentary, 2005, 100′

First of all, the numbers: 400 hours of images, between intimate conversations, home movies, live shows, behind the scenes and music clips, culled from 15 years of sporadic documentation. This results in a close up and personal look over the Flaming Lips, one of the most influent American rock & roll bands from the last two decades. From a no-talent hillbilly-punk version of the Who (the Lips started in 1983) to a planetary success band (following the phenomenon of its latest record Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots), all their trajectory was documented in THE FEARLESS FREAKS by director and friend Bradley Beesley.