Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips

Long the source of speculation amongst loyal Flaming Lips fans, this offbeat tale of the first Martian colony and the strange events surrounding the birth of the first extraterrestrial human child went into production in 2001 with band frontman Wayne Coyne pulling double duty as both director and ...more

Christmas On Mars is a fantastical and disturbing film freakout. You expected something less from The Flaming Lips? Seven years in the making, Christmas On Mars was directed and written by The Flaming Lips’ visionary frontman Wayne Coyne and features the band members and many of their associates as actors in a story set during the colonization of Mars. The 86-minute film and its original score are presented in a stand-alone DVD, and as a CD+DVD package which includes an audio CD of the score. With Christmas On Mars, psychedelia finally has its epic film.