Flaming Lips Film Due

Flaming Lips' long awaited film "Christmas On Mars" is finally set to be released on November 10th on DVD and CD/DVD formats, it has been announced.

In production since 2001, the few clips that have emerged have been tremendously weird to say the least. The film was launched at New York's KGB Complex on September 12th, and was a minor hit at offbeat venues across America.

Directed by Wayne Coyne and Flaming Lips' technician George Salisbury, the film is a testament to the band's DIY spirit. Many of the 'Martian' sets were in fact created in Coyne's back garden, and the film co-stars many of the band's friends from the Oklahoma music community.

The film does indeed take place during Christmas time on Mars, as the colonization of the Red Planet is underway. But when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (The Lips' Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips' bassist Michael Ivins) fear for the worst. Syrtis hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing (Coyne) arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts.

The Flaming Lips film "Christmas On Mars" is set to be released on November 10th.