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The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

One of the few uplifting music stories during the early phases of the pandemic, this documentary explains how the Flaming Lips Space Bubble Shows happen and show highlights from the performances.

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Wayne Coyne, Blake Studdard

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♪"Race For The
Prize" (Live Version)♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪"Race For The Prize" (Live Version)♪

I'm going to go ahead
and take off my mask... - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I'm going to go ahead and take off my mask...

♪"Space Bible" by
The Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪"Space Bible" by The Flaming Lips♪

The thing we're going to start
to do is start to make this - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

The thing we're going to start to do is start to make t...

I think we started to make
the movie because Steven and I - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I think we started to make the movie because Steven and I

At the very beginning of
this conceptualizing about what - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

At the very beginning of this conceptualizing about what

The character that I
play in the movie, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

The character that I play in the movie,

And I'm arriving on-- it's not - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And I'm arriving on-- it's not

My spaceship is a
shaped like a bubble. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

My spaceship is a shaped like a bubble.

♪"The Horrors of Isolation"
by The Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪"The Horrors of Isolation" by The Flaming Lips♪...

We start to look
for a big, round, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

We start to look for a big, round,

It was around
2003 or four-- - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It was around 2003 or four--

But as much as we
looked and searched, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

But as much as we looked and searched,

And I kept thinking about this
scene that I wanted to shoot, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And I kept thinking about this scene that I wanted to shoot,

We didn't end up needing the
space bubble to make the movie, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

We didn't end up needing the space bubble to make the m...

Wayne calls me up and
says, "I found the bubble." - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Wayne calls me up and says, "I found the bubble."

It was this guy named Charles,
and it turns out he actually - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It was this guy named Charles, and it turns out he actually

The idea was that you're
supposed to get in the ball, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

The idea was that you're supposed to get in the ball,

So the space bubble,
just one space bubble, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

So the space bubble, just one space bubble,

I don't remember
the time exactly, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I don't remember the time exactly,

He brought a leaf blower and we
blew it up in our front yard, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

He brought a leaf blower and we blew it up in our front yard...

I think they always
knew we were weird, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I think they always knew we were weird,

We didn't know if we were going
to walk on one little rock and - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

We didn't know if we were going to walk on one little r...

You have to keep in mind this
is a giant American festival, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

You have to keep in mind this is a giant American festival,

And we as the Flaming Lips,
we're pretty used to people - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And we as the Flaming Lips, we're pretty used to people

And we're about to
start to do our first song, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And we're about to start to do our first song,

It's a lot of people setting
up, and nobody really seems to - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It's a lot of people setting up, and nobody really seem...

Sort of to our
relief and surprise, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Sort of to our relief and surprise,

No, no, no! - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

At the time, it
was such an exhilarating, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

At the time, it was such an exhilarating,

You don't know if the stagehands
are going to stop you, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

You don't know if the stagehands are going to stop you,

It's all just so
nerve-wracking, so you just go. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It's all just so nerve-wracking, so you just go.

I remember a big
issue at Coachella was, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I remember a big issue at Coachella was,

My biggest worry was Wayne
was going to be out there in the - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

My biggest worry was Wayne was going to be out there in the

The air just goes, it collapses,
and Wayne just sinks into the - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

The air just goes, it collapses, and Wayne just sinks into t...

And I was holding a Bowie knife,
and I had this knife in my hand - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And I was holding a Bowie knife, and I had this knife in my ...

Part of me thought, "It
might just really work, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Part of me thought, "It might just really work,

I get in it, and I do my best
to walk on top of the audience, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I get in it, and I do my best to walk on top of the audience...

But I can't really
walk on top of them. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

But I can't really walk on top of them.

I take a step or
two and fall over, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I take a step or two and fall over,

But when I'm walking, I do try
to look relaxed and elegant as - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

But when I'm walking, I do try to look relaxed and eleg...

It almost immediately
became this iconic image. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It almost immediately became this iconic image.

They take these fantastical
things that you make up when - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

They take these fantastical things that you make up when

There was a cover
story in Newsweek. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

There was a cover story in Newsweek.

Donald Rumsfeld
was on the cover, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Donald Rumsfeld was on the cover,

And inside of Newsweek
there was a two-page spread, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And inside of Newsweek there was a two-page spread,

It has just started to be
embraced and it started to - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It has just started to be embraced and it started to

It started to become a thing
that the audience expected us to - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It started to become a thing that the audience expected us t...

If that's 2004 when we
did that at Coachella, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

If that's 2004 when we did that at Coachella,

♪"When We Die When We're
High" by The Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪"When We Die When We're High" by The Flaming...

Singing a different song,
sometimes coming out in the - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Singing a different song, sometimes coming out in the

But it's a long
time to be doing this, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

But it's a long time to be doing this,

There's no way, or there'd be
really no reason that you would - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

There's no way, or there'd be really no reason tha...

So, I think just by virtue of us
having those this silly gag as - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

So, I think just by virtue of us having those this silly gag...

♪Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Pt. 1 by The Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 by The Flaming Lips♪...

♪"Powerless" by
The Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪"Powerless" by The Flaming Lips♪

It's not necessarily a political
cartoon but something like that, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It's not necessarily a political cartoon but something ...

And I think everybody
thought it was funny and clever. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And I think everybody thought it was funny and clever.

I'm not even sure if
people realize that I drew it. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I'm not even sure if people realize that I drew it.

And really, for me that was
all that the little drawing was - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And really, for me that was all that the little drawing was

In my mind, when I
first saw the sketch, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

In my mind, when I first saw the sketch,

When I saw the drawing,
I thought it was cool, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

When I saw the drawing, I thought it was cool,

I would be crazy if I said we
weren't all worried in our own - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I would be crazy if I said we weren't all worried in ou...

We're used to this, we take care
of each other on the road all - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

We're used to this, we take care of each other on the r...

And that was pretty
early, getting together. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And that was pretty early, getting together.

I missed being able to be
around our gang and our friends - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I missed being able to be around our gang and our friends

So even though it was difficult,
I was excited that we were going - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

So even though it was difficult, I was excited that we were ...

I thought "Oh shit, he's
really going to do that." - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I thought "Oh shit, he's really going to do that.&...

Are they going to think
we're being reckless, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Are they going to think we're being reckless,

But I knew that we did care, and
we were just as worried if not - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

But I knew that we did care, and we were just as worried if ...

He would find a
way to do it safely, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

He would find a way to do it safely,

At the beginning of the first
couple of weeks of the lockdown, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

At the beginning of the first couple of weeks of the lockdow...

And the Stephen
Colbert show talent buyer, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And the Stephen Colbert show talent buyer,

I was hinting
around at that too, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I was hinting around at that too,

So, we asked everybody in our
family and all of our friends - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

So, we asked everybody in our family and all of our friends

My first thought is: nobody is
doing anything at this point. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

My first thought is: nobody is doing anything at this point.

People aren't even having
meals with their parents. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

People aren't even having meals with their parents.

♪Turning Violent by
The Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪Turning Violent by The Flaming Lips♪

When the idea for the
Colbert thing first came up, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

When the idea for the Colbert thing first came up,

Not against the
idea, just nervous. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Not against the idea, just nervous.

My wife has got some
pretty severe asthma, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

My wife has got some pretty severe asthma,

It was probably only two months
in and there was so much we - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It was probably only two months in and there was so much we

And we took it seriously and I
didn't feel like it was unsafe. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And we took it seriously and I didn't feel like it was ...

I felt like it went as
well as it could have. - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I felt like it went as well as it could have.

♪Race for the Prize
by the Flaming Lips♪ - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

♪Race for the Prize by the Flaming Lips♪

It's kind of hard to
show energy at a concert, - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

It's kind of hard to show energy at a concert,

That was the first night of
performing with people in the - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

That was the first night of performing with people in the

I usually don't seek out
the validation on Instagram or - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

I usually don't seek out the validation on Instagram or

Everybody sees it on TV, and
we got the feeling whether you - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

Everybody sees it on TV, and we got the feeling whether you

And I can understand where they
would think that because most of - The Flaming Lips Space Bubble Film

And I can understand where they would think that because mos...

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One of the few uplifting music stories during the early phases of the pandemic, this documentary explains how the Flaming Lips Space Bubble Shows happen and show highlights from the performances.

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Director: Wayne Coyne, Blake Studdard

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Genre: documentary, music

Year: 2022

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Released: 01 Nov 2022

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