Summercamp! (2007) - Producer and co-director (with Sarah Price).Christmas on Mars (2008) - Cinematographer and narrator.Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (2009) - Director, co-producer, co-camera.Smith's photographs for Beesley's film Okie Noodling (2001) were featured in the US magazine Sports Illustrated prior to the completion of the film's sequel. Earlier that year an exhibition of photographs from Beesley's Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo by Craig Smith and Shane Brown was held at the Super!Alright in Austin, Texas during the film's premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. In 2009 Beesley and Smith presented photographs from the film Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo at the BFI London Film Festival in the UK and the University of the Arts London London College of Communication. In 2013 Beesley and Smith presented photographs from and a screening of the film Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo as part of an international visual art exhibition held at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York entitled Art of Sport. īeesley has often worked with the American visual and recording artist Craig Smith. The Flaming Lips also provided the soundtrack for the documentary that Beesley produced and co-directed, Summercamp!, which opened July 18, 2007. Critics said the film offered an unusually personal and intimate view into the band. In 2005, Beesley released the documentary The Fearless Freaks: The Wondrously Improbable Story of The Flaming Lips. It featured an original soundtrack by The Flaming Lips and won the Audience Choice Award and was runner-up for Best Documentary at the 2001 South by Southwest film festival. Burnside.īeesley's next film Okie Noodling (2001) focused on the unusual practice of catching catfish using only the bare hand as bait. His first was 1999's "Hill Stomp Hollar", a one-hour film about the Fat Possum record label and many of the blues artists, particularly R. Most of Beesley's video work with the band is included on the VOID video retrospective.Īside from his work with The Flaming Lips, Beesley has directed a number of award-winning documentaries. Born in Oklahoma and based in Austin, Texas, he "has made a cinematic career documenting oddball Americana, strange sub-cultures and homegrown rock stars." Background īeesley has long been associated with the Oklahoma City-based alternative rock band The Flaming Lips, filming some promotional videos for the band's album Hit to Death in the Future Head. Ultimately, the music is fine, and the Flaming Lips can create both lyrical and sonic genius in their sleep, but when an album's first two songs are such a big deal, finishing out with "fine" isn't.Bradley Beesley is an American Independent film and video director, producer and cinematographer. Ambulance Driver," but by the time the album both regains and loses its stride with funk-party-turned-dour-funeral "It Overtakes Me/The Stars Are So Big.", it's easy to give up. Bursts of brilliance pop up in the remaining songs, like the fuzzed-out guitar riff buried halfway in the otherwise droll "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" or the touching memorial lyrics in "Mr. But once track three begins, this album proves to be at war with itself, sinking into quieter Soft Bulletin retreads with inner-looking lyrics that don't evoke much new (unless random quibbles about "Britney and Gwen" can be called refreshing). The Lips kick off their latest "of course it's gonna be weird" album, At War With the Mystics, with a bang: "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" has its freak-folk-meets-psychedelic-guitars lunacy capped off by a subtly political sing-along, and "Free Radicals" has enough falsetto and funk to earn a lazy Prince comparison, but its secret strength is its Zeppelin anthem tone. Kudos to the Flaming Lips for releasing the best A-side/B-side of the year so far.
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