Flying Lotus to Make Directorial Debut & Drop New Music at Sundance Film Festival

At the very start of this year, Flying Lotus unveiled an ambitious, very impressive new short film, FUCKKKYOUUU. Now, he’s revealed plans for his directorial debut. Revealing that his label Brainfeeder now has its own ‘film division,’ FlyLo announced plans to debut his new short film at the renowned Sundance Film Festival this year. Describing the film’s narrative as “an awkward love story that’s definitely not for the kiddies,” the eclectic, genre-bending artist revealed that inspiration from the film initially came from a GIF of his interaction with Thom Yorke during a set at L.A. beat scene institution Low End Theory. n October of last year there was this pretty awesome gif going around of me and Thom Yorke djing… I was fixated on this for a whole day and thought. Shit. I can make stuff like that… So now after lots of toiling tinkering begging and bothering I’m able to tell u this. Brainfeeder has started a film division,” he tweeted. He also promised more new music to go along with the film. Check out FlyLo’s series of tweets about his news below.

In October of last year there was this pretty awesome gif going around of me and Thom Yorke djing. pic.twitter.com/l09Y48Gvhq

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

I was fixated on this for a whole day and thought. Shit. I can make stuff like that

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

So now after lots of toiling tinkering begging and bothering I’m able to tell u this. Brainfeeder has started a film division

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

It started off with an animation and became something else..@DAVID_FIRTH started teaching me animation. So he was the first person I signed

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

My first thing is called “Royal” it’s an awkward love story that’s definitely not for the kiddies. It will debut at the Sundance /Next fest

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

I know I usually deliver album news around now but look at this face…. pic.twitter.com/ZP7InDfMuo

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

There will obviously be music :)

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

There’s so much I wanna say about all this stuff. I knw the world is crazy. I just wanna entertain u

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

Come see my directorial debut “Royal” at Sundance / next fest in LA this August. Let my unfiltered imagination wash over your lovely face.

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016

There’s gonna be music in the movie :) https://t.co/621MbuqPo4

— FLYLO (@flyinglotus) July 6, 2016