A Fez-wearing superhero in a music video

August 19, 2009 12:18 PM

A superhero in a fez (video link) gets an organic artificial hand and fights a pinball sarcophagus in a world reminiscent of Heavy Metal and La Planète sauvage. Music by Birdy Nam Nam. Video animation directed by Steve Scott.
posted by KirkJobSluder (11 comments total)

Reminds me of Les Maîtres du temps, with a soundtrack by Justice.
posted by FatherDagon at 12:43 PM on August 19, 2009

Yeah, Justice produced the track.
posted by robinhoudt at 12:56 PM on August 19, 2009

Love me some Savage Planet.
posted by Ironmouth at 1:00 PM on August 19, 2009

I find the new arm to be fairly disturbing.
posted by scrutiny at 1:02 PM on August 19, 2009

anybody else get a strong Daft Punk vibe from this? I get a strong Daft Punk vibe from this.
posted by shmegegge at 1:04 PM on August 19, 2009

At first I was put off by the juxtaposition of flat colored characters against the more detailed backgrounds. I quickly got over that because of the awesome music and the super hero charging up scene.
posted by Mister Cheese at 1:10 PM on August 19, 2009

Shmegegge, the song was produced by Justice, who are the flagship artists on the Ed Banger record label, which is owned and operated by Busy P, the manager of Daft Punk. They're just a couple degrees away.


Incidentally, Birdy Nam Nam is named for a scene from the Peter Sellers movie The Party, which also starred Claudine Longet, most famous for murdering olympic skiier "Spider" Sabich
posted by orville sash at 1:12 PM on August 19, 2009

Incidentally, Birdy Nam Nam is named for a scene from the Peter Sellers movie The Party...

Hah, that's hilarious - that movie was the first thing I thought of when I saw the band title, and then I was like "There's no way that's taken from that movie... because he was clearly saying Birdy Num Num in the film."
posted by FatherDagon at 2:12 PM on August 19, 2009

wow. Seriously... wow. That was very, very cool. Thanks so much for posting that!
posted by Slothrop at 2:35 PM on August 19, 2009

The video far outshone the music in the video. I would definitely watch anything made by this Steve Scott person, not so much the listening to the Birdy Nam Nam group of people.
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 5:28 PM on August 19, 2009

This is so like what if you gave Codex Seraphinianus the Dragon's Lair / Space Ace treatment.

And that's a good thing.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 8:32 PM on August 19, 2009