Bradley Beesley

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Bradley Beesley is an American independent film and video director producer and cinematographer He has long been associated with the alternative music band The Flaming Lips Beesley first worked with The Flaming Lips filming some promotional videos for the bands album Hit to Death in the Future Head  Most of Beesleys video work with the band is included on the VOID video retrospective Aside from his work with The Flaming Lips Beesley has directed a number of awardwinning documentaries His first was 1999s Hill Stomp Hollar a onehour film about the Fat Possum record label and many of the blues artists particularly R L Burnside Beesleys next film Okie Noodling 2001 focused on the unusual practice of catching catfish using only the bare hand as bait It featured an original soundtrack by The Flaming Lips and won the Audience Choice Award and was runnerup for Best Documentary at the 2001 South by Southwest film festival In 2005 Beesley released the documentary The Fearless Freaks The Wondrously Improbable Story of The Flaming Lips Critics said the film offered an unusually personal and intimate view into the band The Flaming Lips also provided the soundtrack for the documentary that Beesley produced and codirected Summercamp which opened July 18 2007 Description above from the Wikipedia article Bradley Beesley licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia