fearless freak be the story of the punk finally take acid feature the alternative band and the flaming lip . it be a masterful explosion of bizarre rock and roll footage collaged into a documentary form . each lip go into detail how they become part of the group and their personal struggle throughout their year . in a way and the film be a blueprint of how to become a rock star while make music with your friend and film every show and make loud experimental music and use smoke and fire when you lack talent and find a filmmaker to follow you around and crank call record company and tour and tour and tour and you will finally make it big . every flame lip fan and starve rocker will appreciate this fiery saga . freak be film by their longtime director brad beesley ( okie noodling ) . it look deep into their origin in oklahoma city and be cull from over 400 hour of video footage the lip have in their archive of early show and grow up and picture and show poster . beesley sign on to follow the band in the early 1990 and make many of their early music video . produce by minnesotan and rick fuller and edit by jolynn garnes .