From their beginnings as lo-fi psychedelia experimenters, it’s unlikely that The Apples In Stereo would have ever imagined working with Frodo Baggins.
The Denver sextet, known also as a part of the Athens, Georgia based Elephant 6 Collective, revealed that in support of their upcoming album “Travelers in Space and Time,” they would be producing a short film entitled “Exploring The Universe with Elijah Wood.” The film stars Elijah Wood and Apples frontman Robert Schneider as alternate versions of themselves. In this alternate reality, Wood plays the chair of the fictional Drain Creek Middle School Department of Physical Science and Physical Education and Schneider as a guest physicist. The short (which you can watch below) plays out as a Tim & Eric-esque cable access presentation of pseudoscience. You can even see a fake press release for the film here.
Wood is a known music buff. He shot scenes (later excised) for The Flaming Lips movie “Christmas On Mars,” and was at one point attached to play Iggy Pop in a biopic, so it comes as no huge surprise that he chose to make an appearance in a weird little project such as this one.
On the website launched to promote the album (which you can step through the portal to), the video is numbered, so we can assume there’s more science wackiness with Wood and Schneider to come. The Apples In Stereo will release ‘Travellers’ on April 20th and tour in support of it.