Synopsis

A kaleidoscopic collage of scenes from the 1966 Czech New Wave film "Daisies" follows two mischievous young women as they flirt, feast, tease older men, and treat social conventions as toys. Images of extravagant meals, playful poses, fragments of conversation, dancing, and sudden bursts of color are cut into a loose, dreamlike rhythm. Rather than illustrating the song literally, the video matches Chrome Sparks' hypnotic pulse with the film's anarchic energy, turning its female protagonists into icons of appetite, rebellion, and joyful disorder.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video uses footage from Vera Chytilova's 1966 film "Daisies," one of the defining works of the Czechoslovak New Wave. The source film is known for its radical editing, surreal costumes, shifting film stocks, stop-motion inserts, and deliberately disjointed structure.

• "Daisies" centers on two women, both named Marie, who decide to behave as badly as the world around them. Its satire of conformity, materialism, patriarchy, and authoritarian social order gives the video a more subversive undertone than its playful imagery initially suggests.

• The clip's visual language closely complements the music: repetition, abrupt cuts, saturated color, food imagery, and strange gestures echo the track's layered percussion and woozy electronic textures.

• "Marijuana" first circulated online in 2012, before appearing on the 2013 "Sparks" EP. The track became Chrome Sparks' breakout release and helped establish Jeremy Malvin's reputation for combining manipulated samples, synths, and percussion.

• The song samples Idris Muhammad's 1970s jazz-funk track "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This." Malvin later remarked that "Marijuana" took considerably less time to make than any other track he had released, despite becoming his best-known early song.

• The source film was controversial in its home country and was subjected to censorship after its release. Its imagery of wasteful feasting was especially provocative in a period when food shortages remained a sensitive political issue.