Synopsis

In this surreal, fully 3D video, two gray-skinned beings emerge in an otherworldly landscape before apparently arriving on Earth. The female figure is pregnant, with a glowing abdomen that reveals the developing creature inside her. A helicopter sends the pair into a panic, prompting them to flee in a stolen car despite having no apparent understanding of human machinery. Their chaotic escape becomes increasingly physical and unsettling, ending with darkness, a shattering noise, and a scream that suggests the alien birth has finally occurred.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released on November 6, 2012, almost ten months after the song's first video, which used footage from the documentary *Re:Generation Music Project*.

• It was produced as an entirely 3D music video and was also distributed through Nintendo Video for viewing on the Nintendo 3DS.

• The production credits list a substantial visual-effects team, including character animation and compositing work. The effects later received recognition in the visual-effects category at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.

• The track was created for *Re:Generation*, a documentary project that paired electronic producers with musicians from different generations and genres.

• Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore contributed to the recording, making the song a collaboration with three surviving members of The Doors.

• Jim Morrison appears through a sampled archival interview rather than a newly recorded performance. The remaining Doors members supplied instrumental and vocal contributions around Skrillex's electronic production.

• The second video's strange science-fiction imagery is notably separate from the documentary-style footage used in the earlier version, giving the same song two very different visual identities.