Flying Lotus

Sound

Flying Lotus

Born 1983-10-07 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Steven Ellison (born October 7, 1983), better known as Flying Lotus or sometimes FlyLo, is an American record producer, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper. He has released seven critically acclaimed albums: 1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), Until the Quiet Comes (2012), You're Dead! (2014), Flamagra (2019), and Yasuke (2021). Flying Lotus' other work includes creating the record label Brainfeeder, producing much of Adult Swim's bumper music, releasing rap mixtapes such as Duality (2012) under his Captain Murphy alter ego, curating and hosting the in-game radio station FlyLo FM in Grand Theft Auto V (2013), and directing the sci-fi horror film Ash (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Flying Lotus, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Night Patrol poster
5.0

An L.A. cop discovers a local task force is hiding a secret that puts the residents of his childhood neighborhood in danger.

Night Patrol

2026

Ash poster
5.2

On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.

Ash

2025

Game Over, Man! poster
5.5

Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.

Game Over, Man!

2018

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records poster
7.0

Under the direction of founder and world-renowned DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records has consistently released critically acclaimed, left-of-center albums since its founding in 1996. Drawing on live concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the folks who put Stones Throw on the map, this documentary will delve deeper into the label's enigmatic artists, history, culture and global following.

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records

2013

Wrong Cops poster
6.1

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

Wrong Cops

2013

Kuso poster
5.4

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.

Kuso

2017

Cream poster
7.5

The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.

Cream

2016

Wrong poster
6.3

Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.

Wrong

2012

Wrong Cops: Chapter 1 poster
6.3

Duke, a crooked and music-mad cop, patrols in Los Angeles’ streets, music blasting and meets a young techno lover, David Dolores Frank. Appalled by the musical tastes of the young adolescent, Duke decides to give him a good music lesson.

Wrong Cops: Chapter 1

2012

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons poster
6.6

"Clapping for the Wrong Reasons" captures Glover as he walks around his L.A. mansion interacting with his various assortment of hanger-ons, including recording music with electronic musician/producer Flying Lotus and even "Boy Meets World" star Danielle Fishel, who is seen picking fruit out of a tree as she recounts a bizarre dream she had.

Clapping for the Wrong Reasons

2013

What Difference Does It Make? poster
5.1

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

What Difference Does It Make?

2014

Dreams Are Colder Than Death poster
6.0

What does it mean to be Black in America in the 21st century? The recently formed Black American film group TNEG™ has set out to elucidate this very question. Hearing from the likes of fine artist Kara Walker and musical artist Flying Lotus, the film is based on a deceptively simple approach -- asking a refined list of black 'specialists' as well as 'uncommon folks' questions about what they think, and more importantly as lead director Arthur Jafa states, 'What they KNOW' -- the film is an unprecedented 'stream of the black consciousness' and a strikingly original and rarefied look at black intellectual and emotional life. What's so unorthodox about this simple approach is that the interviews were recorded separately from the images in the film. What results is a breathtaking, kaleidoscopic look of American black life from the dawn of three original filmmakers.

Dreams Are Colder Than Death

2014

Behind the camera

Ash poster
5.2

On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.

Ash

2025

V/H/S/Mixtape poster
NR

The ninth installment of the horror anthology franchise. Plot TBA.

V/H/S/Mixtape

2026

V/H/S/99 poster
5.9

A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

V/H/S/99

2022

V/H/S/99 poster
5.9

A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

V/H/S/99

2022

Cove Road poster
6.0

While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a house full of partying teenagers who have reunited for the first time since graduating from high school the previous year.

Cove Road

2012

Kuso poster
5.4

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.

Kuso

2017

Kuso poster
5.4

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.

Kuso

2017

Cream poster
7.5

The time has come for CREAM - the latest product that will fix your life. This is the story of Dr. Bellifer, a scientific genius, who after years of smashing particles together, reveals his revolutionary new product: a cream with the power to fix all of the world’s problems.

Cream

2016

Royal poster
NR

Unearthed from Los Angeles's worst quake nightmare. The story of Royal begins where the curses of human survival have left off. Inside the dark rooms and dim minds of Missy and Kenneth. Some of the strangest secrets find their way out from behind the curtain, revealing wounds that may never heal.

Royal

2016