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THE YOSAI LIMITS

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Watch THE YOSAI LIMITS on YouTube

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Video editing: 

Montag

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Music:

Traka - Yosai (Commodo Remix)
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Movie:

The Outer Limits (1963) - Cold Hands, Warm Heat: Alien Scene

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Yosai in Japanese culture means something supernatural, beyond explanation — kind of like the alien in Contact (the 1985 book or the 1997 movie) when it finally shows up for scientist Ellie Arroway.

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It appears on a beach, looking just like her late father, Theodore, but right after the initial shock, Ellie realizes she’s being deceived.

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Then the alien, completely unfazed, explains that the intention was to make first contact easier for her to grasp — the first step for humanity to join other species.

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But forget all that "friendly, fatherly alien here to chat" nonsense, the real fun is with ugly, aggressive extraterrestrials — a starving xenomorph spitting sugary hot water and bleeding acid, an invisible Rastafarian collecting enemy skulls, deadbeat tenants from District 9, or even giant circular UFOs swarming in Independence Day.

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When it comes to creative ugliness, The Outer Limits Series is unbeatable: small aliens, giant ones, flying, floating, with centipede legs or no legs at all, big-headed or headless, wearing uniforms or completely naked... there's even a mustached alien.

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Yosai is also the name of a track by Czech producer Traka, so I took the British producer Commodo’s remix and mashed it with a scene from Cold Hands, Warm Heart, where astronaut Jeff Barton (played by William Shatner) is cruising near Venus, sweating buckets, and suddenly gets greeted by an alien shaped like one of those sea creatures the Japanese people eat raw.

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I don’t know if aliens exist, what they’d look like, or if they live among us and if I’ve made contact I can’t confirm, but hey, certainty is for the weak, only doubt pushes us forward.

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There’s no such thing as the unexplained or the supernatural.

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Nature is all there is, and only our species has this terrible (or wonderful) habit of using imagination when we don’t have answers, so I wondered what are the limits of our fantasies and I called it The Yosai Limits.

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There is no copyright infringement intended, the material used in this is purely for entertainment purposes, and it will be removed by request.

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