The Mars Volta / At the Drive-In documentary, Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, is now available to rent or buy via Amazon Prime, among other digital platforms. A physical release on DVD and Blu-Ray is coming February 25th.
The Nicolas Jack Davies-directed doc premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in October 2023, later receiving a theatrical release in late November 2024. It was then awarded Best Music Documentary at the 2024 IDA Awards in December.
The film follows the musical journey of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala with a fly-on-the-wall level of access, from their early days cutting their teeth in El Paso’s hardcore scene with At the Drive-In, to their legacy-defining work with The Mars Volta, including their personal fallout and reconnection.
Over the course of multiple decades, Rodríguez-López shot 100s of hours of footage documenting At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, and much of the doc is compiled from those home movies, along with interviews with Omar and Cedric and live concert clips.
“We understand people will have direct questions for us, but we just point them to Nick’s film which holds all of the answers,” Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala told Rolling Stone regarding the doc. “These answers are given more precisely and elegantly in the film than we could ever put into words. We invite the world to watch and reach their own conclusions.”
Meanwhile, the physical release of the documentary aligns with the February 25th kickoff of the Mars Volta’s North American tour supporting Deftones (get tickets here). The 26-show outing runs through April 9th in Newark, New Jersey.
Revisit the trailer for Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird below.