Lena Luca - Rosebuds (Featuring: Tara the Android)

Years ago, a viral video circulated on the internet featuring an uncanny homemade android. This video was known as the “I Feel Fantastic“ video. The origins were unknown. A mythology erupted around the maker of the film, his motives, his past, but no definitive answers were forthcoming. Our music video attempts to explore what happened to Tara the Android and her creator. In the process, we want to treat the emergent folklore of the internet sincerely. What drove John Bergeron to create Tara? Is it the same impulse that drives us to create and fetishize female pop femininity? What would happen if his creation demanded her freedom? These are the questions we wanted to explore. In taking on Tara’s story we made a deliberate choice to look at a meme as if it contained secret knowledge, deserving of interrogation. The myths, jokes, and pranks of the early internet may someday become the foundational stories we tell around the campfire. We wanted to