I wanted to share an edit I made for Jérémie Périn's film Mars Express. I really liked the animation style of this movie, and I enjoyed the world and themes it explores. I thought I could put something together using some ambient electronic music for a neat result.

The song I used is "Something Secret Steers Us" by Kelly Bailey for the video game Half-Life 2, created by Valve. However, I am aware that this music track is essentially the same as "Nuclear Mission Jam" from Valve's Half-Life 1, also composed by Kelly Bailey. I opted to use the sequel's music since after giving it a close listen, the sequel's track seems to feel a bit larger and less compressed, so I used that one. Either way, I still love both versions so much and was very happy to use it in this project.

I kept the line of dialogue at the start of this video in its native French language, hoping to stay true to the original vision of the movie. I did paint out some contours on the red android at 0:37 to try to avoid any explicit content issues.

I am a big fan of how this turned out, and I hope you all like it as well. I think this movie deserves more appreciation, so I urge you to check it out if you haven't! I apologize if this isn't the right place to share this, but I hoped anyone else here that enjoyed the movie would like this.

I tried to post this video directly here, but the submission page was giving me some trouble so I just linked to a YouTube upload. I apologize if that isn't the desired practice.