American band OK Go has consistently made elaborate and wildly original music videos. From dancing on treadmills to marching bands, from an elaborate Rube Goldberg device to one featuring crazily coordinated motorised tricycle and drones, these videos have kept them in the public eye more than their music has.

The latest for their song Upside Down & Inside Out is a single take video (with some cheating), shot inside a zero gravity plane. Band members performing mid air acrobatics along with two flight attendants, amidst colourful paint balls and pinatas offer a funner, frenzied version of all movie scenes set in zero gravity spaceship environments.

Shot inside a plane that flies parabolic manoeuvres leading to brief periods of zero gravity, the video, though appearing seamless, was actually shot in phases.

Yes, it’s all one continuous take, but there’s a bunch of time removed. Again, the longest stretch of zero gravity we can get is about 27 seconds, and then it takes five minutes to reset to do it again. We wanted the whole video to take place in weightlessness, so we designed the routine in 27 second chunks, scenes that start and end right at the moments gravity is going and coming back. After we filmed a scene, when gravity returned, we stayed as still as we could for the five minutes of the plane climbing, and then began the next scene as soon as we were weightless again. When we were done, we chose our best take and cut out all of the long reset periods, so the routine is continuous and feels seamless. — OK Go (http://okgo.net/2016/02/11/upside-down-inside-out-faq/)

Parabolic flights go up and down in wave formation, inducing periods of microgravity and hyper-gravity, and have been used by space agencies to train astronauts.

This video was shot over eight parabolas, with all members and crew on anti-nausea drugs. The group briefly trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center before shooting on a Russian S7 plane, near Star City, Russia, a former secret Soviet Air Force facility.

Within the first five hours of the video going up on Facebook it garnered nearly five million views.

Here are two older videos by the band:

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