[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here’s a type of feeling you get when watching director Lorena Endara’s Super 8mm music video for É Arenas stoner anthem Mar Iguana. It’s sort of like eating an edible and throwing on Pink Flamingo. Or if John Waters directed an episode of Power Rangers.
Maybe that’s why Univision decided to back out of premiering the video, Endara told L.A. Taco. It was too much of a stoner portrait. Ironically, the song and video touch on the stigma of marijuana, even in the legal weed capital.
The song by Chicano Batman bassist É Arenas is about a pot smoking reptile, Endara explained. “It’s literally about a marine iguana who loves smoking weed but has a deep-rooted worry about his friends who are locked up for related crimes despite the fact that California recently legalized the use of recreational marijuana.”
Her vision, is as inventive and fun as the song, the title of which is a play on words. A mar iguana translates to an iguana of the sea but it’s also a playful way to say “marijuana”.