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A gem. Daft Punk's widescreen debut is a beautiful, sun-blushed nugget of cinema. —THE GUARDIAN
DAFT PUNK'S ELECTROMA
January 11 & 12, 9:30
France 2006 // Directors: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo // 74 min // 35mm |
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VANCOUVER PREMIERE!
In a world without men, two lonely robots embark on an odyssey across a stark California landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human. A mythical, musical road movie from French electro-dance-music conceptualists Daft Punk, Electroma has become a midnight movie sensation since premiering at last year's Cannes selling out theatres across North America.
There's lots of music, but don't expect any Daft Punk tunes. Instead, the film captures their unique sensibility, while recalling such recent cult classics as Gus Van Sant's Gerry. With breathtaking cinematography, innovative filming techniques, and above all an underlying search for humanity within a dystopian environment, Daft Punk have delivered a film that finds a common thread with their previous work while exploring new cinematic horizons.
"The French duo Daft Punk's essential, career-defining insight is that the problem with disco the first time around was not that it was stupid but that it was not stupid enough." —The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, also known as Daft Punk, have created some of the most infectious and uncompromising music of their generation. In similar company with new-school French progressive dance artists such as Motorbass, Air, Cassius, and Dimitri from Paris, the Parisian duo quickly rose to acclaim by adapting a love for first-wave acid house and techno to their younger roots in pop, indie rock, and hip-hop. The name Daft Punk derives from a review of an early compilation tape in U.K. music weekly Melody Maker where their lo-fi D.I.Y. cover of a Beach Boys song was derided as "daft punk".
Renowned for their innovative use of visuals, the videos for their first album Homework were directed by cult directors, including Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry. Their second album Discovery was conceived as the soundtrack to the anime film Interstella 5555, which they wrote and produced in collaboration with Japanese artist Leiji Matsumoto. In 2005, they founded a film production company, Daft Arts, with Los Angeles-based produced Paul Han and editor Cedric Hervet. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo directed music videos for their songs Robot Rock and Technologic, the latter of which was honored with an MVPA nomination for Best Electronic Music Vidceo of the year.
"A piece of visceral art free from the traditional foundations of narrative filmmaking. It's a fully imagined experience." —ANTHEM
"Daft Punk is doing for midnight movies what the French electronica maestros did for disco: injecting the faded genre with their own brand of vitamin Cool." —WIRED
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