Daft Punk shooting a movie

Along an empty highway in an unnamed area where there is nothing but sand and dry tumbleweeds, and the only thing in sight is dusty mountains, a shiny Ferrari is racing. In the car are two figures in leather clothing and silver helmets. They silently pave their way into the unknown in search of their kind. But when they reach their destination, circumstances turn against them, forcing them to take extreme measures. In reality, the two are robots, and their desperate attempt to connect with humans only brings suffering. Briefly, this is the plot of Electroma, the latest audiovisual odyssey from Daft Punk, the French electronic duo consisting of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. In the 90s, they drove people crazy and tore up dance floors with their hits 'Around the World,' 'One More Time,' and 'Technologic.' And although these catchy songs with pounding beats were enjoyed almost on an instinctual level, in Daft Punk's work, one could always notice a hint of something aesthetically much greater. Electroma is the star duo's first step into another realm of creativity. The 74-minute creation with a storyline and several clearly defined characters is not just a fancy music video. Strangely, the soundtrack does not even feature music written by Daft Punk. Instead of Bangalter and de Homem-Christo, musical individualists thinking in the same direction worked on it - Todd Rundgren, Brian Eno, and even Curtis Mayfield. However, the most devoted fans of Daft Punk will say that formally Electroma is not the duo's first film. A collection of art videos under the concise title D.A.F.T.: A Story about Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes was made around their first album, Homework. The directors who took part in creating it included Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry. Following that, as a soundtrack to the anime Interstella 5555, the feature-length film Discovery appeared, which Daft Punk wrote and released not without the help of the maestro of 'space opera' Leiji Matsumoto. Part of this opus was the animated video for 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,' the story of a space royal family embarking on an intergalactic journey. The 10-minute ending of this film is quite sad: the space travelers meet their death in the dark vacuum, however, with an optimistic funky-house vocal. This work became a concentrated audiovisual version of Daft Punk's romance with a bittersweet taste of universal infinity. Electroma evokes similar feelings, albeit in a more abstract way. [Electroma](http://imdb.com/title/tt0800022/) debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this year and has already toured major European cities.