You’ll remember that last summer Daft Punk’s long-awaited and self-directed experimental film, “Electroma,” finally received a limited release run in North America.
Here’s what we wrote:
The silent feature – which isn’t really new – had its debut at Cannes in 2006, but it will finally hit North America this summer. Don’t expect a regular film either: the French robotic dance duo’s film is more an abstract visual experience or an art exhibit than a regular narrative and sort of looks like a modern version of Michaelangelo Antonioni’s ’70s acid-failure, “Zabriskie Point,” if it were scored by Battlestar Galatica musicians mixed with a bit of Stanley Kubrick hauntedness and the endless tracking shots of Vincent Gallo’s “Brown Bunny.”
The theatrical run was fairly small though, so fans will now be able to get their hands on the DVD come July 22. Special features on the DVD includes special packaging in steelbook case with 40 page photo booklet of film stills in both regular and Blu-Ray editions.
As previously reported, here’s a list of all the music used in “Electroma.” You might be surprised to know that no actual Daft Punk music is used in the film and instead the Gallic robots use tracks from Brian Eno, Todd Rundgren, Sebastian Tellier and ’70s cult astral folkie Linda Perhacs .
Download: Daft Punk – “Human After All”
Download: Jackson C. Frank – “Dialogue”
Download: Linda Perhacs – “Parallelograms”
Watch: Sebastien Tellier – “Universe”
Watch: “Electroma” teaser trailer
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2008. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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