Daft Punk: The Movie
Electroma is the directorial feature film debut from Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, better known together as Daft Punk. A psychedelic visual and musical odyssey, Electroma follows the journey of two robots on their quest to become human.
Two robots drive through the Southwestern American landscape in a 1987 Ferrari 412. They arrive at a small town in Inyo County, California where the townspeople are robots living a suburban existence.
They drive up to a high-tech facility where liquid latex is poured over their heads and meticulously shaped into human faces. Pleased with their new human appearance, they walk down the road to the astonishment of everyone else around. When the duo's faces start to melt in the sun, the locals realise that they aren’t real humans after all, and begin to chase after them. They take cover in a room and reluctantly peel off the ruined masks.
Leaving the town and their dream of becoming human behind, they begin a lengthy and ultimately perilous hike across the desert salt flats.
Electroma is without dialogue and plays host to a brilliant soundtrack put together by music supervisor, Steven Baker, featuring tracks from Todd Rundgren (International Feel), Brian Eno (In Dark Trees), Curtis Mayfield (Billy Jack), Sebastien Tellier (Universe), Chopin, Haydn, Allegri, Linda Perhacs (If You Were My Man) and Jackson Carey Frank (Dialogue).
Electroma will be released by because.tv in selected cinemas across the UK in July & August 2007 and on DVD on 3 September 2007
Electroma will screen at the following venues across the UK:
12 July Latitude Festival, Suffolk
15 July MAC, Birmingham
3-10 August Ritzy Brixton
4 August Duke of Yorks, Brighton
10-11 August Irish Film Institute Dublin
13 August Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
25 August Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
28 August Broadway Nottingham
29 August Showroom Sheffield
30 August Glasgow Film Theatre
31 August (tbc) Electric Picnic Festival, Dublin
Other venues in the UK are still to be confirmed.