A Daft Punk Double Bill: Interstella 5555 & Electroma

Getting dangerously close to Daft Punk saturation point? Want to push yourself over the edge? For its very first outing, Sonic Celluloid will be immersing itself in the Daft Arts to present a double-bill of films created by the Gallic disco robotniks.

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)

Four blue-skinned alien musicians are snatched from their home planet by an evil record producer. Can the band ever recover their real identities and return back home? An animated sci-fi musical inspired by the 70s cartoons of Daft Punk’s youth co-created with Japanese anime legend Leiji Matsumoto and soundtracked to the group’s 2001 opus Discovery, this is an epic space-opera of friendship, music and intergalatic travel.


Electroma (2006)

A robot road movie set in the Californian desert described by its makers as “music for the eyes”, Daft Punk’s directorial debut after working with the likes of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry is a poetic and surreal visual spectacular telling the story of two aliens who fall to earth on a quest for human identities. With a soundtrack including Brian Eno, Todd Rundgren, Curtis Mayfield, Sebastien Tellier and stunning special effects from makeup maverick Tony Gardiner, Electroma is a Parisian midnight movie favourite that has to be experienced on the big screen.