If robots blow themselves up in the desert, who watches? Everyone, apparently, if we know what's good for us. With a smattering of musical incursions by Brian Eno, Chopin, Curtis Mayfield and Todd Rundgren and no dialogue, Daft Punk's 70-minute robo-epic Electroma is forcing people to ponder their ability to stay awake for what absolutely has to be a cult classic. Says The Guardian:
It's a provocative, at times pretentious and laboured, meditation upon technology's omnipotence in the modern world and the equally prevalent theme of identity. It also features two robots walking through the salt flats of California. For what seems like for ever.
Guardian missed the point. Ask this dude on YouTube, he knows:
I watched this when I was so fucking wasted, and it was rad ass. I saw it in LA. For five bucks. I was the third person in line baby
That's right, it's rad ass, just add drugs. And for those who take too many drugs to pay attention for that long, there's the YouTube distillation:
But you still feel like you're missing something, right? Come on people, don't you get it? Wired explained why we gotta like Electroma. “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.” See? You're taking your cool vitamins. So strap yourself in that movie seat and get your dose before sneaking clips of I, Robot.
SCREENING DATES FOR DAFT PUNK'S ELECTROMA
(arranged delightfully like a music tour… do they only have one reel of film?)
SEPTEMBER
08 MONTREAL, QC OSHEAGA FESTIVAL
15 MINNEAPOLIS, MN UPTOWN THEATER
20 HOUSTON, TX ANGELICA THEATER, Q FESTIVAL
22 BALTIMORE, MD CREATIVE ALLIANCE
OCTOBER
19 ST. LOUIS, MO TIVOLI THEATER
20 DENVER, CO THE ESQUIRE
20 ST. LOUIS, MO TIVOLI THEATER
21 ST. LOUIS, MO TIVOLI THEATER (10pm)
NOVEMBER
02 LOS ANGELES, CA THE NU ART
09 LOS ANGELES, CA THE NU ART
30 SAN FRANCISCO, CA THE CLAY
30 SAN DIEGO, CA THE KEN CINEMA
DECEMBER
01 SAN FRANCISCO, CA THE CLAY
01 SAN DIEGO, CA THE KEN CINEMA
