D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen, and Tomatoes

Daft Punk

Overview

The witty French electronic duo Daft Punk collect five of their best videos on this DVD, which features the songs "Da Funk" (in a video directed by Spike Jonze), "Burnin'," "Revolution 909," "Around the World," and "Fresh." In addition, the video includes "Rollin' and Scratchin' Live in L.A.," which captures Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo performing for a packed house during an American tour stop in California.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/15/1999
UPC:	0724349227699
Original Release:	2000
Source:	Parlophone Int'l
Region Code:	2
Language:	English
Sales rank:	45,523

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Daft Punk

Performer,Primary Artist,Actor

Technical Credits

Michel Gondry	Director
Seb Janiak	Director
Roman Coppola	Director
Spike Jonze	Director

Editorial Reviews

House music is often accused of being cold and inhuman, a form so preoccupied with the pursuit of the perfect beat that it fails to connect with anything above the knees. The wriggling techno-funk concocted by the French duo Daft Punk defiantly shatters that stereotype, revealing a playful sense of humor and warmth beneath its dense grooves. It's no surprise then that the five Daft music videos collected on D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen, and Tomatoes would take a similarly irreverent -- and in some cases, convention-breaking -- approach. The DVD's pièce de resistance is surely Gallic director Michel Gondry's "Around the World," an ingeniously choreographed dance number whose hypnotic, alien pull perfectly syncs up with that of the accompanying sounds. The inspiration behind this and the DVD's four other clips (including Spike Jonze's bizarro mini-film about Charles The Dog Boy that doubles as the video for "Da Funk") are detailed through behind-the-scenes documentaries, directors' commentaries -- Jonze's being especially goofy -- and storyboards. The disc's flip side even includes a live performance video shot in Los Angeles that offers up nine different camera angles from which to choose, effectively allowing the viewer to create his or her own beguiling Daft video.