Watching the film without audio practically removes most of its appeal, and listening to Discovery without seeing the film is definitely an incomplete experience.
I personally think every pressing of Discovery should feature a digital copy of Interstella 5555, because without each other, they fall flat. And although the film and the album aren’t technically groundbreaking, both provide an experience that is rich, and at times, immersive. Save for a few sound effects here and there, we are left with visuals and music to piece the story together. But remarkably, the film features zero dialogue, narration or even annotations. It basically serves as a visual representation of the album, accompanying each track in Discovery – yes, every scene in the film starts and finishes with a cut from the album, the whole way through. Interstella 5555 is a sci-fi adventure featuring four alien band members that are kidnapped and taken from their home planet and eventually sent to Earth only to become musical slaves. In this case, Daft Punk definitely hit the mark.
Often this type of a project tends to hurt the original work rather than add to it. The larger story is in fact a full-length feature anime film named Interstella 5555, written in part by Leiji Matsumoto, director of the legendary anime series Space Battleship Yamato, and the French House duo themselves. If you’ve ever stumbled across any of Daft Punk’s music videos from their 2001 release Discovery and felt as though they were simply pieces in a larger story, you’d be right.
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