Daft Punk Unchained Documentary Airs This Friday

Definitely a must watch for all Daft Punk fans

‘Daft Punk-Unchained’, the film about the pop culture phenomenon that is Daft Punk airs this Friday on BBC 4 at 10pm.  The duo who have 12 million albums sold worldwide and seven Grammy awards.  Last year, they released the movie to French TV it gets its UK and Ireland airing this Friday on BBC 4 at 10pm.  Directed by Hervé Martin Delpierre and co-written by Delpierre and Marina Rozenman, the documentary features appearances from Kanye West, Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Michel Gondry, Paul Williams, Todd Edwards, photographer Peter Lindbergh, Pete Tong, former Daft Punk manager/Ed Banger founder Pedro Winter, designer Tony Gardner, and artist Leiji Matsumoto.

Throughout their career Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have always resisted compromise and the established codes of show business. They have remained determined to maintain control of every link in the chain of their creative process. In the era of globalisation and social networks, they rarely speak in public and neither do they show their faces on TV.

This documentary explores this unprecedented cultural revolution, revealing two artists on a permanent quest for creativity, independence and freedom. Between fiction and reality, magic and secret, future and reinvention, theatricality and humility, The Robots have built a unique world.

The film combines rare archive footage as well as exclusive interviews with their closest collaborators who talk about their work with Daft Punk, including Pharrell Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers,  Michel Gondry and more.

It features music from Alive 2007, Daft Club, Homework, Human After All.