There are films and directors whose influence cannot be overstated. Stanley Kubrick and The Shining, subjects of a recent documentary, are two of these. Roman Polanski, criminal or not, is another. These, among others, are some of the works that influenced artists Christina Vantzou and Kristina Ianatchkova regarding their upcoming short film Going Backwards to Recover That Which Was Left Behind.
Stanley Kubrick
The Groove Seeker: Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy soundtrack
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Daft Punk: Tron: Legacy soundtrack (Walt Disney Records, 12/7/2010)
Daft Punk: “End of Line”
[audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/12-daft_punk-end_of_line.mp3|titles=Daft Punk: “End of Line”]Daft Punk fans have been waiting five years for this. Tron fans have been waiting close to thirty years. As the Tron: Legacy soundtrack is Daft Punk’s first release of new material since 2005 album Human After All, there seems to be no other logical way that the French DJ duo could have staged its return.
In a perfect marriage of aesthetics that only the Master Control Program could have arranged, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have left their grand discothèque anthems and enlisted an 85-piece orchestra to build an ambitious sonic accompaniment to Tron: Legacy’s parallel digital universe.