We’ve been doing the same thing on every show, and we thought how can we do something original? We’ve tried some things, but it didn’t really transport the energy or the production that we’ve had on a live show. We have been thinking of making a film like this for 10 years.

It’s also a part of the eye, and it’s also the name of a Goddess.Īnd when did you decide that you wanted to do another film – is it something that has been in the works for a long time? Yes, so we also wanted to have a female name. We wanted it to sound like a piece of artificial intelligence that welcomes you aboard on ship. Inspired by space film epics such as 2001: Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of a Third Kind, we caught up with Justice ahead of the release of Iris… Their latest behemoth of a project is Iris: A Space Opera by Justice, a 60-minute visual film of their 2017-2018 live show, minus an audience, and focusing around the mega floating booth. And at the centre, are two figures casting a mysterious shadow – Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay of French electronic duo Justice – emitting their euphoric, signature electronic sound we’ve come to know and love over the last decade. A golden glow rises up to the ceiling like we’re witnessing moments just after an eclipse, the sun overwhelming the eyes.

Lighting dances in flashes across rotating LED panels. Spotlights flood across mirrors from centre of a futuristic floating structure, like stars whizzing past at light speed.

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