Were you emotional when you watched the film back for the first time? Finally for the first time in 10 years, we managed it…

We tried to capture what we liked about the show from the last tour, and the main achievement was to recreate a visual of this show that we are proud of. These are films that look very heavy and are very slow, and are very low-tech, in a way? We really mined the aesthetic from movies like Blader Runner or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a movie that is set in sort of like space environment, so it feels epic. What is your definition of a space opera? And because there’s no distraction, you can focus fully on the music and on the visual side of it. This way you get rid of all your expectations as a viewer.

So we thought maybe we should film it without an audience, and not in a concert venue. 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.

Iris a space opera by justice