Daft Punk - Revolution 909

What this video is

Released in February 1998 as the fifth and final single from Daft Punk's debut album Homework, 'Revolution 909' arrived at the apex of the French Touch movement's international breakthrough. The video directly engages the political reality of France's anti-rave legislation and police suppression of underground dance events — a tension articulated publicly by Thomas Bangalter. The surreal instructional tomato…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of the French Touch movement's visual identity, this video represents the genre's self-aware political dimension beyond pure dancefloor hedonism. Coppola's dual-narrative structure — realist rave raid intercutting with surrealist instructional film — established a template for…

The director

Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American filmmaker and music video director, son of Francis Ford Coppola. He is founder and owner of The Directors Bureau, a commercial and music video production company established in 1996. In the 1990s he…