Daft Punk Releases Human After All Video on Breakup Anniversary

On February 23, 2026, Daft Punk released a new music video for their 2005 single "Human After All," marking the fifth anniversary of the French electronic duo's breakup. The visual, edited by Cédric Hervet, draws exclusively from footage in their 2006 science fiction film "Electroma," depicting the robotic protagonists driving a vintage Ferrari through a vast desert before entering a sunlit town where all residents wear helmets.

The release coincides closely with the exact date of the duo's split announcement five years earlier, on February 22, 2021. That farewell video featured a poignant scene from "Electroma," in which one robot self-destructs while the other walks away alone, set to the track "Touch" from their final album, "Random Access Memories." The announcement displayed the years 1993-2021, signaling the end of a career that spanned nearly three decades and reshaped electronic music with hits like "One More Time" and the Grammy-winning "Get Lucky."

"Electroma," co-written and directed by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, follows the pair's signature robot characters on a quest for humanity across California's Mojave Desert. Unlike their earlier...