Daft Punk Releases New Contact Video with Fortnite Visuals

Daft Punk has released a new official music video for their track "Contact," the closing song from their 2013 album Random Access Memories, featuring visuals inspired by the popular video game Fortnite.

The animated clip, produced by Fortnite developer Epic Games in collaboration with immersive media studio Magnopus, reimagines the opening sequence of The Daft Punk Experience, an interactive event that launched inside Fortnite in September. In the video, the duo's iconic robot characters float through space above Earth, embarking on a cosmic journey toward a flashing signal. The sequence includes nods to key moments from their career, such as imagery reminiscent of their 2003 anime film Interstella 5555, and escalates in intensity to match the song's slow-building structure, from serene zero-gravity drifts to an explosive climax. It opens with an audio snippet from NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972, courtesy of astronaut Capt. Eugene Cernan.

Magnopus, which consulted Daft Life—the company representing Daft Punk—to align the visuals with the duo's creative vision, described the project as an extension of the Fortnite experience. "We took the opening sequence from the game and...