Spotlights flood across mirrors from centre of a futuristic floating structure, like stars whizzing past at light speed. Lighting dances in flashes across rotating LED panels. A golden glow rises up to the ceiling like we’re witnessing moments just after an eclipse, the sun overwhelming the eyes. 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.
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. 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…