So obviously, when I saw that Daft Punk was re-releasing their 2003 animated film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem and that it would be playing at Seattle’s SIFF Uptown theater, I got a ticket. The animated film sets the 2001 album Discovery to a story about an extraterrestrial band who’s kidnapped and brought to Earth by a power-hungry music executive who makes them massively popular and exploits their talent.
(she/her) Gray Harrison is a writer and critic with a lifelong love of the performing arts. In 2023, she finished her Masters in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU Journalism, where she learned to apply her fiction-writer's eye to real-world arts journalism. She has reported on music festivals, hosted her own radio shows, and written podcast episodes doing deep-dives into albums. This winter, Gray interned on the editorial team writing music news stories for Relix magazine, and she most recently started a position as a movie and TV features writer at Collider. In addition to her love of music and cinema, Gray hopes to bring her involvement in the Seattle dance scene to her writing for The Evergreen Echo.
