Film
Drama
History
Music
Sci-fi

Metropolis x Kinetophone

Sat 11 Apr from 20:00 till 23:00

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Country

Germany

Year

1927

Language

no dialogue, German intertitles with English subtitles

Actors

Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, , Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Director

Fritz Lang

Duration

153 min

Fritz Lang's impressive German expressionist masterpiece heralded the science fiction genre 100 years ago. This beautiful nightmare of a film classic can now be seen on our big screen with live music by Kinetophone.

Metropolis - the year 2027: humanity is divided into a thinking class and a working class. The son of a capitalist falls in love with the charismatic Maria, who preaches against the use of violence to the workers. However, she is a threat to the wealthy class, and they decide to enlist the scientist Rotwang to develop a robot that looks just like Maria, so that it can take her place.

The story goes that legendary filmmaker Fritz Lang was so overwhelmed by the Manhattan skyline during his first visit to America in 1924 that he decided to make a film about the city of the future. This eventually became the silent film classic Metropolis, written by Lang's wife Thea von Harbou. This cinematic marvel remains one of the most influential science fiction films in film history.

Kinetophone

Since 2010, Kinetophone has been providing live accompaniment to silent film classics and has won audience awards at various festivals. Kinetophone writes tailor-made music and is not afraid to experiment: atonal soundscapes are effortlessly interwoven with lyrical melodies and adapted versions of pop songs and show tunes. Kinetophone bridges the gap between the visual splendour of yesteryear and the auditory expectations of today's audience. Iconic images supported by sound full of lyricism and adventure.

Kinetophone performed their compositions live from beneath the screen at Ciné Premières, Noorderzon, and Imagine Film Festival (NL), Festiwal Spoiwa Kultury (PL) and Internationales Festival des zeitgenössischen (DU), among others. Over the past ten years, they have composed music for films by Abel Gance, Benjamin Christensen, Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac & Luis Buñuel. The trio consists of René Duursma, Thomas van den Berg, and Sebastiaan Wiering.