Screening & Performance: Metropolis
Under the direction of Jen Gilleran, Seattle experimental music collective GRID will present a new live musical score to Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 German expressionist film, Metropolis. Set in a futuristic urban dystopia this film follows Johann Fredersen, the mastermind and labor barron of Metropolis, his son Freder, and the virtuous Maria. Upon seeing the heroine among her people Fredersen commissions the scientist Rotwang to build a robot in her likeness though which he hopes to use to gain influence over the city’s workers. The plan is foiled at the last moment by Freder and the real Maria who manage to divert the mass hysteria and form a new civic utopia.
Under the direction of Jen Gilleran, Seattle experimental music collective GRID will present a new live musical score to Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 German expressionist film, Metropolis. Set in a futuristic urban dystopia this film follows Johann Fredersen, the mastermind and labor barron of Metropolis, his son Freder, and the virtuous Maria. Upon seeing the heroine among her people Fredersen commissions the scientist Rotwang to build a robot in her likeness though which he hopes to use to gain influence over the city’s workers. The plan is foiled at the last moment by Freder and the real Maria who manage to divert the mass hysteria and form a new civic utopia.
