3. June 2024 | Jeff Mills Performs Metropolis Metropolis @ Gartenbaukino (Vienna)
um 18:45h – 21:00h | Performance SOLD OUT!Jeff Mills, one of the great representatives of Detroit techno, has always had two other obsessions besides music: space and film. Over the years he has released records inspired by his favorite films – such as the short film LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (The Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès from 1902 or the science fiction film FANTASTIC VOYAGE from 1966.
However, no other film has occupied, influenced and inspired him as much as Fritz Lang’s silent film METROPOLIS (1927). In 2000, Mills scored the film for the first time, capturing the Art Deco architecture and scenes of proletarian revolt in shimmering, abstract synth sounds and driving techno. Ten years later, he wrote a new score that was intended to take the perspective of the film’s characters.
“Metropolis Metropolis,” his third original composition based on the film, is intended to represent the machines in the movie. Divided into six suite-like tracks, the 75-minute album is Mills’ most extensive treatment of Lang’s masterpiece to date.
However, Jeff Mills will play the entire restored version of the 2010 film live on the Gartenbaukino stage – almost two and a half hours!
Warm up & cool down in the foyer: Patrick Pulsinger
METROPOLIS
A film from the collection of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation ( www.murnau-stiftung.de ) in Wiesbaden
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On the sensational, almost complete reconstruction of the original premiere version from 1927 in 2010:
The return of Metropolis is one of the most important reconstructions and restorations in film history. Fritz Lang’s masterpiece, which was the first film to be included in the UNESCO World Documentary Heritage, is now available again in digital quality in the almost complete premiere version from 1927.
Direction Fritz Lang
script Thea von Harbou
camera Karl Freund, Günther Rittau
cut Fritz Lang
Music Gottfried Huppertz
Scene image Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht
Tickets* € 33.-
* Can only be purchased online!
* Reservations can be made in the cinema or by phone (+43 1 512 2354) and email (kino@gartenbaukino.at).
* We ask for your understanding that reserved tickets must be picked up within one week.
Performance SOLD OUT!
“”BLADE RUNNER, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and METROPOLIS are the three films in the science fiction genre by which all others must be measured.””
Christopher Nolan
