Live Music

METROPOLIS

VOX LUMIERE

Vox Lumiere shatters the boundaries between concert hall and cinema, creating an electrifying fusion that’s part rock show, part theatrical spectacle, part cinematic journey.

Experience Fritz Lang’s Metropolis like never before. Vox Lumiere’s award-winning singers and musicians transform this iconic 1927 silent masterpiece into a thrilling live experience feeding three-dimensional life into the film with original rock, pop, and orchestral scores that sync perfectly with every dramatic moment on screen. Expect to be pulled into the story itself.

Award-winning composer Kevin Saunders Hayes soul-pumping anthems performed by world-class musicians and singers create an immersive world where past and present collide, where silent becomes sonic, where you don’t just watch, you feel every beat, every note, every story.

This is Vox Lumiere, Silents you can hear®

METROPOLIS (1927, Germany)

Fritz Lang claimed to have been inspired to make Metropolis by his first glimpse of the New York skyline. The result is the grandest science fiction film of the silent era, a seminal prediction of a megacity where the masses work as slaves for the good of a ruling elite.

The DNA of huge swathes of sci-fi cinema is traceable in Lang’s production, from the mad-scientist creation of the robot Maria, which would feed into Hollywood’s Frankenstein (1931), to the imposing Art Deco cityscapes, which became the model for later depictions of dystopian cities, from Blade Runner (1982) to Brazil (1985). The strikingly angular set design is characteristic of the German Expressionist cinema of the 1920s.

“A revolutionary film in both form and content.” Jason Dorwart

“Unrivalled for beauty and visual imagination, this film is the passage between 19th-century folklore and fairytale, on the one hand, and a future full of multiple genre possibilities and iffy political questions on the other.” Meaghan Morris

Directed by Fritz Lang

Produced by Erich Pommer

Written by Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou

Featuring Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich

Running Time 137 minutes

Sat 10 Oct, 7.30pm

Two Sisters’ Theatre