Vox Lumiere - Metropolis - Building

Vox Lumiere is rock concert meets silent film, in an exciting and radical retelling of timeless movie masterpieces.

Here Vox Lumiere's eight singers and 5-piece band perform live new music to a Fritz Lang's Sci Fi masterpiece - Metropolis.

Generally considered the first great science-fiction film, Metropolis fixed for the rest of the century the image of a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress and human despair. From this film, in various ways, descended ``Dark City'', ``Blade Runner,'' ``The Fifth Element,'' and Batman's Gotham City. The laboratory of its evil genius, Rotwang, created the visual look of mad scientists for decades to come.

Metropolis employs vast sets, 25,000 extras and astonishing special effects to create two worlds: the great city of Metropolis, with its stadiums, skyscrapers and expressways in the sky, and the subterranean workers' city, where the clock face shows 10 hours to cram another day into the workweek. Lang's film is the summit of German Expressionism, the combination of stylized sets, and dramatic camera angles.

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[bradondo]

Very cool stuff! This must have been a great show. One of my all-time favorite films. Just curious--did you use the newest restored edition of the film for this project? Most other cuts have removed most of the religious symbolism from the film and that footage is intregal to appreciating what Lang and von Harbou intended it to be. Great idea and a perfect film to work with for this sort of groundbreaking performance art! Five Stars!

[pubsterguy]

absolutley great keep up the good work