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Futurism weekend
from 19 to May 21, 2023
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Metropolis

Orchestre de Paris - Kazushi Ōno
Film & Music Performance
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie
Duration: about 2h48

Program

Distribution

Martin Matalon
Metropolis
Film de Fritz Lang, Allemagne, 1927, nouvelle version restaurée
Orchestre de Paris
Kazushi Ōno , conducting

Metropolis—a legendary film, and the touchstone of expressionist cinema and dystopian imagination—is not only one of Fritz Lang’s masterpieces but surely one of the most analysed works in the history of the silver screen.

For the restored version of the film, Argentine composer Martin Matalon wrote a new soundtrack in 1995, initially written for sixteen instrumentalists and electronic sounds, and performed here for the first time in its orchestral version.

Following the film’s rhythmic structure, and thanks to spatialization effects made possible by the electronics, Matalon’s score becomes the musical double of Fritz Lang’s visual poem. Echoes of jazz and non-European music and acoustic and refracted sounds blend together, allowing situations and characters to be seen in a new light, prompting new assumptions, and contributing to the rich history of the interpretation of Metropolis.

Production Philharmonie de Paris en partenariat avec l'Ircam-Centre Pompidou. Avec l'autorisation de la Fondation Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Wiesbaden

Karina-Canellakis

Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

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Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B 

Address

221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris