Metropolis with a live performance
"Metropolis", a masterpiece of silent movie, has been attached music by many musicians from 1927, the year of the first showing. Modern musicians, Yuko Ikoma, Umitaro Abe and Kosuke Shimizu, stay in Kanazawa and compose music for this showing. They will play music (on the accordion, the piano, the contrabass and the handmade musical instrument etc.) to the film.
Date: Sep. 19 sat. [The first performance] 11:00
[The second performance] 16:00
Place: Theater 21 of 21st Century Museum
Fee: advance 3,000 yen / door 3,500 yen
Metropolis
Metropolis
1927 Germany 93min. monochrome silent 16mm
Directed by Fritz Lang
Written by Thea von Harbou
Cinematography: Karl Freund, Gunther Rittau
Special effects by
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
The future city, Metropolis, seemed to have skyscrapers and be brought high standard of civilization and prosperity. However it was a hierarchical society that was separated into the privileged classes and the working class in fact. Maria of robot made from beautiful girl of the working class instigated the oppressed and broke out a revolution. This film is not only a monumental landmark in SF movie but also an icon of the culture.
Profiles of performers
Yuko Ikoma (mama! milk)
An accordion, a hand music box and a foot organ, etc. musical instruments and people that she met make her playing music. She handled music of many movies, stages, animations and CF. She plays the accordion in "mama! milk" and performs all over the world.
http://www.mamamilk.net
Umitaro Abe
He was born in 1978. Musician and composer. He plays his music on the piano, the violin and the pandeiro etc.. He studied in Tokyo University of the Arts and Sorbonne. These days, he handles music of Shakespeare works directed by Yukio Ninagawa, CF and movies.
http://theatremusica.com/
Kosuke Shimizu（mama! milk）
He started a musical performance from teenage. He experienced various things, improvisation and contemporary dance etc.. Now he plays an active role as a contrabass player in "mama! milk" and others. He also handles design of stage when he collaborates with dance or works of image.
http://www.mamamilk.net
