Screening of Metropolis, with live piano accompaniment

Fitzwilliam Museum in collaboration with the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium: A screening of the silent science fiction film Metropolis with live piano accompaniment to coincide with the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish.

To coincide with the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition 'Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish' there will be a screening of Metropolis (Dir: Fritz Lang, 1927) with live piano accompaniment. This German expressionist science fiction film, set in a futuristic urban dystopia, follows wealthy Freder?s attempts to span the gulf separating him from Maria and her city of underground workers. Calibrated in their movement by oppressive machines, the workers are incited to riot by a Machinenmensch. Sculptor Walter Schulze-Mittendorff took a whole-body plaster cast of actress Brigitte Helm, for this deceptive robot which was constructed in 'plastic wood' to simulate its iconic metal effect. Introduced by Trish Sheil (Cambridgeshire Film Consortium) the film will be preceded by a short film montage of writing and images coming out of the writing workshops for adults and young people, inspired by the 'Silent Partners' exhibition.