METROPOLIS, Opening film at the SPeak Film Festival

METROPOLIS, with live score by Rubber Inc.
Opening Film
Sining, Pelikula at Kasaysayan (SPeaK) FIlm Festival
21 February 2007, 5pm
Faculty Center Conference Room, UP Diliman
Tickets: P50

The Goethe-Institute Manila joins the celebrations of 110 Years of Cinema in the Philippines by holding a special screening of the renowned 1927 film "Metropolis". The film, directed by Fritz Lang, opens the Sining, Pelikula at Kasaysayan (SPeaK) FIlm Festival, organized by the Mowelfund Film Institute in cooperation with the UNESCO "Memory of the World" Philippine Committee and the UP Department of Art Studies.

Incidentally, the festival will also serve as the launch for the Philippine chapter of the "Memory of the World" Committee, which recognizes and preserves the world's documentary heritage. In 2001, "Metropolis" became the very first film to be committed to UNESCO's "Memory of the World" Register.

The film is set in the year 2026, when the population is divided into two groups: the Thinkers, who enjoy and live in a futuristic city of splendor, and the Workers, who lead an archaic slave existence underground. Freder, son of the city's mastermind, sees the inhumane working conditions subjected to those living underground and abandons his privileged life to join the oppressed workers in a revolt. Widely considered the first science fiction film ever made, "Metropolis" is Fritz Lang's most popular and most celebrated film. It will be screened with a live score to be performed by electronic group Rubber Inc.

Paula Guevara
Program Department
Goethe-Institut Manila
4-5/F Adamson Centre
121 L.P. Leviste St.
Salcedo Village
1227 Makati City
Philippines
Tel 817 0978, 840 5723/4
Fax 817 0979
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