Jeff Mills Cinemix of Metropolis Metropolis
About This Event
At Roulette, Jeff Mills presents his Cinemix of Metropolis. A co-founder of Underground Resistance and founder of Axis Records, Mills emerged from Detroit’s techno underground and later moved into live electronic and compositional work. His live sets favor precision and momentum over spectacle, a measured approach he brings to the Cinemix format, linking his techno lineage with live concert practice.
About Metropolis(film_score)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, based on von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name. It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–1926 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €21 million.
About the Artist
Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills is an American DJ, producer, and composer shaped by Detroit’s techno underground. He co-founded the collective Underground Resistance in the late 1980s before moving into a solo practice in the early 1990s, and later established Axis Records in 1992 as a platform for much of his recorded work.