Jeff Mills Cinemix of Metropolis Metropolis
About This Event
Jeff Mills brings his Cinemix of Metropolis to Roulette, presenting a live electronic score closely synced to the film and framed in a classical, score-minded context. A co-founder of Underground Resistance and founder of Axis Records, Mills moved from Detroit techno into live composition; his work favors precision and forward momentum, a focus that shapes this film-synchronized performance.
About Metropolis(film_score)
Horst von Harbou
Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent epic *Metropolis* maps a future city split between industrial labor and elite control, using expressionist design to turn social conflict into architecture. It helped set the visual grammar of feature-length science fiction and remains a reference point for films that imagine technology as governance. New York encountered it early through late-1920s engagements at major Manhattan houses, and it has since cycled through the city’s repertory and music scenes as a living artifact. At Roulette, Jeff Mills presents a tightly synchronized live electronic score, treating the film like a contemporary composition.
About the Artists
Jeff Mills Cinemix of Metropolis Metropolis
Jeff Mills brings his Cinemix of *Metropolis* to Roulette, drawing on a career that began in Detroit’s techno underground. A co-founder of Underground Resistance and the founder of Axis Records, he later extended his practice into live electronic performance and composition.
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.