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)
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 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.