"Metropolis" sets the standard for cinematic art in many ways, from its vivid imagination of the future, to its innovative realisation of architecture and bold experimentations in special effects. Its take on architecture was particularly remarkable: the metropolis of the film's title is a terrifying exaggeration of the modern city, with easily-recognizable architectural styles -- Art Deco, Bauhaus, early Modernism -- that were made gloomy and nightmarish. Bizarrely, in the decades after the film was made, real-life cities began to resemble the one in the film, as if "Metropolis" had subconsciously inspired architects to build monstrously-proportioned, inhuman housing projects and office complexes.

18:00 - 19:30 Panel Discussion with Ken Ip, Group Head of Marketing, B.S.C. Group and Gianni Talamini, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering City University of Hong Kong
19:30 Film Screening "Metropolis" (1927) with live sounds improvised by experimental techno artist AKF (Romantic Ecchi HK)

Venue address: B&B Italia, 31/H, China Online Center, 333 Lockhart Road, Wan Chai