One of the first cinematic depictions

of Artificial Intelligence was brought to theaters in 1927, in Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It "imagines a future cleaved in two, where the affluent from lofty skyscrapers rule over a subterranean castle of laborers," writes Synapse Analitics' Omar Abo Mosallam. "The class tension is so palpable that the invention of a maschinenmensch (a robot capable of work) upends the social order." The tirelessness of the machinenmensch sows havoc in the city whenit later dawns the form of a young woman named Maria. It "incites workers to rise up and destroy the machines that keep the city functioning." An unraveling of the social order.

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Originally an influential German science-fiction silent film, we are presently excited to bring to you a newly envisioned telling of Metropolis, inspired by Gorgio Moroder's 1986 remake where he features his production of an upbeat techno soundtrack.