CRAFT & ENCODE present: Metropolis (2001)

Osamu Tezuka is the 'godfather of manga', having made classics such as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. In 1949 he created Metropolis, after seeing a single still image of Fritz Lang's 1927 classic of the same name. In 2001, anime director Shigeyuki Hayashi AKA Rintaro released the film adaptation of Tezuka's classic.

Those familiar with Fritz Lang's Metropolis will note the similarities immediately: tall ziggurats, future cities, a feminine robot. The story that emerges is three creatives in dialogue -- Lang, Tezuka and Rintaro -- inflected by the Japanese Shinto belief in the spiritual life of all objects.

Join us at Verdensteatret to experience the film together. Stay for our discussion afterwards, curated by Gaute Barlindhaug of the ENCODE group at UiT. We are keen to discuss the movie with the audience, particularly with an eye toward themes of gender and robotics.

The screening of Metropolis is the 16th in a series of films on autonomous technologies,  AI, and human-machine relations presented by CRAFT and ENCODE in cooperation with Verdensteatret Cinematek.

Tickets can be bought online here or directly in at Verdensteatret Cinematek.