Sassari composer Luigi Frassetto aptly recalled ten days ago in Olbia, during the Music for Film seminar, that "silent cinema never actually existed," because "musical accompaniment was expected from the very beginning."

Anyone familiar with "Metropolis," one of the masterpieces of silent cinema, knows this well. The celebrated film by the great Fritz Lang and the relationship between cinema and music inspire the third and final preview event of the Tavolara Film Festival "A Night in Italy": the cine-concert "Metropolis," scheduled for Saturday, June 27th at 9:00 PM in Porto San Paolo.

Conceived by Frassetto himself, the project features a soundtrack composed by him from scratch, which will be performed live in Piazza Gramsci by pianist, synthesist, composer and professor at the Sassari Conservatory Pietro Dossena and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Manuel Attanasio.

Made in 1927, "Metropolis" is one of the great films of the silent era and one of the works that most shaped the science fiction imagination of the twentieth century. Nearly a century after its release, Lang's futuristic city continues to speak to the present: the relationship between man and machine, the division between the ruling classes and the working masses, power, technology, and inequality remain at the heart of a vision that still retains a surprising power today.

In the preview of the 36th edition of the Tavolara Film Festival, the film is brought to life in a new contemporary soundtrack, conceived by Frassetto and performed live by two electronic musicians who combine composition, experimentation, and sound research. This is an opportunity to rediscover a masterpiece of cinematic history through the unique experience of a cineconcert, where the screening becomes a direct encounter between image, music, and public space.

All proceeds (tickets cost €2 plus a €1 advance ticket, available on CinemaOlbia.it) will be donated to charity.

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