INSTITUT 008 | live score | ASTORIA X METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, 1927)

Set in a futuristic city divided between industrial labour and elite control, Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) remains one of the defining works of early science fiction cinema.
A mechanized dystopia where bodies become extensions of machines — and resistance emerges through fracture, rhythm, and repetition.

Vol 8: a synthesizer-driven re-interpretation of silent cinema.
A closer look at how electronic sound reshapes image — from orchestral narrative to pulse, structure, and pressure.

This is VOLUME 8 of the INSTITUT experiment.
Every week, a different hypothesis.

Underground at 620 Spadina Ave — around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door...

Come early for a residency rooted in folk tradition. Stay for banned Ukrainian poetic cinema. Or arrive for the score — and remain into the late hours.

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5:30 PM | RESIDENCY | KRYVA KOSA FOLK BAND
7:30 PM | FILM | Eve on Ivan Kupala (Yuri Illienko, 1968)
BANNED UKRAINIAN POETIC CINEMAcurated by Pylyp Ilienko

9:30 PM | LIVE SCORE | ASTORIA x Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
11:00 PM | VINTAGE VINYL | SHAUNT RAFFI

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ASTORIA is a Toronto-based, producer-driven project working across tango, synth-driven composition, house, and Latin music.Built around the work of Jonathan Gejtman, the project draws from a background spanning film, television, and advertising — recontextualizing traditional forms through electronic production.Referencing the legacy of Astor Piazzolla while moving into a more synthetic, rhythm-forward language, ASTORIA treats composition as structure — something that can be looped, fractured, and rebuilt in real time.

For Metropolis, this approach shifts the film’s original orchestral logic into something more mechanical: repetition over melody, tension over resolution, signal over sentiment.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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