Wednesday, 27 October 2010

German expressionism


I came across the album cover for Sunshine Underground, Nobody’s coming to save you. It put me in mind of the Metropolis film release poster. It was interesting more because of the strong use of vertical and horizontal lines that leads the eye upwards.



Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism.

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