I went to the Metropolis showing at Dundas Square on Tuesday.

Metropolis is a silent film from 1927. The showing was accompanied with the beautiful live Trip Hop beats DJ’ing of Andrew McPherson.

I’ve never seen a silent film before, but it was absolutely amazing. The acting was passionate and expressive, despite not having a lot of dialogue (some dialogue was narrated in captions, but not much). The music was a perfect addition to it. It’s a whole new genre opened up to me, and I highly recommend it to anyone else.