{"id":31747,"date":"2026-09-17T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liff.nl\/Film\/film-concert-metropolis-x-wishful-singing-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:24:34","slug":"film-concert-metropolis-x-wishful-singing-en","status":"publish","type":"films_cpt","link":"https:\/\/www.liff.nl\/en\/Film\/film-concert-metropolis-x-wishful-singing-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Concert: Metropolis x Wishful Singing en"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-31747","films_cpt","type-films_cpt","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"customTitle":"Film Concert: Metropolis x Wishful Singing","customShortText":"","customText":"","eventCustomKey":"","title":"","subTitle":"","customSubTitle":"","shortText":"Technology comes to life while humanity is pushed to the margins of society: this is Metropolis<\/em>, Fritz Lang’s irresistible 1927 classic. A cappella ensemble Wishful Singing performs a live score to this silent film, composed by Steven Kamperman.","text":"Technology comes to life, while humanity is pushed to the margins of society: this is Metropolis<\/em>, Fritz Lang’s irresistible 1927 classic. A cappella ensemble Wishful Singing performs a brand-new live score for this silent film, composed by Steven Kamperman. What is a machine? What is a human? And what happens when we can no longer tell the two apart?

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