September 13: MODULATIONS: Cinema for the Ear (1998) by Iara Lee

5pm | Sunday, September 13, 2026 | Alliance Française Lagos, 9 Osborne Road, Ikoyi | Free Entry

Walk with us down the history lane of house and electronic music on Sunday, September 13 for the screening of MODULATIONS: Cinema for the Ear. The festure-length documentary is part of acclaimed filmmaker Iara Lee’s Cultures of Resistance Films.
Join us at Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre. Screening starts at 5pm prompt (doors open at 4.30pm). An excellent recommendation from our friends at HousexHousexHouse, this one is for the history and music buffs. Tell a friend and bring two more!

ABOUT THE FILM
We are not entertainers, we are sound scientists – Kraftwerk
Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today’s most exciting sounds.
It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk’s innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder’s glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa’s electro-funk, and Prodigy’s current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound.
The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation.
Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today’s electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica’s nay-sayers.
Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

Genre: Documentary, Music
Running time: 75 minutes
Language(s): English
Director: Iara Lee
Producer: George Gund III
Production Managers: David Read, J.D. Frantz
Music: George Moroder
Director of Photography and Cinematographer: Marcus Burnett, Paul Yates
Editor: Paula Heredia
Assistant Editor: Rhonda L. Mitrani
Music Research Consultant: Peter Shapiro
Story Editor: Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz
Post-Production Supervisor: Zachary Mortensen

Trailer – MODULATIONS: Cinema for the Ear

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Alliance Française de Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre (or @af.lagos) is a Nigerian-run non-profit institution dedicated to the promotion of French language and francophone cultures, which also provides support to the local arts community. It provides French language classes and promotes an alternative model for culture.