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Director: Writer: Producer: DP: Editor: Studio: Year: TRT: Language: Subtitles: Genre: Ratio: |
Man with the Movie Camera Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov Mikhail Kaufman Yelizaveta Svilova VUFKU Film Arts Guild 1929 68 min. silent English Experimental 1.33:1 |
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| Russians Workers |
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| Vertov's filmic painting and filmed political treatise and manifesto. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| commentary by Yuri Tsivian | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Remarkable documentary which has been extremely influential since it was released, and is one of the earliest examples of a long format non-narrative film. True, it can be catalogued as a documentary, but it is one of the earliest films which blurred the lines between documentary and narrative and art. Although there is no narrative, the film clearly has a narrative structure and indeed tells the cities story. However, this construction arises naturally through the city itself, and the shape given it by Vertov’s camera and editing. Rather than constructing an artificial reality for a camera, Vertov experimented with shaping reality using a camera. It is one of the first and most historically significant films in which the camera itself, the kino eye, was thought about as a tool for creating and not just recording. |
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