Man with a Movie Camera [U]

Tuesday 18 August 20:15
Wednesday 19 August 17:00

Full £7.90, Senior/Members £6.75 , Young People/Students £5.50

1929 | Soviet Union | Black & White | 1hr 8m
Director: Dziga Vertov
Cast: Mikhail Kaufman

Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s experimental film grew out of his belief, shared by his editor, Elizaveta Svilova (who was also his wife), and his cinematographer, Mikhail Kaufman (his brother), that the true goal of cinema should be to present life as it is lived. To that end, the filmmakers offer a day-in-the-life portrait of a city from dawn until dusk, though they actually shot their footage in several cities, including Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. After an opening statement, there are no words in the film (neither voice-over nor titles), just dazzling imagery, kinetically edited, as a celebration of the modern city with a marked emphasis on its buildings and machinery. With music by the Alloy Orchestra after instructions by Dziga Vertov.

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