Not merely a cinematic portrait of a day in the life of a city, cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov's MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA is an experimental manifesto of vision. Controversial when it was created in 1929, the film still pulses with the unruly energy and innovation of Vertov's genius. Subverting and criticizing the conventions of .. Read more
| Director | Dziga Vertov |
|---|---|
| Genres | Documentary |
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Not merely a cinematic portrait of a day in the life of a city, cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov's MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA is an experimental manifesto of vision. Controversial when it was created in 1929, the film still pulses with the unruly energy and innovation of Vertov's genius. Subverting and criticizing the conventions of capitalist fiction filmmaking that he so despised, Vertov and his revolutionary Kino-Eye crew (including his wife as editor and his brother as cameraman--both of whom appear in the film) created a plethora of filmic devises in order to comment on vision, life, Marxism, and modernity. Differing film speeds, superimposition, evocative and manipulative editing, and rhythmic graphic composition all blend seamlessly in a magic show of life above and below the city. Shooting shops, traffic, children, coal miners, workers, human bodies, and nature, Vertov creates visual rhymes and graphic portraits of the structure of life and the explosion of perception. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA took part in the city symphony genre that was popular at the time (BERLIN: SYMPHONIE OF A GREAT CITY is another example) but transcended it in its critical distance, sheer innovation, and sublimely fluid vision of man, machine, and society.
| Director | Dziga Vertov |
|---|---|
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 10 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: Silent |
| Released | Production year: 1929 To Rent: DVD: 10 Jul 2000 |
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Man with an editing suite
This is a self confessed 'experiment in the language of film', as the opening credits/disclaimer/warning professes. It lacks plot, characters, and ... read more »
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A very curious experience...
Man With A Movie Camera has no plot, actors, or coherent structure...it is literally just many, many clips spliced and edited together in a range of fascinating... read more »
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Not for a Saturday night but good
Good to watch if you have an interest in film history and/or early 20th Century Soviet society - I'd like to know where some of the city locations were shot... read more »
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Something different
This film is surprisingly watchable even lacking a proper plot or characters or anything else you expect in a movie. An interesting watch but one for movie-... read more »
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