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Man With a Movie Camera
1929
Made in 1929, this unclassifiable film is the work of pioneering Soviet experimenter David Kaufman, whose pseudonym Dziga Vertov means “spinning top” – if you like, cinema’s original dizzy rascal. Man With a Movie Camera came top last year in Sight & Sound’s poll of greatest documentaries, and to this day it looks and feels like nothing else.
It announces itself in the opening cards as “an experiment in the cinematic transmission of visual phenomena… without intertitles… without a script… without sets, actors, etc” – pure cinema, in other words, and Vertov isn’t just boasting. The film is a kaleidoscopic evocation of life in several cities, notably a sunlit Odessa.
Man with a Movie Camera
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
- Year:
- 1929
- Runtime:
- 68 minutes
- Language:
- No Language
- Country:
- USSR
- Director:
- Dziga Vertov
- Screenwriter:
- Dziga Vertov
- Producer:
- Star Mishkel-Eneva
- Cast:
- Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
- Cinematographer:
- Mikhail Kaufman, Gleb Troyanski
- Editor:
- Elizaveta Svilova
This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
Man With a Movie Camera
1929
Made in 1929, this unclassifiable film is the work of pioneering Soviet experimenter David Kaufman, whose pseudonym Dziga Vertov means “spinning top” – if you like, cinema’s original dizzy rascal. Man With a Movie Camera came top last year in Sight & Sound’s poll of greatest documentaries, and to this day it looks and feels like nothing else.
It announces itself in the opening cards as “an experiment in the cinematic transmission of visual phenomena… without intertitles… without a script… without sets, actors, etc” – pure cinema, in other words, and Vertov isn’t just boasting. The film is a kaleidoscopic evocation of life in several cities, notably a sunlit Odessa.
Man with a Movie Camera
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
- Year:
- 1929
- Runtime:
- 68 minutes
- Language:
- No Language
- Country:
- USSR
- Director:
- Dziga Vertov
- Screenwriter:
- Dziga Vertov
- Producer:
- Star Mishkel-Eneva
- Cast:
- Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
- Cinematographer:
- Mikhail Kaufman, Gleb Troyanski
- Editor:
- Elizaveta Svilova