| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) : black and white |
| Summary |
A playful documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union. Man With a Movie Camera is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking. An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going with energetic lyricism. A member of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov used a variety of pioneering cinematic techniques to document the full spectrum of 1929 Soviet life - dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze frames - and produced a radical experiment that is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant. This release is features a new soundtrack composed by the renowned Michael Nyman , and performed by the Michael Nyman Band. Special Features: Three Songs about Lenin: a 1930s propoganda film by DzigaVertov, Original Theatrical Posters, Michael Nyman Score, Audio commentary by experimental filmmaker, Associate Professor (emeritus) Arthur Cantrill, co-editor of Cantrills Filmnotes. |
| Credits |
Writer and director, D. Vertov ; cameraman, M. Kaufman |
| Notes |
Silent film with musical accompaniment. English subtitles |
| SUBJECT |
USSR -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125858 -- 1917-
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Experimental films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954. writer
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Kaufman, Mikhail Abramovich, 1897-1980. cameraman
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Vertova-Svilova, E. I. (Elizaveta Ignatʹevna)
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Artfilms-Digital (Firm), distributor
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