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Man with a Movie Camera (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом (Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors by Soviet ...
Man with a Movie Camera (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, romanized: Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova. Kaufman also appears as the eponymous Man of the film.
Mar 21, 2021 · “Man With A Movie Camera” is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov. The film is about a man traveling around a city wi...
Jul 1, 2009 · The only continuing figure -- not a "character" -- is the Man With the Movie Camera. He uses an early hand-cracked model, smaller than the one Buster Keaton uses in "The Cameraman" (1928), although even that one is light enough to be balanced on the shoulder with its tripod.
Feb 17, 2021 · Startlingly modern, Man With A Movie Camera utilizes a groundbreaking style of rapid editing and incorporates innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing power and...
Man with a Movie Camera: Directed by Dziga Vertov. With Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova. A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
By making films to stir the masses, they hoped to change the world, and their most ambitious visual manifesto was Vertov’s final silent film, Man with a Movie Camera. Vertov’s polemical filmmaker persona has eclipsed more personal impressions of him.
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the editing of the film is documented.
As The Man with the Movie Camera begins, the cameraman climbs out of the “head” of the camera. The film then takes its viewer on a humorous, kaleidoscopic ride through Soviet cities while drawing parallels between the moviemaker and the factory laborer, and exposing the filmmaking process.
This innovative Russian documentary, no other has yet overcome, the technics and the artistry of camera composition in one single film. «Man with a Movie Camera» is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, deployed or developed, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens ...
