Description
Man With a Movie Camera / A film by Dziga Vertou / DVD Video
UPC 5035673005026
Playtime is 68 Minutes
Man With a Movie Camera is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, a montage of urban Russian life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was Vertov's first full-length film, and he used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze-frames- to produce a work that is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant.
This special edition DVD features a choice of three soundtracks to accompany the film:
A soundtrack composed and performed by the Alloy Orchestra, who have closely followed Vertov's notes on music to accompany the film.
A new score from In the Nursery, who successfully toured the UK with the film in 2007. Their score deploys the latest music technology to create a soundtrack that reflects Vertov's own progressive filmmaking techniques
A commentary by Yuri Tsivian, the leading historian of
Russian silent cinema. His provocative and stimulating account makes this masterpiece of documentary cinema accessible as never before.
USSR | 1929 | black and white | 68 minutes | silent with music store | DVD-5 Original aspect ratio 1.33:1
- Director Dziga Vertov
- Photography Mikhail Kaufman
- Assisting editor Elizaveta Svilova
