One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera is a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive.

Vertov’s first full-length film employs a variety of groundbreaking cinematic techniques—dissolves, split-screens, slow-motion, and freeze-frames—resulting in a work as exhilarating as it is intellectually brilliant. Restored by the British Film Institute, this edition of Man with a Movie Camera features an orchestral score composed and conducted by Michael Nyman (The Piano), first performed in 2002 at London’s Royal Festival Hall.