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.
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.
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