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.
Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid • USA • 1943
A flower on a sunny sidewalk. A woman in black enters an empty house, the record-player spinning, the telephone off the hook. Out the window, a shrouded figure strides out of view as the woman chases after her. Witness to herself, the woman embarks on a...
