Russian Cinema Man with a Movie Camera A leader in the cinéma - TopicsExpress



          

Russian Cinema Man with a Movie Camera A leader in the cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking, and the nucleus of the Kinoks — espousing the rejection of staged film theatrics in order to embrace the “real” world — Dziga Vertov created a 1929 film that had no real dialogue, actors, or storyline. Instead, we are inundated with a variety of camera tricks and techniques in Vertov’s experimental movie that reveals 24 hours of everyday experiences in a Russian city. The events are framed within the context of industrialization — including filmmaking, which Vertov sought to conceptually transform from romantic to a machine-driven art form. The imagery and technique speaks to his industrial eye.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:56:22 +0000

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