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| Festival Year |
Festival Section |
| 1995 |
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| Film Title |
CELOVEK S KINOAPPARATOM |
| Alternative Title 1 |
MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, THE |
| Alternative Title 2 |
UOMO CON LA MACCHINA DA PRESA, L' |
| Alternative Title 3 |
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| Country |
USSR |
| Release Date |
1929 |
| Production Co. |
VUFKU [Ukraina] |
| Director |
Vertov, Dziga |
| Format |
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Speed (fps) |
| 35mm |
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24 |
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| Footage |
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Time |
| 5994 ft. |
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64' |
| Archive Source |
George Eastman House |
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| Print Notes |
Titoli di testa in russo / Head titles in Russian |
| Other Information |
| Music scenario by Dziga Vertov, interpreted, arranged, and performed by the Alloy Orchestra. |
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| Program Notes |
The Man With the Movie Camera ranks among the icons of Soviet constructivist cinema: a dazzling monument to dynamism, body/machine aesthetics, and the utopia of a new society. Despite its reputation as a classic, it has been forgotten that Vertov himself wrote the music for the film -- yet he never saw it performed after the 1929 premiere! Our friends of Pordenone in Moscow have uncovered the manuscript in the State archives in Moscow; after having read it, we have invited the Alloy Orchestra (Sylvester, Lonesome) to bring back to life Vertov's visionary project. The result is an astonishing, twisted symphony of musique concrète, early radio broadcasts and popular tunes, a head-spinning aural experience for a film designed to celebrate the beauty of chaos. -PCU
Sound in The Man With the Movie Camera is more than musical illustration for visual images. In Dziga Vertov's Futurist vision, cinema would merge with radio to bring Proletarians of the world into touch across vast distances and national borders: as Vertov wrote in 1929, "The Man With the Movie Camera is moving from Kino-Eye to Radio-Eye." However, the film only achieves something like "radio eye" with a series of sound-related images superimposed on a loudspeaker, in a workers' club of the future. -NT -PCU -YT |
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