Man with a Movie Camera

Name: Man with a Movie Camera
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: May 12, 1929
Duration: 68 min
Rating: 96
Cast: Elizaveta Svilova, Mikhail Kaufman

1929

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Amkino Corporation | Release Date: May 12, 1929 | Not Rated

Starring: Elizaveta Svilova, Mikhail Kaufman

Summary: A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Director: Dziga Vertov

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 68 min

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Noel Murray

The film would be exciting to watch even completely silent, both because it’s a valuable record of Soviet city life at the end of the 1920s, and because it explodes with visual ideas. Read full review

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

The combustion engine gave humanity the new experience of speed; now the movie camera gave us a dizzying new speed of perception and creation. Read full review

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G. Allen Johnson

Excited with the possibilities of the relatively young film medium, Russia's Dziga Vertov took to the streets of Moscow, Odessa and Kiev to give us a portrait of an ever-changing world that is more essay than documentary. It's a 1929 silent film that added its punctuation in the lab - jump cuts, dissolves, split screens, etc. - to create an indelible work in cinema history. [13 Apr 2017, p.E8]

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Tom Huddleston

Vertov’s experimental essay proclaims its ‘complete separation from the language of theatre and literature’ in the opening titles. What follows is cinema in its purest form: movement, sensation, action and visual trickery. Read full review

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The Observer (UK) Jonathan Romney

This is an exuberant manifesto that celebrates the infinite possibilities of what cinema can be. Read full review

Jake Cole

The blatant staging and rich emotional undercurrent of Vertov’s documentary footage presage Werner Herzog’s ecstatic truth mantra, and was a far cry from the utilitarian social-realist mandate that would soon drain Soviet cinema of this experimental edge. Read full review

Mordaunt Hall

It is a disjointed array of scenes in which the producer, Dziga Vertoff, does not take into consideration the fact that the human eye fixes for a certain space of time that which holds the attention. Read full review

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