Wednesday | October 19, 2005 7:00 pm

The Man With a Movie Camera
(Chelovek s kinoapparatom)

Live Piano Accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film

Directed by Dziga Vertov.
USSR, 1928, 35mm, black & white, silent, 80 min.

Truly an experimental documentary, Vertov's masterpiece vividly exemplifies the montage aesthetic of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s, with its quick juxtaposition of shots and sped-up and slowed-down cinematography. Using his own concept of the "Kino Eye"—the cinema's eye, which illuminates the real world as not ordinarily seen—Vertov creates a vivid city symphony depicting an exuberant day in the life of his Moscow metropolis.

September 28 – December 14, 2005

Imagining the City

February 8–29, 2000

Mapping and Fashioning Space

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

Visions of a City, Or A Weekend in San Francisco