The Man with the Movie Camera
(Chelovek s kinoapparotom)

Live Piano Accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film

Directed by Dziga Vertov.
USSR, 1929, 35mm, black & white, silent, 80 min.

Dziga Vertov’s experimental masterpiece cannily deploys the montage aesthetic of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s through its kinetic juxtaposition of individual shots and its sped-up and slowed-down motion. Using his own concept of the “kino eye”—the cinematic eye that illuminates the real world as not ordinarily seen—Vertov creates a city symphony depicting a day in the life of an urban metropolis.