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The Man with the Movie Camera

Live Piano Accompaniment by Yakov Gubanov
Screening on Film
Directed by Dziga Vertov.
USSR, 1929, 35mm, black & white, silent, 80 min.

Truly an experimental documentary, Dziga Vertov's masterpiece exemplifies the montage aesthetic of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s through its kinetic juxtaposition of shots and sped-up and slowed-down motion. Using his own concept of the "kino eye"—the cinema 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.

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