film and architecture section: The Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, film and architecture apreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The Bartlett University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)

film index: 20

film: The Man with a Movie Camera
director: Dziga Vertov
writers: Dziga Vertov
production: USSR
release: January 8, 1929
playtime: 80 mins/ 68 mins
visual: BnW
Language: silent
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Genre: experimental, documentary
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size: 699 mb

Soundtrack album: there is a reproduction of old "The man with a Movie Camera" with new soundtracks in 2003, giving it a title of "The Cinematic Orchestra". to read and Download this 2003 version, click HERE

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Vertov's famous experimental film, with no storyline or dialogue/intertitles, records urban life in the Ukraine and other Soviet cities. Vertov’s aim was to create an authentically international absolute language of cinema, on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature. Vertov invents, deploys and develops a wide range of cinematic techniques resulting in a fast moving and enthralling film, which is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film.

This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and a self-reflexive style (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

imbd link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019760/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_a_Movie_Camera

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, film and architecture apreciation

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