Celovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera)

Directed by
Dziga Vertov
Starring
Elizaveta Svilova, Mihail Kaufman
Duration
99 min.
Year
1929

Through special effects, visual associations, and rhyming images, the film achieves an osmosis between cinema and the raw life of a Soviet megalopolis—a fusion shaped and paced by the director’s experimental editing. It offers a multifaceted vision of reality and its intense whirlwind, with the camera slipping everywhere in a state of perpetual motion, seeking to capture everything "better than that imperfect instrument, the human eye" (Vertov).

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