Title from container. Mikhail Kaufman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1929. Special features: audio commentary by film historian Adrian Martin; the life and times of Dziga Vertov, an interview with Ian Christie; Dziga Vertov, non-fiction film thing, a video essay by David Cairns.
Summary:
One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. It was Vertovâ‚‚s first full-length film, and it employs all the cinematic techniques at the directorâ‚‚s disposal, dissolves, split-screens, slow motion, and freeze-frames.
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