Monday, 27 October 2008

The Man with the Movie Camera

"The Man with the Movie Camera" is a documentary by the Russian director Dziga Vertov from 1929. Though most movies at that time dealt with politics, this movie shows the urban life in various Soviet cities.

"This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposurefast motionslow motionfreeze framesjump cutssplit screensDutch angles, extreme close-upstracking shots, footage played backwards, animations and a self-reflexive style (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles)."



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