Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera Russian Chelovek s kinoapparatom, Ukrainian Liudyna z Kinoaparatom sometimes called A Man with a Movie Camera, The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man with the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Soviet director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.

The film has an unabashedly avantgarde style, and emphasizes that film can go anywhere. For instance, the film uses such scenes as superimposing a shot of a cameraman setting up his camera atop a second, mountainous camera, superimposing a cameraman inside a beer glass, filming a woman getting out of bed and getting dressed, even filming a woman giving birth, and the baby being taken away to be bathed.Vertovs message about the prevalence and unobtrusiveness of filming was not yet truecameras might have been able to go anywhere, but not without being noticed they were too large to be hidden easily, and too noisy to remain hidden anyway. To get footage using a hidden camera, Vertov and his brother Mikhail Kaufman the films coauthor had to distract the subject with something else even louder than the camera filming themcitation needed . ........

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