Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929): Castle Cinema, 7.30pm
This is a Cine Real screening and enjoyment is guaranteed thanks to the pair that put together their presentations. Cine Real is one of the only film clubs in the UK to exclusively play films in their original 16mm format. Cine Real is a non-profit organisation which aims to unite film makers and enthusiasts in their appreciation of classic film.
Chicago Reader review:
Dziga Vertov's 1929 Russian film amounts to a catalog of all the tricks
the movies can perform. As a newsreel cameraman travels through a city
(actually an amalgam of Moscow and Odessa), Vertov transforms the images
captured by his camera through a kaleidoscope of slow motion,
superimposition, animation, and wild montage effects. Vertov's motives
were impeccably Marxist-Leninist—he wanted to expose the materialism
behind an illusionist medium—but his film set off a storm of debate
among his colleagues, who accused him of the bourgeois crime of
“impressionism.” The film's real influence did not emerge for another 40
years, when it was taken up by American structuralist filmmakers on one
side of the Atlantic and by French neoleftists on the other. The film
remains a fascinating souvenir, though its flourishes are now fairly
familiar.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is an extract.
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