Man With A Movie Camera
Yes, I am absolutely writing a post when I should be writing my paper. Whatever. At least it’s related! I’m hoping that by making a post about this it will get the wheels turning about writing four pages on it.
I’m writing a paper on this film from a film from 1928/9, by Dziga Vertov. The main concept of this film is the montage. Apparently, this film was made when production of films were highly censored and controlled by Soviet authorities. Films were meant to be easy to follow, and propaganda-esque in their meanings.
Vertov challenged these conventions through the creation of a film that used several short shots (1700 individuals shots to be exact), and cut them all together using editing that created a “dense, discontinuous style”. This movement in cinema was known as Soviet Montage, which used “complex editing that hoped would create predicatble reactions in audiences”.
Out of all the films that we watched in my History of Cinema classes this one was my favourite. I think it is because, today’s films are created in a very similar way, where shots are short and quick in order to keep the audience interested. I also really enjoyed the “tricks” that Vertov used to emphasize the “magic” potential of cinema. Enjoy the first twenty minutes of Dziga Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera! After the jump…
part 1
**the rest of the film can be found on Youtube or Google Video
PostScript: I had Nutella for the first time last night. I’M HOOKED.
(not me)
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