Time & Location
01 Mar 2025, 12:00 – 17:00
Megascreen, Bristol, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5TT, UK
About the Event
Saturday 1st March: Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Director: Dziga Vertov Cinematography: Mikhail Kaufman Music: Live Musical Accompaniment by John Sweeney USSR / 68mins / U
An extraordinary montage of urban Ukrainian and Russian life in 1929, showing the people of the city at work and at play and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov's first full-length film was met with bewilderment at first due to Vertov’s editing techniques of dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze-frames. Now it is recognised as one of the most radical films of Soviet cinema, and a major influence on Godard, Marker and others.
Man with a Movie Camera is an exhilarating, exciting and intellectually brilliant feature that was recently ranked 9th in the 2022 Sight and Sound Great Films of All Time poll.
It’s a great city-symphony: the ‘Kino-Eye’ turns the camera into the protagonist, providing an impressionistic, lyrical…