Brandon Bauer

I will be presenting Man With A Movie Camera this week at the Mulva Cultural Center as part of their Screen & Scholar Series!

Man with a Movie Camera is a Russian experimental silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov in 1929. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, employed or developed, such as multiple exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, reversed footage, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals.

Man with a Movie Camera has been interpreted as an optimistic work. Jonathan Romney of the Observer called it “an exuberant manifesto that celebrates the infinite possibilities of what cinema can be”. The film is now regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.

Join me at the Mulva Cultural Center on Thursday April 10th at 6:30 pm!