A man with a film camera shoots people, places, objects. The film camera is an actor in the very process of filming: in the air, underground, in the thick of things. The cinema eye, which observes, captures the slightest nuances, without giving an assessment, without following the script…
‘Man with a Movie Camera’ Vertov – a canonical film of the short era of silent Soviet montage avant-garde, crushed by the roller of Stalinism. An exciting and attractive example of the author’s experiment.
The chaos of emotions that excites even after decades. Accurate transmission of the ‘spirit of the time’ and its energy.
A film from the top ten most important and best films of all time, regularly updated by the world’s film critics.
The “barre” of the cinema eye, about the cinema eye, filmed by the cinema eye itself, and edited into a chopped-up abstract futuristic poem.
A symphonic avant-garde of radical filming, brazen emotional editing and animation.
A paroxysm of visual grotesque urbanism. A sensual kaleidoscope. Encyclopaedia of techniques.
A thing in itself. Endless material for research and discussion.
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film with Anton Mazurov, film historian, film curator, lecturer at the Higher School of Economics, and Alexey Loginov, historian of photography, art director of the Central Exhibition Centre Béton.
The ticket price for the film screening also includes a ticket to the exhibition ‘Alphabet. Soviet Photography of the 1920s-1930s’.