Blu-ray
Dziga Vertov : the man with a movie camera : and other newly-restored works
Edition
Deluxe Blu-ray edition.
Languages
Silent, with and without Russian intertitles and musical accompaniment ; with subtitles in French or English.
Publication Information
Los Angeles, CA : Flicker Alley, [2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (279 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Added Uniform Title
Contains (work): Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Motion picture)
Contains (work): Kino-glaz (Motion picture)
Summary
"'I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it.' - Dziga Vertov ('Kino-Eye') These words, written in 1923 (only a year after Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North was released) reflect the Soviet pioneer's developing approach to cinema as an art form that shuns traditional or Western narrative in favor of images from real life. They lay the foundation for what would become the crux of Vertov's revolutionary, anti-bourgeois aesthetic wherein the camera is an extension of the human eye, capturing 'the chaos of visual phenomena filling the universe.' Over the next decade-and-a-half, Vertov would devote his life to the construction and organization of these raw images, his apotheosis being the landmark 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera. In it, he comes closest to realizing his theory of 'Kino-Eye,' creating a new, more ambitious and more significant picture than what the eye initially perceives. Now--thanks to the extraordinary restoration efforts of Lobster Films, Blackhawk Films Collection, EYE Film Institute, Cinémathèque de Toulouse, and the Centre National de la Cinématographie--Flicker Alley is able to present the four films featured on [this set]"--Container.
Notes
Compilation of films originally released 1924-1934.
Contents
- L'homme à la caméra : enregistrement sur pellicule en 6 bobines : extrait du Journal de bord d'un operateur de cinématographie = Man with a movie camera : a record on celluloid in 6 reels : an excerpt from The diary of a cameraman / Ėntuziazm : (Simfonii͡a Donbassa) = Enthusiasm : (Symphony of the Donbass) / Tri pesni o Lenine, o vozhde ugnetennykh vesgo mira = Three songs about Lenin, leader of the oppressed peoples of the world / Kino-glaz : na pervoĭ razvedke 1-ai͡a serii͡a t͡sikla "Zhiznʹ vrasplokh" = Kino eye on its first reconnaisance : first series of the cycle, "Tapestry of life" / 21-ai͡a Kino-pravda leninskai͡a : k godovshchine smerti, 21 i͡anv. 1924 g.
- 21 i͡anv. 1925 g. = 21st Kino pravda : to commemorate the death of Lenin, January 21, 1924-January 21, 1925