Man With a Movie Camera

• Context – post revolution• Propaganda – presentation of ideal soviet community• Lenin: importance of cinema in establishing socialism• Constructivism & Rodchenko as influence• Agit trains and newsreel• Other filmmakers: Kuleshov, Eisenstein, Pudovkin• Kuleshov effect• Vertov & Kino Eye• Cinematic achievements in film

Kino-Pravda checklist of essentials for a Kino-Eye

filmmaker:

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1. rapid means of transport2. highly sensitive film stock3. light handheld film cameras4. equally light lighting equipment5. a crew of super-swift cinema reporters (etc)

Experimentation

The film drama is the Opium of the people…down with Bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

—Dziga Vertov

Dynamic composition

The primacy of the camera

Man and machine in harmony

Comrades in both work and play – emphasis on the individual as part of a whole

The process of filmmaking

The act of spectating