Description
Man with a Movie Camera is one of the major manifestos of the world cinema avant-garde. According to the aesthetic principles of Vertov, the film was not based on a script. In Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov implemented experiments that he carried out for many years and theoretical developments in cinematography and editing, turning the film into a film-making methodological guide for subsequent generations of directors. The camera of a talented cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman captures the motley life of Ukrainian megalopolises – Odesa, Kharkiv, and Kyiv – under New Economic Policy.
Shooting Man with a Movie Camera required greater effort than earlier “cine eye” work. It can be seen in the greater number of locations that were under observation, and the complexities of organization and technical operation during the shooting. Cutting the film was exceptionally stressful. Modifications in the editing were going on constantly.
This complex experiment […] rescues us from the paternalism of theatrical literature and sets us face to face with 100% cinematography and secondly, it contrasts sharply “life as itis” from the point of view of an eye equipped with a camera, the “cine eye”, and “life as it is” from the point of view of the less-than-ideal human eye. Dziga Vertov
The new soundtrack for the movie was created by Dj Derblaster (Ivan Moskalenko) – a famous Ukrainian DJ, musician, music producer, pioneer of Ukrainian club music and rave movement, a legend of national underground culture.
This release also includes the 1999 soundtrack of British electronic band In The Nursery, which works in musical styles of Industrial and Neoclassical Dark Wave.
Remastered version + new soundtrack
32 pages booklet (English, Ukrainian)
KOLO DZIGI Collection is the set of the best Ukrainian silent films, masterpieces of the world film classic, restored to the VUFKU Studios 90th anniversary in 2011-2012. Modern Ukrainian, Russian, German, British, Polish musicians who work in genres like electronics, jazz, and experimental music created new musical scores for each film.
2K Digital restoration of the films is implemented by the National Dovzhenko Film Studio
