''Man with the Movie Camera'' (''Chelovek s Kinoapparatom'') is an experimental 1929 silent film documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov. The film follows a cameraman around various cities, intercutting his footage with footage of him filming and footage of a woman editing, and includes a number of cinematic techniques such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme closeups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, and a self-reflexive storyline (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles). The film has an unabashedly art film bent and emphasizes that film can go ''anywhere'', for instance superimposing a shot of a cameraman setting up his camera atop a second, mountainous camera; or superimposing a cameraman inside a beer glass; or filming a woman getting out of bed and getting dressed; or even filming a different woman giving birth, the baby being taken away to be bathed. Vertov's message about the prevalence and unobtrusiveness of filming was not yet true--cameras might have been able to go anywhere, but not without being noticed; they were too large to be hidden easily, and too noisy to remain hidden anyway. To get footage using a hidden camera, Vertov and his brother Mikhail Kaufman had to distract the subject with something else even louder than the camera filming them. The film also features a few obvious stagings such as the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed (cameras at the time were fairly bulky and loud, and not surreptitious) and the shot of the chess pieces being swept to the center of the board (a shot which was spliced in backwards, causing the pieces to expand outward and stand into position). The film was criticized for both the stagings and its stark experimentation, possibly as a result of its director's frequent assailing of fiction film as a new "opiate of the masses." The film, originally released in 1929, was silent, and accompanied in theaters with live music. It has since been released a number of times with different soundtracks: One release, in 1996, had a new soundtrack performed by the Alloy Orchestra, based on notes left by Vertov. It incorporated sound effects such as sirens, babies crying, crowd noise, etc. In 2002, a version was released with a soundtrack performed by the British jazz and electronic outfit The Cinematic Orchestra. In the same year, a DVD edition by the British Film Institute had a score by Michael Nyman. 1929 films Documentary films Silent films
IMHO all film buffs should see this--but the newer version with Vertov's music is much better than the pre-1996 one with the other soundtrack. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 06:29 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC) It's bugging me about the paragraph I have on the cinema techniques. I know Vertov didn't originate all of these, and maybe not any of them; I just want to emphasize that the film was heavily experimental, and that these effects are not at all new, as many people today seem to think. Can anyone nail down the first known incidences of some of these effects--e.g. split screen, freeze frame, Dutch angle--or point me to where I can find out? Thanks, User:Koyaanis Qatsi ---- Wow, I didn't know about the 2002 version with the (yet newer) new soundtrack. I'll have to look for that one. I've seen the other two, and IMO the 2nd version with the soundtrack based in Vertov's notes is far superior. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 20:22 18 Jun 2003 (UTC) :I think the The Cinematic Orchestra version should be released on DVD in the next few weeks. You can probably get it/preorder via Ninja Tunes. By the way, I am not in anyway affilated with the label or band. User:Lexor 09:32 19 Jun 2003 (UTC) Bold text I think that it is amazing what the filmmaker do in 1929 without all the effects that we have now. Of course it's an art of his time Erm, isn't this actually called 'Man with a movie camera'? At least, that's the name on my bfi Michael Nyman DVD User:Rlongstaff :It's called both. My DVD has it "the," not that any DVD is the final authority. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 19:56, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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''Man with the Movie Camera'' (''Chelovek s Kinoapparatom'') is an experimental 1929 silent film documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov. The film follows a cameraman around various cities, intercutting his footage with footage of him filming and footage of a woman editing, and includes a number of cinematic techniques such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme closeups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, and a self-reflexive storyline (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles). The film has an unabashedly art film bent and emphasizes that film can go ''anywhere'', for instance superimposing a shot of a cameraman setting up his camera atop a second, mountainous camera; or superimposing a cameraman inside a beer glass; or filming a woman getting out of bed and getting dressed; or even filming a different woman giving birth, the baby being taken away to be bathed. Vertov's message about the prevalence and unobtrusiveness of filming was not yet true--cameras might have been able to go anywhere, but not without being noticed; they were too large to be hidden easily, and too noisy to remain hidden anyway. To get footage using a hidden camera, Vertov and his brother Mikhail Kaufman had to distract the subject with something else even louder than the camera filming them. The film also features a few obvious stagings such as the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed (cameras at the time were fairly bulky and loud, and not surreptitious) and the shot of the chess pieces being swept to the center of the board (a shot which was spliced in backwards, causing the pieces to expand outward and stand into position). The film was criticized for both the stagings and its stark experimentation, possibly as a result of its director's frequent assailing of fiction film as a new "opiate of the masses." The film, originally released in 1929, was silent, and accompanied in theaters with live music. It has since been released a number of times with different soundtracks: One release, in 1996, had a new soundtrack performed by the Alloy Orchestra, based on notes left by Vertov. It incorporated sound effects such as sirens, babies crying, crowd noise, etc. In 2002, a version was released with a soundtrack performed by the British jazz and electronic outfit The Cinematic Orchestra. In the same year, a DVD edition by the British Film Institute had a score by Michael Nyman. 1929 films Documentary films Silent films
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IMHO all film buffs should see this--but the newer version with Vertov's music is much better than the pre-1996 one with the other soundtrack. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 06:29 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC) It's bugging me about the paragraph I have on the cinema techniques. I know Vertov didn't originate all of these, and maybe not any of them; I just want to emphasize that the film was heavily experimental, and that these effects are not at all new, as many people today seem to think. Can anyone nail down the first known incidences of some of these effects--e.g. split screen, freeze frame, Dutch angle--or point me to where I can find out? Thanks, User:Koyaanis Qatsi ---- Wow, I didn't know about the 2002 version with the (yet newer) new soundtrack. I'll have to look for that one. I've seen the other two, and IMO the 2nd version with the soundtrack based in Vertov's notes is far superior. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 20:22 18 Jun 2003 (UTC) :I think the The Cinematic Orchestra version should be released on DVD in the next few weeks. You can probably get it/preorder via Ninja Tunes. By the way, I am not in anyway affilated with the label or band. User:Lexor 09:32 19 Jun 2003 (UTC) Bold text I think that it is amazing what the filmmaker do in 1929 without all the effects that we have now. Of course it's an art of his time Erm, isn't this actually called 'Man with a movie camera'? At least, that's the name on my bfi Michael Nyman DVD User:Rlongstaff :It's called both. My DVD has it "the," not that any DVD is the final authority. User:Koyaanis Qatsi 19:56, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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