SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 @ 7:00pm (Pacific)

“Dziga Vertov’s experimental silent documentary upends reality in ways that are still dizzying, thrilling and strangely sexy.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

The Man with a Movie Camera
(Chelovek s kinoapparatom)
Dziga Vertov
USSR, 1929
Judith Rosenburg on piano

Witty, sassy, and with an infectious joie de vivre, The Man with a Movie Camera demonstrates Dziga Vertov’s “kino-eye” theory, endowing the camera with the flexibility of the human eye and the associative powers of a poet’s brain. An ecstatic portrait of a city and its inhabitants (really three cities—Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa merged), it is a compendium of extravagant camera and editing techniques, forever commenting on itself and our own watching. Appropriately, the camera-hero takes a bow at the end.

“At once a Whitman-esque documentary-portrait of the Soviet people, a self-reflexive essay on cinematic representation, and an ode to the transformative power of human labor, this fantastically cross-referenced, cubo-kaleidoscopic city symphony took parallel action to the third—or fourth—dimension.” —J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Tickets at https://bampfa.org/event/man-movie-camera.

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