| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (68 mins) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going, with energetic lyricism. A member of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov used a variety of pioneering cinematic techniques to document the full spectrum of 1929 Society life - dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze frames - and produced a radical experiment in film that is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant |
| Notes |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1929 |
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Special features: Original Russian Avante-Garde poster artwork ; Michael Nyman score ; Audio commentary by experimental filmmaker, Arthur Cantrill ; Three songs about Lenin |
| Credits |
Directed and written by Dziga Vertov ; cinematography by Mikhail Kaufman ; music by Michael Nyman |
| Audience |
Rated G |
| Notes |
DVD. Produced for Region 4, PAL |
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Silent |
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Available to Deakin staff and students only |
| Subject |
Silent films -- Soviet Union.
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Experimental films -- Soviet Union.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Author |
Vertov, Dziga, 1896-1954.
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