Director: Dziga Vertov
Year: 1929
A man carries a camera around filming various aspects of daily life in his city in the Soviet Union, Vertov seems to be one of the first to fully explore the basic visual effects available to a filmmaker via the filming itself and especially by experimenting with the editing of film.
Important film to see if you are a film fan, as you get a sense of just how early filmmakers were exploring the possibilities of the medium. Vertov not only experiments with angles, handheld, moving camera techniques, over and undercranking, but then with editing. In fact, the film shows us his experimentation and the process of editing, visually drawing comparisons between the lens of a camera with shades of a window and the eye and its eye-lids, and editing with textile weaving.
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